Richard N. Landers, Ph.D., is the John P. Campbell Distinguished Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Minnesota and Principal Investigator of TNTLAB (Testing New Technologies in Learning, Assessment and Behavior). His academic research concerns the use of innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, games, and gamification to improve psychometric assessment, employee selection, adult learning, and research methods. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), American Psychological Association, and Association for Psychological Science, as well as President (2026-2027) of SIOP. He is the current editor of Technology, Mind, and Behavior, an interdisciplinary gold open access journal published by the American Psychological Association at the intersection of psychology and computer science. He is author of two textbooks and has developed two edited scholarly volumes. He has been featured in the popular press, including Forbes, Business Insider, and Popular Science, and he regularly consults as president of Landers Workforce Science LLC (https://landers.tech), primarily by auditing or advising on employee hiring systems incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning.
