Nathan Lau
Dr. Lau is an Associate Professor at the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. His primary research interests are human robot/AI interaction, user interface interface, and human performance assessment in safety-critical systems.
He received his BASc and PhD degrees from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2004 and 2012, respectively. Prior to joining the Virginia Tech, he was a Senior Scientist at the University of Virginia from 2012 to 2014, studying Human Factors in cyber security of remotely piloted aircrafts, artificial pancreas for adolescents, and human performance in nuclear power plant main control rooms. He conducted research at the OECD Halden Reactor Project, where he developed ecological displays for a full-scope nuclear power plant simulator and situation awareness measures for representative process control settings. He also worked as a human factors engineer at NuScale Power Inc. and interface designer at Acuite Advanced Process Graphics.