Biography:
Valerie L. Shalin, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology in the human factors area of the human factors/ and industrial/organizational psychology Ph.D. program at ÌÇÐÄÔ´´. She received her Ph.D. in learning, developmental, and cognitive psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She holds courtesy affiliations at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science, the Department of Psychology, and the AI Institute at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Shalin has been a frequently invited researcher at France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA-Est). Her scholarly record of over 150 papers in workplace cognition addresses technology design, training, and testing in domains including medicine, space exploration, and disaster response. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Office of Naval Research. She was the recipient of the 2016 Human Factors Prize for her work on Big Data.
