Jason RYAN

Jason RYAN

Academic Background:

• 2011 - present • MIT, ESD: PhD student in Human-Systems Engineering
• 2009 - 2011 • MIT, AeroAstro: Meng in Aerospace Engineering
• 2003 - 2007 • University of Alabama: B.S. Aerospace Engineering

Work Experience:

• 2007 - 2009 • Aerotonomy Inc. • Lithia Springs, GA
  Aerospace Engineer

Research Domain:

Human-systems Engineering and Integration

Research Description:

Jason's research focuses on Human Supervisory Control Systems for monitoring complex systems that involve human labor. Jason's past research has focused on the design and validation of systems for overseeing Planning and Resource Allocation within complex, highly dynamic systems (namely, aircraft carriers). His research is now extending to include safety monitoring in these systems. Primarily, can predictive models of human behavior within the system be generated (given that worker A is in location 1, what is the probability he is at location 2 in 5 minutes?), how this can be correlated to "unsafe" conditions, and how this can be display to both high-level supervisors and the individual workers.

Publications:

Academic publications:

• Ryan, J.C., Banerjee, A.G., Cummings, M.L. and Roy, N., "Performance Comparison of Expert User Heuristics and ILP Performance in Planning Aircraft Carrier Operations (in progress)."to be submitted to the Journal of Heuristics: 2011.
• Ryan, J. C., "Investigating Possible Effects of UAVs on Aircraft Carrier Deck Crew Workload and Safety," Accepted for presentation at HSIS 2011, Alexandria VA, October 2011.
• Ryan, J.C., “Assessing the Performance of Human Automation Collaborative Planning Systems"
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  , S. M. Thesis, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA, 2011.
• Ryan, J.C., Cummings, M.L., Roy, N., Banerjee, A. and Schulte, A.S. “Designing an Interactive Local and Global Decision Support System for Aircraft Carrier Deck Scheduling"
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  , AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2011, St. Louis, MO, March 2011.

Media publications:

• MIT Homepage article, August 2nd, 2011:
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• Office of Naval Research Press Release, July 3rd, 2011: 
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• Article in Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine, June 2011: "*Pilot not included" 
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• MIT AeroAstro Department Annual, 2010-2011.

Online media:

• 5 minute demo video of the DCAP system:  Youtube
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  (long demo)

• 1.5 minute version: Youtube
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  (short demo)

• 1 minute video of the DCAP interface: Youtube
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  (GUI)