History
Human-Cyber Solutions, LLC was founded in 2013. The organization has teamed with others to deliver solutions to government and industry focusing predominately on defense- and health-related human-factors research.
Team
Dr. Patrick Craven's research focuses on applied human factors, particularly
in sensor-based human performance augmentation and healthcare applications. Prior
to founding the company, Dr. Craven was a senior research scientist in the
User-Centered Interfaces group at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Laboratories (LM ATL). Dr. Craven has also served as research faculty at Drexel University in the College of Computing and Informatics. He has performed extensive work in human-computer interaction, specifically
looking at human performance augmentation, system usability, formal system and
operator evaluation, and interface design. He has over a decade of professional
experience designing and evaluating human-technology interactions ranging from neurophysiological-based
measures of cognition to command and control, handheld, aircraft, and
intelligence analysis applications. He has expertise in formal evaluation
methods including usability investigation and system testing. He has served as Principal
Investigator and/or Evaluation Lead on over a dozen government-funded R&D
efforts. Dr. Craven is a Board
Certified Human Factors Professional who received a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania
State University in Psychology focusing on cognitive development and
human-computer interaction. He has a M.Sc. in Cognitive Science from the
University of Edinburgh, and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from Dartmouth
College.
Dr. Patrice (Polly) Tremoulet is an advisory board member and senior contract consultant, and she has over two decades of applied research and development experience designing intuitive human machine interfaces for complex, information-intensive systems of systems. She has spearheaded a broad range of advanced human-computer interaction research for enhanced human cognitive and collaborative activities at AT&T, Lucent Bell Laboratories, Rutgers University, Drexel University, and Lockheed Martin, where she established the Interaction Design and Engineering for Advanced Systems (IDEAS) process for producing computer systems that optimize human performance. Dr. Tremoulet has played important leadership roles in several DoD initiatives, including serving as Principal Investigator on the DARPA Augmented Cognition program — an effort that entailed using physiological data to assess individual cognitive state in real-time. Most recent research efforts have included developing intelligent information systems that use human data (e.g. medical images, vital signs, reaction times, verbal, numerical or abstract reasoning assessments, neurological measures, etc.) to support healthcare and/or to improve job performance by enabling more effective human-machine interaction. Dr. Tremoulet received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Rutgers University (2000), an M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford University (1991) and a B.S.E. in Operations Research from Princeton University (1989).
Duc Nguyen is a software developer and collaborator and has a over a decade of applied research and development in mobile computing, wireless ad hoc networks, and knowledge representation and reasoning, and enterprise software engineering and development. Mr. Nguyen is the lead developer of the Naval Research Laboratory's XMPP Overlay service, a mobile middleware that provides serverless chat capabilities. More recent work includes mHealth applications development for Android, enterprise web development, and data analytics. Mr. Nguyen holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from Drexel University (2010) and a B.S in Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon (2002).