HFES Mentorship Committee Webinar: Panel Discussion: Career Development Grants in Academia

Dr. Nathan J. McNeese is the McQueen Quattlebaum Endowed Associate Professor of Human-Centered Computing, the Founding Director of the Clemson University Center for Human-AI Interaction, Collaboration, & Teaming, and the Founding Director of the Team Research Analytics in Computational Environments (TRACE) Research Group in the School of Computing at Clemson University. His current research interests span across human-AI teaming, human-centered AI, and the development/design of human-centered collaborative tools and systems.

Dr. Natalie Benda is an Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at Columbia University's School of Nursing, specializing in human factors engineering. Her program of research uses human-centered design to advance the inclusivity and equity of healthcare, with a special focus consumer information technology. Dr. Benda currently has a R00 award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to design an mHealth tool to support Black and Spanish-speaking Latina women in reporting and managing somatic and psychological postpartum symptoms.

Dr. Matthew Bolton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. Dr. Bolton studies why engineered systems fail and how to prevent failures through human-centered systems engineering, making him an expert in using formal, mathematical methods in human factors engineering to discover engineering oversights that lead to human behavior, error, and cognition contributing to failures.

Dr. Ji-Eun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research centers on designing personalized training and interventions that better accommodate individual differences. Toward achieving this, she uses neurophysiological sensor-based human performance modeling tools in high-risk work systems.

Dr. Brandon Pitts is an Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering and a Faculty Associate with the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. His research areas include human factors engineering, human-automation/AI interaction, cyber-human-physical systems, interface design, and gerontechnology in complex transportation and work environments, such as driving and aviation.

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.