Design Engineer of Product Group 3 R&D (HMI) at DENSO International America, Inc.
2012~ present
Focus of interest: Early-stage Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) evaluation; driver distraction/ inattention mitigation technique, automated vehicle HMI design.
- Designed and Conducted human factors studies with instrumented vehicles on a controlled testing track as the primary investigator.
- Lead collaborative research with University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).
- Organized a Gesture Interaction workshop in Automotive UI 2014
- Participate in Advanced Human Factors Evaluator for Automotive Distraction (AHEAD) consortium as the primary human factors specialist
Researcher of Human Machine Interface Group at General Motors Technical Center
2011~2012
Focus of interest: User-centered Human Machine Interface evaluation, advanced interaction research;
- Initiated and Completed a technical report for in-vehicle gesture interaction design
- Designed a scientific experiment plan to assess the usability and feasibility of features for a complex in-vehicle system.
Research assistant of ergonomics lab at NCSU
8/2007-10/2011
Focus of interest: driving behavior modeling with knowledge of driver situation awareness; impact of visual and cognitive distraction in driving
Specialties: Experiment design & Statistical analyses
- Familiar with parametric/non-parametric analysis, non-linear and multivariate analysis in research, and manage many other statistic skills
- software: R, SAS, JMP
User-centered design
- Expert in cognitive walk-through, hierarchical task analysis, heuristic evaluations, conceptual prototyping.
- Advanced human performance measurements
- Experienced in using eye trackers and driving simulations.