Program
Keynote Speakers
Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the U.S. Navy's first female fighter pilots. She is a Professor in the George Mason University Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science departments. She is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow, and recently served as the senior safety advisor to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Her research interests include the application of artificial intelligence in safety-critical systems, assured autonomy, human-systems engineering, and the ethical and social impact of technology.
Vernol Battiste brings over 35 years of research and development experience working on NASA research. Mr. Battiste is one of the founding members of the NASA-TLX development team and a former Co-PI for the FDDRL at NASA-ARC. He is currently a Senior Research Associate and Education and Outreach Manager for the San Jose State University Research Foundation at NASA Ames in the Human Autonomy Teaming (HAT) laboratory. Mr. Battiste has numerous honors and awards. In 2020, he was given a NASA Honor Award, being awarded the Equal Employment Opportunity Medal for his tireless efforts to provide research opportunities and employment to underrepresented professionals in NASA-relevant fields. Mr. Battiste has contributed to ground-breaking research in the areas of UAS detect and avoid, real-time messaging for the flight deck, single-pilot operations, and distributed air-ground traffic management, to name a few. His extraordinary contributions have led him to be designated as one of 50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science for 2004, and he received the Black Engineer of the Year Award in 2001. Mr. Battiste has extensive knowledge of human factors issues relating to the operation of manned and unmanned systems, human performance measurement, flight deck displays, ATC and pilot decision making; pilot training; human factors. He has published over 100 papers and scientific reports on these topics.
Cleotilde Gonzalez is a Research Professor with the Social and Decision Sciences Department and the Founding Director of the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. She has additional affiliations with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the Societal Computing program, and the Security and Privacy Institute at CMU. She is a lifetime Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is also a member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society. She is a Senior Editor for Topics in Cognitive Science, a Consulting Editor for Decision and for Psychological Review, and Associate Editor for the System Dynamics Review. She is also a member of editorial boards in multiple other journals including Cognitive Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, and others. She is widely published across many fields deriving from her contributions to Cognitive Science and her computational modeling work including the development of a theory of decisions from experience called Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT). She has been Principal or Co-Investigator on a wide range of multi-million and multi-year collaborative efforts with government and industry, including current efforts on Collaborative Research Alliances and Multi-University Research Initiative grants from the Army Research Laboratories and Army Research Office. She has mentored more than 30 post-doctoral fellows and doctoral students, many of whom have pursued successful careers in academia, government, and industry.
Practitioners’ Panel
The ISAP Practitioners’ Panel is a key feature of the Symposium. These panelists represent broad and important aspects of how Aviation Psychology contributes to flight safety and the advancement of aviation. The Panel moderator is Dr. Sherry Chappell.
Dr. Kathy Abbott is the US Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor for Flight Deck Human Factors, with over 40 years of work on human performance and human error. Dr. Abbott has led the integration of human engineering into FAA/international regulatory material and policies for flight guidance systems, avionics, all-weather operations, Required Navigation Performance, crew qualification, data communication, instrument procedure design criteria, electronic flight bags, electronic displays, organizational culture, design-related pilot error, flight crew alerting, manual flight operations, and other areas. She has been involved extensively in accident, incident, and other safety data analysis.
Dr. Abbott came to the FAA from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), where she was responsible for leading analytical, simulation, and flight studies with the specific objective of improving aviation safety and operational efficiency. She is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Member of the Livery of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots. She is a certificated private pilot, with familiarization training in several large transport aircraft. Dr. Abbott earned her B.S. in Mathematics and Information Science from Christopher Newport College, an M.S. in Computer Science from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University.
Dr. Igor Dolgov currently works as a Staff Human Factors Engineer at Joby Aviation, where he is responsible for flight deck human factors, passenger experience, and human-systems integration. He is an accomplished professional with a diverse background. In his previous role as the Lead Human Factors Engineer at Uber Elevate, he played an active role in shaping the Uber Copter and drone delivery projects.
Prior to joining industry, Dr. Dolgov was a tenured associate professor of Engineering Psychology at New Mexico State University, where he conducted NASA- and DoD-sponsored research in the areas of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), augmented reality, and human-machine interaction. With a transdisciplinary Ph.D. from Arizona State University and a B.S.E. in Computer Science along with a certificate in Robotics and Intelligent Systems from Princeton University, Dr. Dolgov has extensive knowledge and unique expertise in his field.
Dr. Brian Hilburn is Principal Consultant at the Center for Human Performance Research, CHPR (Netherlands and USA). He is also a consulting Human Factors Expert at MITRE’s Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD).
Formerly, he was Head of Human Factors for the Netherlands National Aerospace Lab (NLR), and VP of R&D for Engineering and Information Technology, Inc (EIT). Brian has a Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology, and has held adjunct professorships at Lund University, Sweden (School of Aviation), Technical University of Delft, Netherlands (Aerospace Engineering), and Shanghai Jao Tong University, China (Electrical Engineering).
Most of his research career has been in the areas of air traffic management, neuroergonomics, hybrid human-machine cognition, and automation design. He is also an active, instrument-rated pilot, and is almost ready to take his commercial checkride.
Dr. Barbara Holder is a Presidential Fellow at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and an Associate Professor in the School of Graduate Studies in the College of Aviation. She is responsible for growing the aviation applied human factors research capability of the university. She teaches graduate level courses in aviation human factors and human-centered design. Before joining ERAU, she worked at Honeywell Aerospace as a Technical Fellow, and prior to that, at Boeing as Associate Technical Fellow and Lead Scientist of Boeing’s Flight Deck Concept Center.
Dr. Holder has over 20 years of experience researching aviation safety and flight deck human factors. One of her current research programs investigates ways to reduce the risk of loss of control in flight during the go-around maneuver by designing the go-around procedures to direct pilot attention to appropriate flight path parameters. Another of her current research programs is investigating the cognitive consequences of flight deck automation, with the goal of identifying and representing the essential cognitive skills used by airline pilots while performing flight path management tasks.
Dr. Holder has served on numerous industry committees. Currently, she chairs the Subcommittee on Human Factors for the FAA’s Research, Engineering, and Development Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the FAA’s Air Carrier Training Aviation Rule Making Committee’s working group on Flight Path Management. Dr. Holder is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. She completed her Ph.D. and M.S. in Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, under the guidance of Professor Edwin Hutchins. For fun, Dr. Holder enjoys flying aerobatics with her husband in their Extra 300. Dr. Holder holds a Private Pilot’s License and is currently pursuing an instrument rating. She also enjoys sea kayaking, playing pickleball, and running.
Researcher Panel
Manager, Human-Systems Integration Branch
Federal Aviation Administration
William J. Hughes Technical Center
Atlantic City International Airport, NJ
Dr. Kenneth Allendoerfer has more than 25 years’ experience leading human factors research and development for the Federal Aviation Administration, where he serves as the manager of the Human-Systems Integration Branch at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Human factors, also known as ergonomics, is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of technology, processes, workplaces, and organizations. The main goal of human factors is to reduce human error and enhance the safety, productivity, and job satisfaction of people at work, especially in critical domains like aviation and medicine. The field of human factors is multidisciplinary, drawing upon psychology, engineering, computer science and informatics, physiology and neuroscience, and graphical and industrial design.
Dr. Allendoerfer’s work focuses on human factors of air traffic control, known as ATC. He has been involved with human factors activities related to the development of nearly every ATC system currently in use today. His research emphases are developing effective human-machine interfaces, helping users manage data-intensive environments, and improving the interactions between humans and highly automated systems.
Dr. Allendoerfer holds a B.A. in psychology from Carleton College, an M.A. in psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Ph.D. in information science and technology from Drexel University. He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and past president of the HFES South Jersey Chapter. Dr. Allendoerfer is also heavily involved with Aviation STEM education in southern New Jersey as a coach for Odyssey of the Mind, a science fair judge, and a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University-Camden.
Eric T. Chancey is a human factors psychologist in the Crew Systems and Aviation Operations Branch at NASA’s Langley Research Center, VA. Dr. Chancey received his Ph.D. in human factors psychology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, in 2016. Dr. Chancey’s research has focused on human-automation trust, virtual environment development, training in military settings, and human-autonomy teaming. Dr. Chancey currently leads the Human-Autonomy Teaming Foundational Research Activity under NASA’s Transformational Tools and Technologies (T3) Revolutionary Aviation Mobility (RAM) Subproject. Dr. Chancey can be contacted at: eric.t.chancey@nasa.gov
Joseph B. Lyons is a Principal Research Psychologist within the 711 Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Dr. Lyons received his PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, OH, in 2005. Some of Dr. Lyons’ research interests include human-machine trust, interpersonal trust, human factors, and influence. Dr. Lyons is an AFRL Fellow, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Fellow of the Society for Military Psychologists. Dr. Lyons can be contacted at: joseph.lyons.6@us.af.mil.
Contacts
Contact Esa Rantanen, ISAP 2023 Symposium Chair, for any questions.