Current Members
Current Members
Director
Nathan Lau, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
Dr. Lau is an Associate Professor at the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. His primary research interests are human-automation interaction, human-machine interface, and human performance assessment in safety-critical systems.
He received his BASc and PhD degrees from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2004 and 2012, respectively. Prior to joining the Virginia Tech, he was a Senior Scientist at the University of Virginia from 2012 to 2014, studying Human Factors in cyber security of remotely piloted aircrafts, artificial pancreas for adolescents, and human performance in nuclear power plant main control rooms. He conducted research at the OECD Halden Reactor Project, where he developed ecological displays for a full-scope nuclear power plant simulator and situation awareness measures for representative process control settings. He also worked as a human factors engineer at NuScale Power Inc. and interface designer at Acuite Advanced Process Graphics.
PhD (by last name)
Po-Yu (Frank) Chen, MEng
PhD Candidate
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
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, MS
PhD Candidate
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
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, MS
PhD Candidate
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
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, MS
PhD Student
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
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, MS
PhD Candidate
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
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, MS
PhD Candidate
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
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.
Hao Wang, MS
PhD Candidate
Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech
Hao Wang is a Ph.D candidate in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering since 2016. His primary research interests is cyber situation awareness (CSA) and work domain analysis. He is also pursuing a MS degree in statistics, specifically bayesian analysis and regression.
Hao received his BS degrees in Bachelor Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Engineering from University of Michigan in 2012. He worked in Auditory Systems Laboratory at Virginia Tech as a graduate research assistant specializing in auditory situation awareness. In addition, he is an outdoor runner who runs 5 days per week. He also likes reading and watching videos, he is a volunteer in TED and has subtitled/written scripts for about 10 TED talks.
Masters
Alumni
PhD (by last name)
PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2022)
Post-graduation: Assistant Professor, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2023)
PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2023)
Post-graduation: Software engineer, General Motors, USA
Masters (by last name)
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2017)
Post-graduation: UX Researcher, Google Maps Automotive, USA
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2021)
Post-graduation: Human Factors Engineer, GE Hitachi
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2024)
Post-graduation: Human Factors Specialist, Sophic Synergists
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2021)
Post-graduation: Data Scientist, Revenue Analytics, Inc, USA
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2016)
Post-graduation: PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2017)
Post-graduation: PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2016)
Post-graduation: Human Factors Engineer, Ximedica, USA
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2016)
Post-graduation: Human Centered Design Associate, Lextant, USA
MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering (2019)
Post-graduation: User Experience Specialist, Mathworks, USA