People
Team
Updated October 2026.
Ben D. Sawyer, PhD
Director. Associate professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
Laboratory manager
Amy Giroux
Graduate students
William Wilkerson
MS student
Laboratory assistants
Alhondra Delgado
Chau Le
Jose Gonzalez
David Escobar
Ignacio Elorza
Driving simulator
Volunteers
Aditya Khadye
Laboratory assistant
Collaborators
- Brown University
- Chapman University
- Pomona College
- ReadWorks
- Royal Danish Academy
- Tufts University
- University of Arizona
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Northern Colorado
- University of Rhode Island
- University of Toronto Mississauga, Applied Perception and Psychophysics Laboratory
- World Education
Past members
Postdoctoral associates
Steven R. Clapp, PhD
2023–2025
Yiqi Wan, PhD
2021–2022
David B. Miller, PhD
2020–2022
Katherine Rahill, PhD
2019–2020
Research staff
Nilsu Atilgan, PhD
Senior research scientist, 2023–2025
Stephanie L. Day, PhD
Associate research scientist, 2021–2025
Hannah Faler
Lab manager, 2023–2025
Jannah Lherisson
Research assistant, 2023–2025
Jacopo Cirica
Programmer, 2023–2025
Caterina Azzarello
Researcher, 2023–2025
Kushas Khadka
Programmer, 2024
Catherine Bordeau
Content writer, 2023–2024
Abbey Banta
Academic writer, 2021–2024
Cara M. Cannon
Research assistant, 2022–2023
Reese Puckett
Research assistant, 2022
Eddy Nevarez
Technician, 2019–2020
Shiala Morales
Lab manager, 2019
Doctoral students
Md Mamunur Rashid
2020–2024
Shalah Dean Thomas
2021–2024
Erica Castilho Grao
2020–2023
Master’s and honors students
Poojitha Mutteneni
MS, 2023–2024
Betsy Guzman Laxton
MS, 2021–2023
Rachel V. Ball
Honors in the Major, 2020–2021
Undergraduates and student workers
Daniel Ocampo
2026
Micah Rittierodt
2026
Lou Vaughn
2026
Vince Floristal
2024–2025
Esat Boucaud
2020–2022
Arjun Mittha
2020–2022
Sarah Minion Barrientos
2020–2021
Dekai Rohlsen-Neal
2020–2021
Charlton Trezevant
2020–2021
Fola Adenola
2020–2021
Rebecca Casimir
2020–2021
Kavya Mittha
2020–2021
Siddarth Reddi
2020–2021
Davion Whyte
2020–2021
Juan Angarita
2020
Chloe Zastrow
2020
Mae Conuel
2020
Jennifer Larsen
2020
Lucho Manriquez
2019–2020
Priscilla Louis
2019–2020
Alexandra Figueroa Rodriguez
2019–2020
Delainey Strickland
2019–2020
Nicole Aranda
2019–2020
Mikayla Chu
2019–2020
Kyla Andrews
2019–2020
Aileen Pongnon
2019–2020
Bryan Jose Medina
2019–2020
Vincenzo Trujillo
2019–2020
Joseph Brandenburg
2019–2020
Ana Lopez
2019–2020
Parth Patel
2019–2020
Sincere Banks
2019
Jay Swami
2019
Megan Chin
2018–2019
Demetra Green
2018–2019