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Ellen J. Bass

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Ellen Bass is an associate professor in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. She has over twenty-five years of experience in systems engineering with relevant experience in complex, dynamic systems. Bass's professional interests include cognitive systems engineering, human-automation interaction, and intelligent decision support systems and learning environments.

Bass is a senior member of the IEEE and currently serves as the Vice President of Human-Machine Systems for the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS). She is an associate editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A. She is the Program Chair Elect of the Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (CEDM) Technical Group of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a member of the editorial board for the journal Human Factors. She is a contributing editor of The International Journal of Applied Aviation Studies.

In 2002, Bass joined the faculty at UVa where she conducts research in the domains of air transportation, weather, bioinformatics, and healthcare in order to inform system requirements, procedures, display designs and training. At UVa she has directed seventeen funded projects as the principal investigator (PI) and substantially participated in 10 others. In total, these projects exceed $2M of funding for her research program. She has advised 1 Ph.D. and 11 M.S. students to completion. Her current research program consists of five Ph.D. students and three MS students. She is an active member of UVaPride. She is the faculty advisor of Girls Excited about Math and Science as well as the UVa student chapter of the HFES.

Prior to 2002, Bass worked at Search Technology, Inc. where she led several NASA, US Air Force and industrial projects and developed models of human performance as the basis for associate system technology, decision support systems, and intelligent learning environments. Prior to 1992, she worked at IBM where she designed the human-computer interface and its associated hardware and software for aviation, air traffic control, and sonar applications.