Opening Remarks

Human-Machine Teaming for Human-Centered Intelligent Machines

Nancy J. Cooke is a professor in Human Systems Engineering at the Polytechnic School, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.  She is also Senior Scientific Advisor for the Global Security Initiative’s Center for Human, AI, and Robot Teaming.  She received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from New Mexico State University in 1987.  Dr. Cooke is a Past President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and the past chair of the Board on Human Systems Integration at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Professor Cooke’s research interests include the study of individual and team cognition and its application to remotely piloted aircraft systems, human-robot teaming, and emergency response systems. She specializes in the development, application, and evaluation of methodologies to elicit and assess individual and team cognition. Her work is funded by DoD and has been widely published.

Machine-Mediated Teamwork

Malte Jung is an Associate Professor in Information Science at Cornell University and the Nancy H. ’62 and Philip M. ’62 Young Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. His research focuses on the intersections of teamwork, technology, and emotion. The goal of his research is to inform our basic understanding of technology supported teamwork as well as to inform how we design technology to support teamwork across a wide range of settings. He leads the Robots in Groups Lab, which seeks to contribute to our basic understanding of group dynamics and how group dynamics can be shaped by robots implicitly and by design.

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Human-Autonomy Teaming: Definitions, Concepts, and the Future

Tom O'Neill is Professor and Head of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and is the Arts-Engineering Chair in High Performance Teamwork and Engineering Education at the University of Calgary. He works across the full range of Industrial and Organizational Psychology topics with a passion for field work. This includes high-performance teamwork, leader effectiveness, flexible remote and hybrid work, human-AI teaming, strategy, safety, culture, conflict and conflict management, and assessment. He has published 100 peer-reviewed research articles and holds industry grants for preventing serious injuries and fatalities in Alberta’s heavy mining and construction industries.

Simulating Human Behaviors in Human-Autonomy Teams

Stefanos Nikolaidis is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California and leads the Interactive and Collaborative Autonomous Robotics Systems (ICAROS) lab. His research draws upon expertise on artificial intelligence, procedural content generation and quality diversity optimization and leads to end-to-end solutions that enable deployed robotic systems to act robustly when interacting with people in practical, real-world applications. Stefanos completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and received an MS from MIT, a MEng from the University of Tokyo and a BS from the National Technical University of Athens. Stefanos has also worked as a research associate at the University of Washington, as a research specialist at MIT and as a researcher at Square Enix in Tokyo. He was recognized with an NSF CAREER award in 2022 for his work on "Enhancing the Robustness of Human-Robot Interactions via Automatic Scenario Generation." 

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On investigating human-autonomy teaming in specific workplace contexts, such as healthcare and space. Panelists include Julia Badger (NASA), the Invited Speakers, and Eduardo Salas (Rice).

Moderated by Maha Khalid and Lila Berger, PhD Students

On investigating human-autonomy teaming in specific workplace contexts, such as healthcare and space. Along with Eduardo Salas (Rice) and the Invited Speakers, panelists include:

Julia Badger. Dr. Badger is the Autonomy and Vehicle Systems Manager (VSM) system manager for the Gateway program at NASA-Johnson Space Center.  She also serves as the Autonomous Systems Technical Discipline Lead for JSC and has served as the Robonaut Project Manager. She is responsible for the autonomous control system specification and design for the Gateway, as well as playing a leading role in driving autonomous systems technology research and development for human spaceflight.  Julia has a BS from Purdue, and an MS and PhD from Caltech, all in Mechanical Engineering.

Eric J. Thomas. Dr. Thomas is Director of the UT Houston-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety and is Associate Dean for Healthcare Quality. Since 1992 he has conducted research on patient safety and his work was heavily cited in the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report on medical error. Dr. Thomas’ current research focuses on diagnostic errors, measuring safety culture, measuring and improving teamwork, and the use of health information technology to improve quality and safety. In 2007 he received the John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Research from the national Quality Forum and Joint Commission. Dr. Thomas is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians.

Closing Remarks