Biography
Dr. Mat Kelly is a leading researcher specializing in digital preservation, personal web archiving, metadata, semantics, and information visualization. His academic career is distinguished by his contributions to the library science, digital humanities, and web archiving fields through the development and public release of numerous impactful open-source software packages, widely adopted by both researchers and practitioners. Recognized for his innovation and scholarly excellence, Dr. Kelly has received multiple Best Paper and Best Poster awards at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Among his many honors, he was awarded the inaugural Future Steward Innovation Award by the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) in collaboration with the Library of Congress (2012), as well as fellowships from both the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (2016) and the NASA Virginia Space Grant Consortium (2014). Dr. Kelly earned his BS in Computer Science from the University of Florida and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from Old Dominion University.
Research Areas
- Computer Security and Privacy
- Data Science
- Library & Information Science
Research Interests
Web archives, metadata, digital humanities, archival privacy, semantics, information visualization
Academic Distinctions
- PhD in Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- Master of Science in Computer Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL