Thomas  B. Sheridan is Ford Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Aeronautics/Astronautics at MIT. He ran a lab called Human-Machine Systems. He served as president of both the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. He is a fellow of IEEE, HFES, IEA and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Justin Croyle has spent 17 years in industry as a safety engineer.  He holds a B.S. in Aerospace Studies and M.S. in Safety Science, both from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.  His safety engineering career has included work on spacecraft, missile systems, autonomous vehicles and robotics.  He is currently a Principal Functional Safety engineer at Amazon robotics, with a focus on mobile robots.  His work at Amazon has resulted in certified safety systems deployed in over 520,000 robots to date.

Professor Andrew Thatcher is Chair of Industrial/Organisational Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is the Chair of the HFES Social Impact Committee and a member of the HFE and sustainability Task Force of the HFES. He is Chair of the IEA’s Future of Work Task Force and an Editor of the journal ‘Ergonomics’. Hs area of research interest is HFE and sustainability, green ergonomics, and sustainable work systems.

Laura Pereira is the Exxaro Research Chair at the Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand and a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Laura is an interdisciplinary sustainability scientist, having been trained in ecology, law, zoology and human geography. She completed her DPhil in Geography at Oxford University in 2012, before undertaking post-doctoral fellowships in sustainability science at Harvard’s Kennedy School and under the Bioeconomy chair at the University of Cape Town. She has subsequently worked at Stellenbosch University, City University of London, and Utrecht University. She is interested in the interface between traditional knowledge and innovation, the role of futures techniques in enabling transformative change and developing innovative methods for knowledge co-production in Global South contexts. Laura was nominated to sit on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Task Force on scenarios and models and was previously a member of their expert group. She is also member of the FACCE-JPI Scientific Advisory Board and sits on the Advisory Committee of the MACSUR Science-Policy Knowledge Hub. She was one of the Chapter Lead Authors of the Africa Chapter for the IPBES Africa Regional Assessment and a Co-ordinating Lead Author for UN Environment’s GEO-6 report. She is also a member of the Earth Commission’s Working Group 4 on Transformations.

Dr. Dias is a physician-scientist and his research focuses on the application of cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning. wearable sensors, digital biomarkers and extended reality (XR) to assess and enhance clinicians' performance and improve patient safety in a variety of fields, including emergency medicine, critical care, surgery and space medicine. His research is funded by the NIH, AHRQ, NASA and DoD.

Dr. Dias is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Research and Innovation at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation | Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, MA, where he leads the Human Factors and Cognitive Engineering Lab.

Kapil Chalil Madathil is the Wilfred P. Tiencken Endowed Professor at Clemson University with expertise in human factors applied to the design and operation of human-machine systems. He has received over $24 million in research grants from various organizations including the U.S. National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, and National Institutes of Health. Additionally, he teaches courses on human factors and ergonomics and is the Director of the Center for Workforce Development. He holds several editorial positions, including Associate Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics and is a technical reviewer for 30 different journals.

Dr. Myrtede Alfred is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in industrial engineering from Clemson University in 2017, where she was a recipient of the SREB Dissertation Fellowship and Janine Bowen Graduate Fellowship. At Clemson, she earned several awards, including Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant and MLK Jr. Excellence in Service Award. As a human factors engineer, Professor Alfred focuses on the role of sociotechnical systems in clinical safety, including surgical instrument reprocessing, robotic-assisted surgery, anesthesia medication delivery, and retained foreign objects. She also investigates clinical systems' contributions to healthcare disparities, using the social determinants of health framework along with human factors and systems engineering approaches. Her research has important implications for improving clinical safety and reducing healthcare disparities, and her innovative approach makes her a valuable member of the academic community. Her research has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), and she was also awarded a HFES Anti-racism/Anti-bias seed grant.

Dr. Holden is a Professor, Dean’s Eminent Scholar, and the inaugural Chair of the Department of Health & Wellness Design at the Indiana University School of Public Health. He is also the Chief Healthcare Engineer of the IU Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science, and a Scientist and Venture Fellow in the Regenstrief Institute. He has authored over 150 articles, books, and book chapters, focusing on the design and evaluation of interventions in healthcare, such as technologies, systems redesign, and team-based models of care. Dr. Holden has been continuously funded by NIH, including three NIH R01s, R21, R25, and R44, as well as leading and participating in interdisciplinary teams. He has mentored eight NIH-funded K-awardees and a total of 17 who submitted or finished K awards, with a focus on mentoring underrepresented minorities and women in STEM. Additionally, he is a faculty member on two training grants (T15 and T32), leads an R25 training grant, has received formal mentor training, and has worked on research with nearly 40 Master’s, PhD, and postdoctoral learners.

Dr. Prashanth Rajivan is an assistant professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington, where his research focuses on the intersection of human factors, simulation modeling, and computer security. He received his Ph.D. in Human Systems Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University. Dr. Rajivan was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the University of Washington. Dr. Rajivan has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2022, and the best student paper award at the HFES annual conference in 2014 for his work on multi-agent models of teamwork in cyber defense. He is currently the chair of the cyber security technical group at HFES, co-chair for the 2022 USEC (Symposium of Usable Security and Privacy), and serves on the board of the Modeling and Simulation Society.

Dr. Edmond Ramly is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Family Medicine and Community Health and Affiliate Faculty in Industrial and Systems Engineering. His work improves healthcare quality and workflows in outpatient and community-based settings through Implementation Science and Human Factors. His research drives care that is both evidence-based and human-centered by balancing standardization and adaptation to local context. Contributions include the design, implementation, and scale up of systems interventions including BP Connect and Quit Connect to prevent cardiovascular disease, OASIS to reduce antibiotics over-prescribing, and WCCEAL for statewide data-driven quality improvement. He is currently developing novel methods to streamline how evidence-based care is implemented and studying the consequences of telehealth expansion for health disparities. Dr. Ramly has served as program chair and chair of the Macroergonomics Technical Group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and co-authored the AHRQ/NSF federal report on the intersection of industrial and systems engineering and health care.

Dr. Leia Stirling is an Associate Professor in Industrial and Operations Engineering and in Robotics at the University of Michigan, a Core Faculty in the Center for Ergonomics, an Affiliate Faculty in the U-M Space Institute, and the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering (COHSE) Director of Occupational Safety Engineering and Ergonomics. Her research group brings together methods from human factors, biomechanics, and robotics to understand the physical and cognitive interactions for goal-oriented human task performance and to support operational decision making that relies on manual task performance. These goals may include reducing musculoskeletal injury risks, supporting telehealth, and improving technology usability. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, NIOSH, Boeing, and the U.S. Army.

Dr. Maryam Zahabi is an assistant professor in the Wm Michael Barnes ’64 department of industrial and systems engineering at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on human performance modeling with applications in assistive technologies and surface transportation. She received her PhD in industrial and systems engineering from North Carolina State University in 2017. Dr. Zahabi’s research has received support from agencies including the NSF, DARPA, and U.S. DOT. She is also the recipient of the 2021 NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Zahabi has published over 35 journal papers in the human systems engineering area and serves an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems journal. 

Laura Critch is a Principal Consultant in Operations and Maintenance with Equinor. Laura supports user-centered design solutions and improving human and organizational performance in complex safety-critical operations. Her current work within the energy industry focuses on ensuring implementation of safety in design solutions and compliance towards Human Factors requirements and best practices. Laura received a Master of Science, specializing in Ergonomics from Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada and is a certified European Ergonomist.

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Steven Mallam is a Human Factors researcher with the Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland and Adjunct Associate Professor with the University of South-Eastern Norway. Steven’s research focuses on the analysis and optimization of complex socio-technical systems, primarily in maritime settings. Particularly, he is interested in enhancing individuals and teams through organizational strategies, training and design solutions. Steven received a PhD in Human Factors in 2016 from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Dr. Heather C. Lum is an assistant professor in human systems engineering within the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in applied experimental and human factors psychology. Her primary research interests focus on perceptions of technology, specifically the ways in which technology is impacting the way we interact with each other as humans. Other areas of interest include the use of psychophysiological measures such as eye tracking and vocal analyses to better determine and study the critical applied cognitive and experimental topics of interest such as spatial cognition, human-human, human-animal and human-robot team interactions. She has also turned her attention to the use of games and virtual/mixed environments for training and educational purposes. She is the director of the Virtual Environments and Cognitive Training Research (VECToR) lab. 

Dr. Mustafa Demir is an Assistant Research Professor in the Global Security Initiative and a Faculty Associate at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU). Dr. Demir received his Ph.D. in Simulation, Modeling, and Applied Cognitive Science with a focus on team coordination dynamics and team effectiveness in human-machine teaming (HMT) from ASU in the Spring of 2017. Under Dr. Nancy J. Cooke's supervision for the last 11 years, his research has been grounded in a human-systems engineering approach, and he seeks to optimize sociotechnical systems by understanding and developing more effective human-centered collaborative systems. Since 2012, Dr. Demir has published his academic work in various journals and conference proceedings in social and engineering sciences (h-index: 19). His specific interests include designing and developing HMT in various task contexts, advanced statistical modeling, quantum and dynamical systems modeling, team cognition, operations research, and technological innovation and econometrics. Dr. Demir is also a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2015. 

Dr. McCarthy, Sonalysts’ Vice President for Instructional System Development, has approximately 30 years of experience in advanced system development.  Jim has devoted most of his career to the development and evaluation of advanced training systems for the DoD, other Governmental agencies, and commercial clients.  He specializes in the development of intelligent tutoring systems, adaptive instructional systems, simulation-based instruction, and game-based learning.  

Richard Ball is Professor of Economics at Haverford College. His primary teaching areas are game theory and statistical methods, and he supervises several senior theses every year. His research has included theoretical papers on political economy and empirical work on development and social issues. He earned his B.A. at Williams College (self-designed major in cultural anthropology and African studies); his M.S. at Michigan State University (agricultural economics); and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley (agricultural and resource economics). Richard has studied and worked in Sierra Leone, Chad, Egypt and Côte d'Ivoire.

Norm Medeiros is Associate Librarian at Haverford College where he oversees the collections management and metadata services division of the libraries.  He also serves as the economics librarian, supporting the curricular and research interests of faculty, and working with students on retrieval, critical assessment, and management of scholarly and data resources.  With Haverford economist Richard Ball, Norm founded and serves as co-Director of Project TIER, an initiative that promotes principles and practices related to transparency and reproducibility in the research training of social scientists.

Daniel Herriges serves as Editor-in-Chief for Strong Towns, writing feature articles and speaking across the country on behalf of the organization. He has been a regular contributor to Strong Towns since 2015 and is also a founding member of the organization. Daniel has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota, with a concentration in Housing and Community Development. He grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, before moving west to the San Francisco Bay Area, and later east to Sarasota, Florida, where he lives with his wife, daughter, son, and too many pets.

Daniel’s obsession with maps began before he could read; a general fascination with cities and how they work was soon to follow. He can often be found exploring out-of-the-way neighborhoods (of his own town or another) on foot or bicycle. Daniel’s lifelong environmentalism can also be traced all the way back to age 4, when he yelled at his parents for stepping on weeds growing in sidewalk cracks.