University of Virginia Ellen J. Bass

Students

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Current Graduate Student Advisees

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  Leigh Baumgart
  
   
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  Matthew L. Bolton
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  Kim Brantley
   
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  Justin DeVoge
  
   
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  Alex Gessner
   
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  Brendan Hogan
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  Doug Lee
  
   
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  Sharon Meth
  
   
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  Ted Perez
  
   
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  Donald Rude
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  Erik Vargo
   

Graduate Students - Degrees Earned

	Michael E. Smoot - Ph.D. Systems Engineering, 2005 Analyzing, exploring, and visualizing near-optimal protein sequence alignments (earned the Louis T. Rader Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award). More about Mike
	Jeffrey Boyd - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2008 A methodology for analyzing an aircraft wake vortex encounter
	Jonathan Evans - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2008 Design interventions to support error correction in a reading aloud system
	K. Doruk Akan - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2007 Validation of the aggregation and integration of protein signatures using the InterPro metadatabase
	Leigh A. Baumgart - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2006 Using part-task scenarios to understand emergency manager decision-making.
	Matthew L. Bolton - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2006 An investigation of the effects of texture and field of view on spatial awareness in synthetic vision head-down displays (earned the Louis T. Rader Outstanding Masters Student Award).
	Roger Counihan M.S. Systems Engineering, 2006 An analysis of two heuristics for solving the forward reserve problem
	Justin M. DeVoge - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2006 A framework for the development of aviation weather training content re-use
	Richard M. D. Sledd - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2006 Characterization of sign-out in pediatric acute care wards to inform process improvement.
	Sinem Goknur - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2005 Measuring operator conformance with air traffic self-separation alerting systems.
	Aaron Gussman - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2005 Identification of ambiguous and conflicting information in protein classification metadatabases
	Katie Klein - M.S. Systems Engineering, 2005 The effects of cognitive feedback on trust and performance while using information analysis automation.

Undergraduate Theses Advised

2007-2008
1. Patrick Giesecke, Requirements and prototype evaluation for an ergonomics problem reporting system
2. Blair Hubbard, Sistema de informação de SMS do abastecimento (SISA): Ergonomics problem reporting in a Brazilian oil company
3. Michael Purvis, Systems analysis to reduce binge drinking
4. Monica Weaver, Developing social norms materials to influence binge drinking at the Foxfield Races
5. Matthew White, Development of a web-based information system for describing the inpatient clinical experiences of medicine housestaff

2006-2007
6. Matthew Burnham, A systems approach to health system policy: A case study of the Russian health system (Spring 2007)
7. Nicole Cobb, US-Brazil cognitive systems engineering exchange program: A cognitive engineering approach to a Brazilian ergonomic problem reporting system (Spring 2007)
8. Eric Danziger, Developing a resource allocation advisory system: Truck routing in Rio Grande do Sul (Spring 2007)
9. Glenn Keaton, Improving the distribution system of an oil company in Brazil (Spring 2007)
10. Kathy Tejano, Improving SISA: Designing potential solutions to Petrobras’s ergonomic reporting system (Spring 2007)
11. Thomas Wu, Testing the capabilities and limits of airspace analysis software: Complexity Density Analysis

2005-2006 12. Jeffrey Boyd, Discrete event simulation model for future air taxi services; Finalist for the 2006 SEAS Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium
13. Protip Neil Guha, An analysis of student drinking norms at Foxfield
14. Thomas Hagan, Increasing Synthetic Vision System Toolset functionality in support of human-in-the-loop experiments
15. Deniz Kustu, Enhancing a toolset for NASA to test synthetic vision systems
16. Lancen LaChance, Enhancement and assessment of synthetic vision systems experimentation software
17. Steven Li, Design of a usability test to evaluate the enhancement and documentation of the synthetic vision systems

2004-2005
18. K. Doruk Akan, A web-based tool to facilitate annotation of the Streptococcus sanguis genome
19. Roger Counihan, The development of content and an web-based delivery architecture for a training tool for flight dispatchers on icing

2003-2004
20. Matthew Brophy, Development of a web-based icing training system for flight dispatchers
21. Jason Chou, Preferences with respect to medical research
22. Courtney Lane, Developing a web-based prototype for flight dispatcher icing training: The flight dispatcher decision-making process
23. Ricky Li, Flight dispatcher icing training program: A scenario-based approach
24. Ryan Swigler, Web-based flight dispatcher icing training: A prototype development

2002-2003
25. Jason Burns, Icing training for flight dispatchers: Developing an effective training system
26. Aaron Gussman, Preliminary accomplishments in the development of a completely integrated genome sequencing pipeline
27. Greg Joiner, Survey and analysis of the feasibility of a University of Virginia men’s basketball home game student ticket distribution online registration system
28. Carolyn Quil, Icing training for flight dispatchers: Investigating web-based requirements
29. Martin Radio, Where are the students???
30. Joshua Reeder, Developing flight dispatcher icing training
31. Brandon Rogers, Helping the Hoocrew: Improving the line management system for camping out prior to basketball games and other major events
32. Rebecca Um, Protein database research forum
33. Thomas Walls, A predictive model of student basketball attendance
34. Ivan Young, Icing training for flight dispatchers: Developing an effective training system