Michael Jones, PhD, is the Kautz-Uible Professor of Economics and the Director of UC’s Cryptoeconomics Lab. He earned his PhD in economics from the University of Notre Dame and his BS in computer science from the University of Kentucky. His research has been published in Public Administration Review, Applied Economics Letters, Frontiers in Public Health, Economics of Education Review, the IZA Journal of Labor of Economics, and several other journals. As the director of the Cryptoeconomics Lab, he has overseen research projects of students with backgrounds in computer science, finance, economics, and other disciplines.