Leo Alexander III

Leo Alexander III is an Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations and the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he serves as Principal Investigator of the TESTR Lab (Technology, Employee Selection, and Testing Research). His research examines personnel selection, adverse impact, psychometrics, and quantitative methodology, with a particular focus on how machine learning and algorithmic tools are transforming employee hiring, recruitment, and workplace assessment.

Dr. Alexander's work has been published in leading outlets including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, the International Journal of Selection and Assessment, and Industrial and Organizational Psychology. His lab conducts empirical research on subgroup differences in hiring algorithms, the validity of item-level versus scale-level prediction models, and the psychological and organizational effects of new selection technologies.

He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Rice University and his B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Sacramento. He can be reached at leoa2@illinois.edu.