Byrne CV Info
CHIL@Rice

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


Education

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

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

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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