I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine at the Paul Merage School of Business and the founder of the UC Irvine AI Lab. I am also affiliated with Stanford University. I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University housed within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard Business School, now known as the AI Institute.
My research examines the economic, social, and behavioral aspects of technology, especially artificial intelligence and open-source software, under the broader theme of innovation. I focus on how these technologies reshape work and health care, with the aim of better understanding their implications for workers, patients, and the strategic decisions of large, medium-sized, and entrepreneurial firms.
Artificial Intelligence, Open Source Software, and Digital Technology
AI Adoption and Productivity in Healthcare - NBER Version (w/ Erkmen Aslim and Haonan Yin)
The Generative AI Gender Puzzle (w/ Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Kevin Xu and Hannah Haliburton)
Generative AI and the Nature of Work - HBS Version, NBER Version (w/ Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng, and Kevin Xu) - R&R at Management Science
The Value of Open Source Software - HBS (w/ Frank Nagle and Yanuo Zhou)
Labor Competition and Open Innovation - Wharton (w/ Sam Boysel and Frank Nagle)
Analog Technology, Firm Campaigns, Preferences & Health
Vaccines at Work: Experimental Evidence from a Firm Campaign - IZA Version (w/ Adrian Chadi and Roberto Mosquera) - Management Science
Television, Health, and Happiness - NBER Version (w/ Adrian Chadi) - Journal of Public Economics
Fairness Preferences Revisited (w/ Yinjunjie Zhang, Raisa Sara, and Catherine Eckel) - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Overlabeling, NBER Version(w/ Zoey Chopra, Hsu-Hang Yeh, Elizabeth A. McAninch, and Pascal Geldsetzer)
Peer Pressure to Drink (w/ Bernd Leisen and Vanessa Mertins) - Under Review
Other
The Pro-Russian Conflict and its Impact on Stock Returns in Russia and the Ukraine (Matthias Neuenkirch) - International Economics and Economic Policy
Media
Advisor Perspectives, AI Governance Library, Axios, Bloomberg, Business-Insider, Charterworks, Evoknow, GitHub, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, HBS AI Institute, HBS Working Knowledge 1, HBS Working Knowledge 2 , Heise, IWB Blog, Joomla, Kitware, Licenseware, Matt Hartmann Podcast, Marginal Revolution, Medium, MIT Digital Initiative, MIT Sloan, Network Law Review, Scientific American, Simon Willison's Blog, Spotify, Sysdig, The Stack, The Software Report, Tidelift, Towards Data Science, Open Logistics Foundation, UC Irvine, Wikipedia, World Bank, Yahoo, Youtube
UC Irvine AI Mini Workshop. Organizer. Website here.
HBS Case Study. AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup
Microsoft Book Chapter. "The Uneven AI Revolution: Experience, Gender, and the New Nature of Work. Website for Book.
Mozilla Statement on Open Source AI. One of the Initial Signers
Ascona AI Principles. Signer
Stanford Survey. Informed Population Health Opinions (Expert Panel with AI responses)