Optimizing human-machine collaboration

Speakers

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  Dr. Maria Chiara Leva

  Lead of the Human Factors in Safety and Sustainability Research Group, TU Dublin

  Maria (PI in ESHI) is the Lead of the Human Factors in Safety and Sustainability Research Group in TU Dublin, the co-chair of the technical committee on Human Factors for the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), the chair of the Irish Ergonomics Society and co-chair of the Symposium on Human Mental Workload. In 2016 she was awarded a Female Founder Competitive Start Fund by the National Digital Research Centre and Enterprise Ireland for her Campus Company ‘Tosca Human Factors Solutions’. The company is a spin out of one of the EU project Dr Leva led as a PI. She currently holds a scientific advisory role in the business. Dr Leva has more than 60 publications on Human Factors (HF), Operational Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Science and Engineering Journals. She is a Lecturer in TU Dublin and visiting lecturer for Risk Assessment and Safety Management in the School of Engineering, associated PI in the Science and Technology in Advanced Manufacturing research centre and in the Centre for Innovative Human Systems in Trinity College Dublin.

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  Inês Filipa Fernandes Ramos

  Ph.D. student, University of Milan (UNIMI)

  Inês comes Portugal and holds a masters’ degree in Biomedical and Biophysics Engineering from the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon). She did a 1 year internship at EMBL Rome in the field of computational visual neuroscience, and now she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Milan (UNIMI), working in the ESR project 8 to identify reliable predictors of human performance in safety critical human-computer interactions, through the use of explainable deep learning techniques.

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  Dr. Ammar Abbas

  Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Dublin

  Ammar has a master’s degree in Mechatronics through the Erasmus Mundus program and a Ph.D. in Deep Reinforcement Learning under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship program. His objective is to improve the deficiencies of society with technology. His research interest starting from Mechatronic systems and structures converges to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is currently pursuing a postdoc in the collaborative intelligence for safety critical systems, a project funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.

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  Dr. Enrique Munoz De Escalona Fernandez

  Post-doc researcher of the Human Factors in Safety and Sustainability (HFISS) research group, Technological University Dublin

  Enrique is a Post-doc researcher of the Human Factors in Safety and Sustainability (HFISS) research group, Technological University Dublin (Ireland) in collaboration with Spanish Air Traffic Management Research Centre CRIDA A.I.E. Bachelor in Psychology (University of Granada, Spain, 2013); Master's degree in Ergonomics, (University of Lisbon, Portugal, 2016). PhD. in Social Sciences (University of Granada, Spain, 2021). Specialist in human factors, particularly in human mental workload and fatigue. He has worked as a researcher since 2015 in several national and international projects. I have been researcher of the Cognitive Ergonomics Group, Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Department of Experimental Psychology from 2015 to 2022. He has received an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Enterprise Fellowship to fund research into the development of a real-time mental workload model of Air Traffic Controllers based on behavioral measures, in collaboration with Technological University Dublin and CRIDA A.I.E.

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  Dr. Marisa Biondi

  Tobii Research Solutions Architect, Tobii

  Marisa has a Ph.D. in Psychological and Brain Sciences from Texas A&M University and used fNIRS and eye tracking to study the functional organization of the developing human brain.