Lab Director
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HeeSun Choi, PhD
Dr. Choi is an assistant professor in the Human Factors Program in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Texas Tech University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Human Factors and Applied Cognition at North Carolina State University. Prior to joining Texas Tech, she worked in the Division of Safety Research and the Center for Robotics Research at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Her research primarily focuses on safety issues related to attentional impairments and cognitive declines, with particular interests in the older adults and industry worker populations.
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Graduate Students
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Daxton Mitchell
Daxton Mitchell is a PhD student in the Experimental Psychology program within the Human Factors cluster. Daxton obtained a B.S. in Psychology from the University of North Texas. His research interests center around Virtual Reality (VR) and its applications to the realms of Human-Robot Interaction and Visual Attention. After completing his PhD, Daxton plans to either help develop the next generation of Virtual Reality headsets or use VR to assist in training workers across many domains.
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Kat Moffis
Kat Moffis received her BS in Psychology from the University of Idaho in 2020. She is interested in user experience, aging, and driving research. Kat is working towards her MS and Experimental Psychology PhD at Tech and plans to finish in 2025.
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Daniel Leibman
Daniel Leibman is a PhD student in the Applied Cognition and Safety lab. Formally from New Mexico, he graduated from New Mexico State University with a BA in Psychology and worked in both the PACMANe lab with Dr. Igor Dolgov, and the Visual Sciences and Memory lab with Dr. Michael Hout before attending Texas Tech University. His research interests include Wearable robotics and their cognitive effects, Human-Autonomy teams, Human Computer Interaction with non-traditional interfaces, and generally is focused around how we can utilize automation to augment human workers or make their work safer and more productive.
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Yves Valentin
Yves is a first-year PhD student. He was born and raised in Miami, Florida, and received a B.S. in psychology at UCF and worked in the ACAT lab under the guidance of Dr. Valerie Sims. His research interest focuses on Human-Robot interaction, wearable robots, industrial workforce safety, and aging. Yves is working towards his Experimental Psychology at Texas Tech and hopes to make an impact in the world in the future.
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Undergraduate Students
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Joseph Martinez
Joseph Martinez is from Houston, Texas, and currently a junior at Texas Tech where he is majoring in psychology with a minor in history. Joseph is particularly interested in cognition along with statistics and wants to gain experience in the psychology field within the Applied Cognition and Safety lab. Joseph joined the lab in 2021 Spring.
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Farjaad Azam since 2021 Fall
Shriya Satish since 2022 Spring
Jessa Bulman since 2022 Spring
Barbara Sopngwi (Lab undergraduate engineer)
Alumni
Undergraduate Students
Neiddy Rodriguez (August 2021 - May 2022)
Gabriel Warren (Summer 2021)
Julieanne Cherukara (August 2020 - April 2021)
Giang Nguyen (August 2020 - December 2020)
Hannah Agner (January 2020 - August 2020)
Andrew Chu (January 2020 - May 2020)
Gabriel Warren (Summer 2021)
Julieanne Cherukara (August 2020 - April 2021)
Giang Nguyen (August 2020 - December 2020)
Hannah Agner (January 2020 - August 2020)
Andrew Chu (January 2020 - May 2020)