Chambers Selected as 2024 Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

By SU Public Relations

SALISBURY, MD---Dr. Dustin Chambers, professor of economics in Salisbury University’s Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, has been selected as a 2024 Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. 

Chambers will research new ways to analyze government regulations using natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs) and deep learning methods during his project “Leveraging AI to Identify Small Business Regulations at the State and Local Levels.”  He is one of four funded in the institution’s inaugural Small Business Regulation Program. 

The Michael A. and Anita Paleologos Yagjian Visiting Fellowship program brings groups of scholars to the Hoover Institution to complete cutting-edge work analyzing the impact of state-level regulation on small business formation and success. Topics of study will include quantifying the cost of small business regulations to state economies, proposing options for regulatory reform and assessing the impact of regulations on human capital development. 

A member of SU’s faculty since 2004, Chambers teaches macroeconomics, business economics and economic development. He also is a Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

He has testified before the U.S. Senate’s subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management and the Pennsylvania Senate’s Majority Policy Committee; provided written testimony to the Texas House of Representatives’ Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee; and briefed staff from four state governors’ offices and lawmakers from 18 states.

Chambers earned his B.A. in economics from California State University, Fresno, in 1997, his M.A. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1998 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Riverside, in 2004.

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