Director, Bureau of Business Research at the IC² Institute
Matt Kammer-Kerwick is the director of the Bureau of Business Research at the IC² Institute. His work at the Institute centers around investigation of the “well-being economy”, which focuses on translational research and the creation of applied programs that promote a well-being economy with shared economic prosperity, resiliency, sustainability, and a growth model that is equitable from the outset. Kammer-Kerwick’s recent projects address issues within the complex sociological problem domains of healthcare delivery in rural and urban communities; the responsible development and deployment of human-centered AI in healthcare; preventing and disrupting exploitation of precarious workers; sexual misconduct and violence in community and academic settings; and an economic assessment of the potential impact of small modular nuclear reactors.
In addition to his roles at the IC² Institute, Matt is a research affiliate of the Population Research Center, and a lecturer in the Human Dimensions of Organizations program at UT. He is also an investigator on Good Systems: A UT Grand Challenge as part of the AI and the Future of Racial Justice Project, led by PI Craig Watkins. Previous work at the IC² Institute includes serving as a consulting research director for short term projects where his research focused on hierarchical Bayesian hazard models to predict customer churn in broadband markets, decision tree methods for identifying profitable mobile customers, and a segmentation analysis of communication channel usage behaviors among mobile customers.
Kammer-Kerwick is a co-principal investigator on projects with the Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (IDVSA) in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. He is also the principal investigator of the study Disrupting Exploitation and Trafficking in Labor Supply Networks: Convergence of Behavioral and Decision Science to Design Interventions (NSF 2039983), which is exploring the use of stochastic multi-actor network models, reinforcement learning algorithms, and agent-based models to assess and develop disruptive interventions for labor exploitation and trafficking. He is also the UT Austin principal investigator of Reducing Security Risks from the Intersectionality of Wildlife Trafficking and Biosafety from Zoonotic Pathogens in Africa’s Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area funded by DTRA BTRP and led by University of Maryland PI Meredith Gore.
Prior to his role at the IC² Institute, Kammer-Kerwick was a research consultant to industry for over 20 years and was president and founder of Visionary Research, Inc. His consulting practice focused on research to support clients’ strategic planning and product development processes, primarily in the information technology and health sciences sectors. He has a Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Systems from The University of Texas at Austin, a BS in Physics, and BSE in Systems Engineering.