Liz Lyons is 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. Her 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. She is a Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research award winner and a UC San Diego Graduate and Professional Student Association Faculty Teaching Award winner.
She also builds and supports programs that drive innovation and technology adoption. She directs the Wavemaker Lab, which trains founders and supports early-stage ventures, and co-leads the Poseidon Fellows program for students across campus who want to build or back high-impact companies. Through the Lab for Emerging Intelligence, she is 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.
