Emily Campion, a Tippie College of Business management researcher, has been selected to join Amazon’s prestigious scholarly research program designed to tackle some of the world’s toughest high-impact tech challenges faced by businesses.
Campion, associate professor of management and entrepreneurship, will be an Amazon Scholar and work with Amazon to enhance the global company’s senior leader career experiences using artificial intelligence.
Campion will bring her expertise in natural language processing to accurately and reliably measure employees’ job-related skills and abilities with the aim of placing workers in the best positions to thrive.
“Getting people in the right jobs that fit their knowledge, skills, abilities, and interests matters for entry-level workers through executive leadership,” Campion says. “Research shows that artificial intelligence systems that have been vetted according to rigorous scientific standards can help us do that.”
She is the first researcher from the University of Iowa to be selected for the program and the second in her field of research. She joins dozens of other scholars from such institutions as the University of Illinois, Georgia Tech University, Cornell University, and the Joint Quantum Institute.
Campion’s own research focuses on personnel selection and human resource management, especially how machine learning and natural language processing can improve hiring decisions while reducing employment discrimination. Her work also examines leadership, careers, employee well-being, and workplace behavior.
The project-based program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical and scientific challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research in their university jobs.
Scholars work with data provided by Amazon to help solve problems in such fields as artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, data science, economics, optimization, quantum computing, robotics, statistics, sustainability, operations research, environmental science, and robotics.
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