Elizabeth Lyons
I am the inaugural holder of the Don and Stacy Rosenberg Professorship
in Innovation and an Associate Professor of Management at UC San
Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy. My research is focused
on how innovation happens: how new technologies are commercialized and
adopted, how digitization and AI are changing work and learning, and
how incentives, coordination barriers, and inequality determine who
innovates and who benefits. I am a Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship
in Entrepreneurship Research award winner and a UC San Diego Graduate
and Professional Student Association Faculty Teaching Award winner.
I also build and support programs that drive innovation and technology
adoption. I direct the Wavemaker Lab, which trains founders and supports early-stage ventures, and
co-lead the Poseidon Fellows fellowship for students across campus who want to build or back high-impact
companies. Through the Lab for Emerging Intelligence, I am helping to build and deploy the SmartLearning Hub, an
instructor-centered AI tutoring platform currently being piloted in
community college, university, and high school courses.