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Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members and Presenters
Pages 59-66

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... His research focuses on limited-capacity systems for holding information active in the mind and for exerting voluntary control over which aspects of the environment are fully encoded. He uses a combination of behavioral, electroencephalography, and functional magnetic resonance imaging methods to investigate the nature of limits in online memory and attention, as well as the neural processes that support these cognitive faculties.
From page 60...
... from Michigan State University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
From page 61...
... She served as chair for the National Academies' Decadal Summit Steering Committee. Her previous positions include academic vice-president and provost at the University of Waterloo; director of the Institute for Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, DC; William and Stephanie Sick dean of engineering at Rice University; head of the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory; professor of statistics at Kansas State University; and statistics program director at the National Science Foundation.
From page 62...
... scientific and technological integration through effective strategies, policies, and programs that ultimately allow the IC to close intelligence gaps. Prior to this position, he oversaw the Defense Intelligence Agency headquarters' research and development, technical collection, and analytic responsibilities in support of the nation's space and counterspace situational awareness.
From page 63...
... His research combines cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and human–computer interaction, with applications to information foraging, sensemaking in intelligence analysis, and digital health. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the National Academy of Education, the Association for Computing Machinery Computer–Human Interaction Academy, and the National Academy of Inventors.
From page 64...
... is an assistant professor and member of the founding faculty of the Department of Information Science, an affiliate professor of computer science, and a fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research lies at the intersection of information visualization, data science, and cognitive science; has been integrated into leading tools such as D3 and Tableau; and has received best paper awards at visualization conferences of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
From page 65...
... Prior to coming to NCSU, she worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses Science and Technology Policy Institute, Iowa State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Cowboy Programming Resources, and the National Institutes of Health. She received a Ph.D.


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