Po-Yu (Frank) is a Ph.D. student in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech since 2021, he first enrolled in the graduate program as an MEng student in 2020. His primary research interest is teamwork in cybersecurity of cyber-physical systems (CPS).

Frank received his MENG degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2022, and his BS degree in Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in 2019. Frank is a basketball fan/player and occasionally a video gamer.

Shiyu Deng is a Ph.D. candidate at the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech since 2020. Her primary research interest is cognitive engineering with a focus on using eye tracking measures to assess human performance in healthcare.

Shiyu received her MS degree in Aviation and Aerospace Management from Purdue University in 2018, and BE degree in Transportation from Civil Aviation University of China in 2016. Starting from August 2018 to June 2020, she worked as an airport operations commander in Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport Co. Ltd. Shiyu is also an FAA certified aircraft dispatcher, she now wants to extend her interests in human machine interaction from the aviation industry to a broader domain. Shiyu enjoys outdoor activities, such as hiking, camping, and backpacking.

Hsiang-Wen (Gram) Hsing is a PhD student in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech since 2017. He is primarily interested in Virtual Reality (VR) in human-computer interaction research. He is currently working with Tianzi Wang to develop interactions in virtual environment to discover new ways to alleviate substance abuse.

Gram received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, in 2013. Gram later received his Master’s degree in Industrial Design from Tatung University, Taiwan, in 2017. His graduate thesis is titled “The Usability Study of Applying a Head-Mounted VR Display to a Driving Simulation System.” In 2015, Gram worked as a product manager for Kuani Gear Co. Gram is an avid sports fan and a strong supporter of all Pittsburgh sports team.

Yuzhou (David) Du is a Ph.D. student in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech since August 2024. His primary research interests are multi-modal assessment of clinical performance in healthcare simulations and human–AI interactions in safety-critical, multi-agent systems.

David received his M.S. in Engineering Design Innovation from Northwestern University in 2023 and his B.S. in Systems Engineering and Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021. Before his doctoral studies, he spent a year and a half as a UX researcher at Northwestern’s Center for Connected Learning & Computer-Based Modeling, leading user-centric design research for user interfaces for large language model. In his spare time, David enjoys watching and playing sports, sketching, gaming, and catching up on movies and TV shows.

Anirudh More is a is a Ph.D. student at the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech since 2019. His primary research interest is visualizing scheduling risk and work analysis. He is currently working on outage scheduling visualization.

Anirudh received his MS degree from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2018 and BS degree from the Department of Production Engineering at College of Engineering Pune, India, in 2016. In 2017 summer, he interned at Pittsburgh Glass Works as a Automation Engineer, and developed a huge interest in automation and human factors. He is an avid sports fan and a strong supporter of Real Madrid CF. He also enjoys sketching.

Jinwoo Oh is a Ph.D. student in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech since Spring 2023. He is interested in understanding people in-depth using various modern technologies and proposing new technologies based on that understanding.

Jinwoo received his Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University in 2018, and Bachelor's degree in Industrial and Management Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2016. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he worked as a research engineer in SK hynix memory semiconductor Inc. for 5 years. He loves to spend time brewing coffee, playing musical instruments and driving outside.