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Mike Byrne's Curriculum Vitae, the on-line version, minus publication information. Warning: not always entirely up-to-date.

Education

Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996. Dissertation title: A Computational Theory of Working Memory: Speed Parallelism, Activation, and Noise.
M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. Non-thesis.
M.S. in Experimental Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. Thesis title: Systematic procedural error as a result of interaction between working memory demand and task structure.
B.S. in Engineering (Magna Cum Laude), University of Michigan, 1991.
B.A. in Psychology (High Distinction), University of Michigan, 1991.

External Funding

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (through Wyle Laboratories), #T72332, "Literature Review on Modeling and Simulation for Habitat/Vehicle Design and Assessment." Sole PI, $28,132 from 11/15/12 to 04/30/13.

National Institute of Standards and Technology grant #70NANB12H215, "Extending ACT-R for Typing on Mobile Devices." Sole PI, $118,787 from 10/1/2012 to 9/30/2014.

National Institute of Standards and Technology grant #60NANB12D249, "Usability Assessment of e2e Voting Systems." Co-PI. $198,296 from 09/01/12 to 08/31/14. National Institute of Standards and Technology contract #SB1341-11-RQ-0557, "Voting Systems: Analysis of Auditory Ballot Interfaces." Co-PI. $81,939. 10/1/2011 to 6/25/2013.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "3X-TREAM: 3X Transparent Research Environment for Aviation Modeling." Co-PI. Rice portion: $398,362 over three years. 5/1/2009 to 4/30/2012.

National Science Foundation grant #IIS-0812569, "Cognitive Modeling of Human Motor Skill Acquisition." Co-PI. $430,993, from 8/1/2008 to 7/31/2011.

National Science Foundation grant #CNS-0524211, "A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections." Co-PI. $7.5M total funding, $669, 661 allocated to Byrne, from 10/1/2005 to 9/30/2012.

Office of Naval Research grant #N00014-06-1-0056, "Systematic Error and Slowdown in the Execution of Routine Procedures." Sole PI. $238,638 from 10/1/2005 to 9/30/2008.

Office of Naval Research grant #N00014-03-1-0094, "Systematic Procedural Error." PI. $192,598, from 10/22/2002 to 9/31/2005.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant #NDD2-1321, "Integrated Modeling of Cognition and the Information Environment." PI. $273,578, from 03/01/2002 to 12/31/2004.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration grant #NCC2-1219, "Integrated Modeling of Cognition and the Information Environment." PIs: Michael D. Byrne & Alex Kirlik. $95,591, from 03/01/2001 to 9/30/2001.

Honors and Affiliations

Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Science, Fall 2009
Oustanding Associate for 2001-2002, Mary Gibbs Jones residential college, Rice University
Distinguished Faculty Associate for 2003-2004, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006, Mary Gibbs Jones residential college, Rice University
Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGCHI
Member, Cognitive Science Society
Member, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
Georgia Institute of Technology President's Fellow
Member, Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society
Member, Psi Chi, the National Psychology Honor Society

Teaching Interests

Human factors/human-computer interaction, computational modeling/artificial intelligence, statistics, cognition, decision-making, memory.

Courses Taught

Advanced Psychological Statistics I; Computational Modeling of Human Cognitive Processes; Foundations of Human Factors/Engineering Psychology; Reasoning, Problem Solving, and Decision Making; Introduction to Cognitive Psychology; Election Systems (interdisciplinary course with Computer Science and Political Science); Human-Computer Interaction; Human Factors and Ergonomics; Research Methods

Service

Associate Editor for the journal Human Factors, 2012-present; editorial board, 2004-2011; also co-editor of 2003 special section: "Quantitative Formal Models of Human Performance"
Editorial board for the journal Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 2011-present
Associate editor of the journal Cognitive Science, 2007-2010
Editorial board for the journal Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2007-2010
Member, Los Angeles County Voting System Assessment Project Technical Advisory Committee, 2013-present
Panelist for National Academy of Science/National Research Council review panel on Soldier Systems, 2007-2013
Chair, Human Performance Modeling technical group, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Fall 2008-2012
Grant review panel member, NSF program on Information and Intelligent Systems 2009, 2010, 2013
Grant review panel member, NASA Space Human Factors Program, August 2003
Ad-hoc grant reviewer, NSF, AFOSR, EPSRC (U.K. scientific funding agency), Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
Ad-hoc reviewer for the following journals: Psychological Review, American Journal of Political Science, Cognition, Psychology and Aging, Human-Computer Interaction, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Memory and Cognition, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Journal of the Learning Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Security & Privacy.
Reviewer for ACM-SIGCHI 1997-2004, 2006-2008, 2010, 2011
Associate Program Chair for Papers, ACM-SIGCHI 2012
Reviewer for Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002-2005, 2007, 2008
Reviewer for International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010
Undergraduate divisional advisor, Rice University, Fall 2001-present
Undergraduate advisor for the Cognitive Sciences major, Fall 2003-present
Conference committees: HCI International 2005, Cognitive Science 2002, ACM-SIGCHI 1998
Steering committee for the 1995 ACM-SIGCHI Research Symposium
Steering committee for the 1994 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Work Experience

Summer 2012 - present	Professor, Rice University Department of Psychology, Human Factors/HCI research group and Cognitive research group. Also Professor of Computer Science.
Summer 2006 - Summer 2012	Associate Professor, Rice University Department of Psychology, Human Factors/HCI research group and Cognitive research group. Also Associate Professor of Computer Science.
Summer 1999 - Summer 2006	Assistant Professor, Rice University Department of Psychology, Human Factors/Human-Computer Interaction program.
Fall 1996 - Summer 1999	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University. Primary project involved integration of production system models of cognition with theories of perception and action.
Summer 1995 - Summer 1996	Research Assistant for Professors Ashwin Ram, Mark Guzdial, John Stasko, College of Computing, and Richard Catrambone, Georgia Institute of Technology. Project: Design and evaluation of system using "cognitive media types" in instructional software.
Fall 1994 - Spring 1995	Research Assistant for Professors John Stasko, College of Computing, and Richard Catrambone, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology. Project: Evaluating the effectiveness of animated demonstrations in teaching computer algorithms.
Summer 1993 and 1994	Research Assistant for Professor James Foley, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. Project: Integrating GOMS analysis with the UIDE design tool.
1992 - 1994	Teaching Assistant for the graduate statistics sequence under the direction of Professor Christopher Hertzog, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology. Responsibilities included preparing a weekly 2.5-hour lecture/problem solving session for first-year graduate students, as well as generating and grading laboratory assignments and exams.
Summer 1991	HyperCard Engineer, Claris Corporation. Santa Clara, CA. Primary duties included development of HyperCard tools and external commands.
1990 - 1991	Tool Developer and Support Engineer, Apple Computer, Inc. Campbell, CA and Ann Arbor, MI. Primary project was Compatibility Checker 1.0, a software tool for evaluating the compatibility of applications and extensions with System 7.0. Also handled technical support issues within Apple.
1989 - 1991	Research Assistant for Professor David Kieras, Department of Psychology/EECS, University of Michigan. Assisted in the design and implementation of experiments, as well as handling subject running and data analysis.


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