People
Director
Erin K. Chiou, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. Recent service activities include National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine consensus study reports on The Science and Practice of Team Science (2025), Human-AI Teaming: State-of-the-Art and Research Needs (2021), Panel on Collaborating Responsibly; On Being a Scientist: An Updated and Online Guide to the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (2026), Panel on Human Factors Science at the Army Research Laboratory (2019), a workshop on justified AI confidence, and reviewing for National Academies publications here and there. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, an Editorial Board member for the Human-Machine Communication journal, and lead editor of a CRC Press book in press, “Advancements in Human Agent Teaming Research Infrastructure: Testbeds, Metrics, and Concepts.”
Chiou received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011-2016), concentrating in Human Factors and Ergonomics, minoring in Health Systems, and was fully funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and Graduate Engineering Research Scholars Program. Prior to graduate school, Chiou worked in various industries, including with a human factors and industrial design group at a Fortune 500 medical device company, and as a senior advisor at an international education startup with five employees. Chiou received her B.S. in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004-2008) where she spent one year as a fully funded Freeman Scholar Language Student at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
Recent Members
Dissertation chair/co-chair, thesis chair/co-chair, or sponsored research work:
Pouria Salehi
Ph.D. Candidate
Felix Gröner
Ph.D. Candidate
Monica Shi
Ph.D. Student
Myke Cohen
Ph.D. Student (Co-Chair)
Gabe Kaplan
Ph.D. Student (Co-Chair)
Rezvan Yousefi
Ph.D. Student (Co-Chair)
Isa Glass
Ph.D. Student (Co-Chair)
Walter Fazio
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Joshua Hamilton
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Taylor Foster
M.S. Student (Thesis Co-Chair)
Amy Spencer
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Wen Weng
M.S. Student (Supervisor)
Select Alumni
Dissertation chair/co-chair, thesis chair/co-chair, sponsored research work, undergraduate research:
Jessica Lee, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “Developing Responsivity as a Machine Quality: Adapting to Goal Contexts in Human-Machine Collaboration”
David Stinson, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “Do Interruption Types Matter: Investigating Performance Gains with Trust Advantages within Teams”
Glenn Lematta, Ph.D.
Dissertation Title: “Developing a Human-Machine Teaming Assessment Guide for Defense Acquisition”
Shawaiz Bhatti
Ph.D. Student (Supervisor)
Jason Henn
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Chi-Ping Hsiung
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Alexandra Shaw
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Natalie Celmer
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Madeline Niichel
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Nicholas Day
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Adam Wilkins
M.S. Student (Thesis)
Yesh Chala
M.S. Student (Supervisor)
Pei-Yu Tsai
M.S. Student (Supervisor)
Anna Pan
M.S. Student (Supervisor)
R.J. Curley
M.S. Student (Supervisor)
Gabriel A. León
M.S. Student (Supervisor)
Kyleigh Rahm
M.S. Student (Supervisor)
Cristina Martinez
M.S. Student (Supervisor)
Emily Summers
B.S. Student (Supervisor)
Kambíz Weaver Salazar
M.S. Student, Barrett Honors Student
Margaret Wong
M.S. Student, Barrett Honors Student
Jonah Galindez
Barrett Honors Student
Grady Gaugler
Barrett Honors Student
Emily Gilmore
Barrett Honors Student
Michaela Shope
Barrett Honors Student
Roquesan Luckett
FURI Student
Katelyn Schroll
FURI Student