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Connor Wurst |
Hi everyone! My name is Connor Wurst, I am really excited to see the work all of my fellow students have put together for their presentations as well as getting to know everyone. I am a first year Industrial and Systems Engineering PhD student with interests in cognitive ergonomics, decision making, and engineering ethics. I am currently working on various expert decision models in the Applied Cognitive Engineering Lab. I'll be moderating the first networking break (work from home tips and tricks) and hope you can all join. I can't wait to see you all this Saturday! |
Elliot Biltekoff |
I am a third year Ph.D. student working in the Formal Human Systems Laboratory at UB. My undergraduate studies at UB were in Cognitive Science with a focus in High Level Mental Processes. My current interests include Fuzzy Logic, Human Centric Computing, and Ethical Decision Making. I am the current president of UB's HFES chapter and am excited to welcome all presenters, panelists, and attendees alike to this year's IUW conference! I will be presenting a lecture as well as helping to facilitate some sessions at IUW21. |
Meghan Donahue |
I’m Meghan and I’m thrilled you are joining IUW this year. Make sure to check out the networking coffee break session where you get to break out of form and enjoy networking for a few minutes to meet the colleagues who will be defining the field along with you over the next 20-50 years. I’m a third year PhD candidate. My research passion is advancing social equity programs through research to drive best practices in their operation. I’m currently applying this to people with disabilities in the Vocational Rehabilitation program to see what services work best to improve different employment outcome measurements and how those services interact and amplify their collective effect on the employment outcome measurements. I chose this population because for the 9 years prior to coming to UB, I worked as a clinical rehabilitation engineer and provided accommodations to people with disabilities who were either in an acute rehabilitation hospital program or a vocational rehabilitation consumer. I’m just about to defend my proposal and have a goal to finish writing my dissertation by Christmas. I can’t wait to meet you Saturday! |
Qian Zhang |
My name is Qian (pronounce like Chin). I am so excited and cannot wait to see students with the same passion for human factors and share their latest researchers. I am a 4th year PhD candidate focusing on human-robot collaboration (HRC), workload assessment, psychophysiology and occupational safety. I am currently working on my dissertation, which is about applying facial feature tracking in real-time workload assessment under HRC scenario. I will present in the first lecture session, be the cohost of the career panel in the morning, and networking event about social strategies in the afternoon. Sounds a lot of fun! See you all this Saturday! |
Su Shen |
Hello! My name is Su Shen and I am very excited to see our first virtual meeting is really happening! I am a second-year Ph.D. student and currently working in the Applied Cognitive Ergonomics Lab with interests in the field of human information processing, especially in the automobile industry. On Saturday, I will be moderating the second networking break (After graduation, I want to...). Looking forward to chatting with you and hearing all your wonderful thoughts at this session! |
Pengyuan Wan |
Thanks for coming to this page. Welcome and thanks for coming to IUW2021. My name is Pengyuan Wan, one of the platform committees to provide maintenance for this IUW webpage and room running. Hopefully, the full experience of tasks before and on your IUW day is fluent. I'm a second-year master's student and conducting researches about human error interventions in the Formal Human Systems Lab. I'm pretty interesting about how to make a task on interface better and the related UX optimization. Thus, if you have any feedback about improving the IUW, I will be happy to hear and contribute the human factor feedback into a guiding document. |
Huei-Yen “Winnie” Chen |
Dr. Huei-Yen “Winnie” Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo, where she directs the Applied Cognitive Engineering Lab and is a member of the Center for Cognitive Science and the ‘Team Alice’ interdisciplinary research team on inappropriate polypharmacy. Her research goals are to understand and promote safer and more effective human-machine interactions in dynamic, complex systems such as transportation and healthcare. She received her PhD in human factors engineering from the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. |