Presenter

Stephen B. Gilbert is currently Associate Director of Iowa State University's Virtual Reality Application Center and Director of its Human Computer Interaction graduate program. He is also an associate professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering department. His research interests focus on technology to advance cognition, including interface design, intelligent tutoring systems, and cognitive engineering. He works closely with industry, NSF, and DoD on research contracts and has also worked in commercial software development and run his own company. He received a BSE from Princeton in civil engineering and operations research and a PhD from MIT in brain and cognitive sciences.