Michael Dorneich
Iowa State University
Morrill Professor
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. 1999 M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. 1995 B. S., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. 1990
Thank you to everyone who nominated me for the HFES Executive Council Member-at-Large position. I am writing to humbly ask for your vote in the coming election.
At Iowa State University, I am a Morrill Professor, Directory or Research, and Director of Graduate Education. I teach HF/E courses in human-automation design, human-computer interaction, and product design. My research interests focus on creating joint adaptive human-machine systems that enable people to be effective in the complex and often stressful environments found in aviation, military, robotic, space, and education applications. Recent work focuses on human-autonomy teaming, extended reality for training, and cognitive assistants for space operations. Previously, I was a Principal Research Scientist in the Human Centered Systems department at Honeywell Laboratories. My professional career experience has been almost evenly divided between industry and academia. I hope to bring both perceptive to my work with the Council.
I have been an active member of the HFES society since the start of my professional career 25 years ago. My early work in the DARPA Augmented Cognition program was a part of the newly established Augmented Cognition Technical Group (TG). I have been very active in publishing his work in the Society, publishing 65 papers and serving on multiple panels in the conference since 2001. For the last 10 years, I have been an officer in the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (CEDM) TG and currently serve as CEDM TG Chair. As I complete my term as TG Chair, I am excited to step into a new role to help the Society address the challenges and opportunities.
I also have extensive professional experience in roles throughout the human factors and ergonomics field. I was the General Chair of the Digital Avionics System Conference (DASC) twice in the last four years. For both the CEDM TG and DASC, I led the program response to the challenges of Covid, including developing viable programs when both conferences went entirely virtual in 2020, and led the development of a hybrid format for DASC in 2021. Even today we grapple with how to effectively create virtual options to maintain participation amid uncertain funding and travel restrictions, and to broaden participation to a wider population of potential attendees. I have been an Associate Editor of IEEE Human-Machine Systems (and its precursor Systems, Man, and Cybernetics) for 20 years, and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making for five years. I helped found and am the Faculty Mentor for the HFES Student Chapter at Iowa State University.
My goal is to represent the concerns and ideas of the membership at the executive council level, and ensure that your inputs are considered at all levels. I am particularly interested in finding ways to grow membership and attract the newest generation of students, researchers, and practitioners to engage and put their mark on the Society.