Matt Beane does field research on work involving robots and AI to uncover systematic positive exceptions that we can use across the broader world of work. His award-winning research has been published in top management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review, and he has spoken on the Ted stage. He also took a two-year hiatus from his doctoral studies at MIT’s Sloan School of Management to help found and fund Humatics, a full-stack IoT startup. Beane is an assistant professor in the Technology Management Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a digital fellow with Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Institute for the Digital Economy.