Goizueta Business School is excited to announce a $250,000 gift from JPMorganChase. The JPMorganChase Scholars fund will be distributed over the course of five years, and help to support the research and educational development of five outstanding junior faculty members at Goizueta.
The JPMorganChase Scholar Award is a new initiative which aims to invest in early-career business faculty to accelerate research and visibility in areas useful to finance and markets while strengthening industry–academia ties. This competitive award is available for qualifying assistant professors.
“The JPMorganChase Scholar Award strengthens our ability to support and attract outstanding faculty, especially in the emerging area of AI-driven research,” says Vice Dean for Faculty and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Finance Wei Jiang. “This funding stems from and feeds back into our industry connection, while deepening our mission of bridging theory and practice.”
The inaugural winner of this award is Assistant Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management Hancheng Cao, who joined Goizueta last summer from Microsoft. Though he obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford only in 2024, Cao already has a prolific publication and citation record.
Cao’s research focuses on how artificial intelligence is transforming work and how it can be designed in ways that remain responsible and human-centered. His work bridges empirical study and system design, examining how AI reshapes interaction, trust, and agency in everyday work settings and applying those insights to the development of tools that support feedback and decision-making in the workplace.
“This gift will directly support my research on how generative AI is reshaping work,” says Cao. “In particular, it will enable ongoing projects examining how AI tools change team structure, coordination, and workflows among knowledge workers, and how new mechanisms can be designed to better discern, evaluate, and surface high-quality innovations amid increasing volumes of AI-assisted output, such as in academic publications. The support will advance interdisciplinary research that combines large-scale empirical analysis with the development of computational systems to better understand and shape the future of work.”
Goizueta faculty leverage their expertise to tackle pressing challenges facing businesses, communities, and the world. Their research combines academic rigor with practical relevance, shaping how leaders think and act. Learn more about the faculty research advancing insight and impact at Goizueta.
