Julie J. Kang | National Transportation Safety Board (original) (raw)

I investigate ways promote transportation safety by implementing cognitive theories in an applied research setting. Specifically, my goal is to use my knowledge of attentional and visual mechanisms to guide the design of transportation systems, investigate aspects of human performance on major transportation accidents, and to examine new developments that affect human performance factors.

Over the fall of 2009, I worked on a fellowship at the National Academy of Sciences to integrate my interests in science and policy. I work with the Committee of Human Systems Integration.

Specialties:
Visual perception, attention, cognition, decision making, design, human performance, eye tracking, driving, dual task performance, human factors, applied experimental psychology, cognitive engineering

Funding Received

National Academy of Sciences Mirzayan Fellowship,
Fall 2009.

University of California, Transportation Center
Fellowship, 2008

Advancing Women in Transportation, Helen M.
Overly Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship, 2008

Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship, 2009

National Rural Summit on Traffic Safety Culture
Scholarship, 2009

Honors and Awards

Graduate Student Representative of UC Riverside for
Graduate Studies Day in Sacramento, March 17,
2010.

University of California, Riverside's nominee for
University of California Transportation Center Student
of the Year 2009.

Best Poster Award, 15th Annual University of
California Transportation Center Student
Conference, February 2009

Professional Affiliations

AAAS Federal Innovation and Research Evaluation
Group

AAAS Security and Development Group

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Advancing Women in Transportation

Transportation Research Board

UCR Graduate Transportation Association (Transpo)
Supervisors: John Andersen and John Holden
Address: Department of Transportation
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration
Behavioral Research Division
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, West Building
Washington, DC, 20590

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