Monday
Emily Campion – University of Iowa
How a Workplace Activity Can Help Fights the Loneliness Epidemic
Emily Campion is an assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses largely on staffing procedures, how to leverage machine learning and natural language processing to improve these systems, and ways to mitigate employment discrimination. She also consults with companies and government agencies on assessing and improving personnel selection systems, evaluating and reducing employment discrimination, conducting job analyses, and assessing pay equity. She earned her B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University and her Ph.D. in Organization and Human Resources from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Tuesday
Jennifer Nahrgang – University of Iowa
Successful Side Hustle? Don’t Be A Jerk At Your Day Job
Jennifer D. Nahrgang is Professor and Henry B. Tippie Excellence Chair of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on leadership and teams, employee voice and engagement, and the future world of work. Her research has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Harvard Business Review.
Wednesday
Bryce Pyrah – University of Iowa
Slang Doesn’t Always Slap With Consumers
Bryce Pyrah is a PhD student in marketing at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa. His research focuses primarily on topics related to marketing for a better world. He will begin as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota starting in the Fall of 2025.
Thursday
Qihang Lin – University of Iowa
Using AI to Make AI Less Discriminatory
Qihang Lin is Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Business Analytics at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business. His research focuses on optimization and machine learning, with recent work addressing fairness in machine learning and decision-making. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013. Dr. Lin currently serves as the Faculty Director of the Part-Time Master of Business Analytics program.
Friday
Soogand Alavi – University of Iowa
What NFTs and Antiques Roadshow Have In Common
Soogand Alavi is an assistant professor of marketing in the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business. She studies emerging technologies such as NFTs and the economics of Blockchain-based marketplaces. She also studies online platforms and social media, around topics like online advertising, and algorithmic bias. She uses methods from Machine Learning and Causal Inference, Econometrics, and Unstructured Data Analysis in her research. She obtained her Ph.D. in Quantitative Marketing, at The University of Texas-Dallas and her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology.
