Kayla Schwoerer, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY. She earned her Ph.D. at Rutgers University-Newark’s School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) in 2022, a Master of Public Administration from Arizona State University (2016), and a B.A. in Sociology from Texas Tech University (2012). 

Dr. Schwoerer’s research focuses broadly on public and nonprofit management, with a particular focus on issues related to digital technologies and citizen-state interactions from a behavioral science perspective. Current and ongoing research projects include: investigating individual-level perceptions of the use of AI and algorithmic systems in the public sector, including impacts of algorithmic transparency and accountability mechanisms; usability attributes of open government data and impacts on open data use; and the role of UX design principles on digital citizen-state interactions.