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Alec Gonzales received his PhD from Clemson University on December 17, 2025. He began his PhD program in August 2021 and has since then published 10 peer-reviewed articles, presented 10 oral and 23 poster presentations …

PhD candidate Patrick Fuller received the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Student Member with Honors award the ASPIRE 69th International Annual Meeting. For more information,

              At the ASPIRE 69th International Annual Meeting, PhD student Patrick Fuller presented two lectures titled “Survey-Informed Systems Framework for Robotic-Assisted Surgery Cybersecurity” (left) and “Identifying and Assessing Nontechnical …

At the ASPIRE 69th International Annual Meeting, Dr. Jackie Cha moderated the discussion panel, “Augmented Cognition Meets AI: Enhancing Human Performance with Real-Time, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Intelligence” and led a lecture as session chair for …

On August 18th, 2025, Alec Gonzales successfully defended his dissertation titled, “Decision-making training of minimally invasive surgical skills“.

Gonzales, A., Jackson, C., & Cha, J. (2025). Extended reality as a modality to train non-technical skills in healthcare: A scoping review. Applied Ergonomics, 125, 104463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104463

Fuller P,. Kennedy S,. Ball M., Duffie H., Gainey M., Luo Q., Joseph A., Carbonell A., Cha, J. S. (2025). Understanding the challenges of robotic-assisted surgery adoption: Perspectives from stakeholders and the general population on …

Matthew Ball awarded 2024 HFES Training TG Best Poster Award for “An Information Theoretic Approach to Understanding the Information Gain During Laparoscopic Motor Skill”.

Alec Gonzales awarded 2024 HFES Augmented Cognition TG Student Grant Award for “Bridging the Gap between Trainee and Expert Mental Models for Minimally Invasive Surgical Tasks”.

The Robert L. Wears early career award aims to highlight the achievements of academics and practitioners in the first six years from graduation.