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Steven Landry, Ph.D.
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Bio
Steven Landry is a Ph. D. student in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, concentrating in human-machine systems and minoring in cognitive science. He arrived here in Atlanta after completing is Master's in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has over 2,000 heavy jet flight hours as a C-141B pilot with the U.S. Air Force. His general research interests are aviation human factors, human cognition, and performance in complex systems. Specifically, he is interested in human-computer interfaces for complex systems, aviation alerting systems, simulation, cognitive engineering, models of human behavior in complex systems, procedures in socio-technical systems, judgment and decision-making, mental representations, cognitive grouping, theories of memory, and visual perception and eye tracking.
Education
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1987
M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
Ph.D., 2004, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Work Experience
USAF Student Pilot, 1988 - 1989
USAF C-141B Pilot, Instructor, and Flight Examiner 1989 - 1996
Research assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 - 1999
Research assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999 - 2002
Research engineer, NASA-Ames, 2002 - present