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DWH Project Funding

$75,000

Known Leveraged Funding

$0

Project Description

Dr. Ranjana Mehta is an associate professor in the Wm Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She is a leading expert in human-systems engineering, specializing in neuroergonomics, where she pioneered novel brain-behavior imaging methodologies to understand and assess multifaceted causes and consequences of operator fatigue in the wild. She adopts this paradigm to drive empirical and translational scientific efforts towards understanding, monitoring, and mitigating human-technology interaction elements of systemic risks in safety-critical environments (e.g., emergency response, offshore energy). Her scholarly contributions include 127 peer-reviewed publications, 8 book chapters, international keynote/plenaries, and invitations to serve on governmental and industry committees (e.g, Center for Offshore Safety Fatigue Risk Management Work Group). Her research on understanding and mitigating fatigue and stress-related variability in worker health and safety has been funded by the NIH, NSF, NIOSH, and the NASEM Gulf Research Program. Dr. Mehta received the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 2019 Woman of the Year Award, 2019 Creativeness in Ergonomics Practitioner of the Year Award by the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE), and the 2017 HFES William C. Howell Young Investigator Award, and her students have received best paper/poster awards at HFES and IISE conferences. She serves as an associate editor of several human factors and ergonomics journals and is an elected Executive Council Member of HFES and Chair of the HFES WOMAN group. Dr. Mehta earned her Ph.D. and MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.