I study how people think and decide when the stakes are high and the technology is new.
My research is applied: I care about findings that hold up outside a lab and are useful to people doing real jobs — from attention and distraction to how AI changes performance on demanding tasks.
Background
Research Psychologist
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Studying how AI affects cognitive performance in operational settings.
Applied research in driving safety
Florida State University & Florida DOT
Improving older-adult driving safety with field studies, driving simulators, and eye-tracking.
Postdoctoral research
University of Notre Dame
Visual attention and inattentional blindness.
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology
Florida State University
Attention, distraction, and sustained performance.
Work featured in
The New York Times · Harvard Business Review · The Atlantic · Forbes — among others.