I am an assistant professor in the Integrated Systems Engineering department at the Ohio State University (OSU) with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. My research interests evolve around operations of heterogeneous multi-agent systems in naturalistic, high-complexity environments. This includes research on human-AI/robot teaming (HART) and technology-supported human-human coordination and collaboration to improve the safety and resilience of high-stakes operations. This research contributes to a variety of domains of practice, such as air traffic management, spaceflight operations, smart mobility, and disaster response operations.

I lead a group of graduate and undergraduate students as part of the Cognitive Systems Engineering Lab (CSEL). See the Research tab for an overview of specific (past and current) projects that my students and I work(ed) on. An overview of our publications can be found here.

I teach several courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These courses are open to ISE/MAE students and students from other departments and majors. I encourage anyone interested in systems integration of human and AI/robotic capabilities to sign up for these courses. More courses, also ones offered by my colleagues on similar topics, can be found on the CSEL course page.

I am an active member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

News

• September 2024: Abigail Post won best student paper award with the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making Technical Group at HFES!
• August 2024: Abigail passed her candidacy exam!
• July 2024: Our work on using computational modeling and simulation to analyze communication strategies was published in the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
• April 2024: My students presented their research at Ohio’s Advanced Air Mobility Symposium
• November 2023: Abhinay presented during the graduate colloquium on his dissertation research titled “Building Safe and Efficient Joint Cognitive Systems Using Modeling and Simulation”!
• October 2023: Awarded a new research grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on “Pilot Interactions with Advanced Flight Deck Technologies”!
• October 2023: PhD student Connor Kannally presented a paper at the Human Factors and Ergonomics’ Annual Meeting in Washington DC
• October 2023: I gave a seminar at Rutgers University Department of Industrial Systems Engineering
• August 2023: We received a NASA Phase-2 SBIR award for our research with Mosaic ATM on Advanced Air Mobility
• July 2023: I was a speaker at 2023’s AIAA Intelligent Systems workshop
• May 2023: Two of my graduate students, Connor and Abhinay, were awarded a University Student Research Challenge grant from NASA
• May 2023: I was a speaker at the FAA’s “New and Emerging Aviation Technologies” seminar series
• May 2023: Abhinay presented his research at the International Symposium on Aviation Psychology and was selected as a finalist in the Stanley Roscoe Best Student Paper competition!
• April 2023: Abhinay passed his candidacy exam
• April 2023: Jacob successfully defended his MS thesis on “Evaluating Team Coordination Strategies and Performance Outcomes in Human-Robot Joint Activity”
• April 2023: Renske successfully defended her MS thesis on “The Development of Visual Aids and Design Processes to Support Safety Assessments of Complex Automated Systems”
• February 2023: I received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award
• December 2022: MS student Katie successfully defended her MS thesis on “Graph-Theoretical Design and Evaluation of Proactive Robotic Teammates”
• November 2022: MS student Jacob published a journal article about his work on Autonomous Flight Safety Systems in space operations
• October 2022: The lab presented two papers at the Human Factors and Ergonomics’ Annual Meeting in Atlanta
• September 2022: Awarded a new research project with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• September 2022: Manuscript to IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems was accepted for publication
• September 2022: Awarded a new NASA research project with Mosaic ATM on Advanced Air Mobility
• August 2022: MS student Stephanie successfully defended her MS thesis on “Supporting Resilience in Distributed Work Systems through Modeling Adaptive Capacity”
• July 2022: MS student Renske presented our work at the AIAA Aviation Forum and Exposition in Chicago.
• April 2022: Article on teamwork metrics for human-robot teams was published in ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
• April 2022: My students presented their research at Ohio’s Advanced Air Mobility Symposium
• February 2022: I was elected as program chair for the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making technical group at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• January 2022: I presented a paper at the AIAA SciTech Forum in San Diego
• November 2021: I gave an invited talk at the Ohio Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
• November 2021: I gave a seminar at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• November 2021: Ph.D. student Abhinay and MS student Renske presented their work on modeling coordination in advanced air mobility systems at Ohio State’s TDAI Fall Forum.
• October 2021: MS students Jacob and Katie both successfully presented papers at the HFES Annual Meeting in Baltimore.