Biography

Paul D. Bliese is the Department Chair and Jeff B. Bates Chaired Professor in the Management Department at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. He received a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. After graduate school, he worked for 22 years at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and retired as a Colonel. Throughout his career, Dr. Bliese has led efforts to use statistical methods to answer complex organizational problems and advance theory and practice. He developed and maintains the multilevel package for R, and has published in a variety of journals to include the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Management, and Organizational Research Methods. He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology from 2010 to 2017 and as the Editor in Chief for Organizational Research Methods from 2017 to 2021. In 2024 he began a new role as the first Deputy Editor for Research Methods for the Academy of Management Journal.

Biography

Fred Oswald is an industrial-organizational psychologist and current Chair of the Board on Human Systems Integration (BOHSI) at the National Academies, where they recently published a highly downloaded report, Human-AI Teaming: State of the Art and Research Needs (Mica Endsley, Chair). He is a current Member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) which advises the President and the Secretary of Commerce on a wide range of topics relevant to AI and national prosperity. With consistent PI and co-PI funding from NSF, NIH, and other agencies, his core research addresses the role of AI and machine learning in work and workforce settings.