Presenter

Dr. Mustafa Demir is a research scholar at the Wm. Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, and an associate research scientist at the Biodesign Institute's Center for Applied Structural Discovery. Additionally, he is a faculty associate teaching statistics at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, Arizona. Dr. Demir received his Ph.D. in Simulation, Modeling, and Applied Cognitive Science, focusing on team coordination dynamics and effectiveness in human-machine teaming (HMT) from ASU in the Spring of 2017. For the last 13 years, his research has been grounded in a human-systems engineering approach, and he seeks to optimize sociotechnical systems by understanding and developing more effective human-centered collaborative Artificial Intelligence-powered systems. Since 2012, Dr. Demir has published approximately 100 academic works in Turkish and English across various journals and conference proceedings in the social and engineering sciences, achieving an h-index of 28. His scientific interests include HMT, advanced statistical modeling, dynamical systems modeling, team cognition, and operations research. Additionally, Dr. Demir has been a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2015.