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Raja
Parasuraman
Curriculum
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University Professor
Director, Graduate Program in Human Factors and Applied Cognition
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2055
David King Hall |
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4400
University Dr MS3F5
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 |
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1-703-993-1357 |
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1-703-993-1330 |
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rparasur@gmu.edu |
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Raja Parasuraman, Ph.D. has been Professor of Psychology
at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA since 2004.
In 2007 he was appointed to the position of University Professor at George Mason University. He is Director of the Graduate Program in Human Factors and Applied Cognition. He is also Chair of the Neuroimaging Core of the Krasnow Institute (NICKI). Previously he held appointments as Professor and Associate
Professor of Psychology at The Catholic University of
America, Washington DC from 1982 to 2004. He received
a B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) in Electrical Engineering
from Imperial College, University of London, U.K. (1972)
and an M.Sc. in Applied Psychology (1973) and a Ph.D.
in Psychology from the University of Aston, Birmingham, U.K. (1976).
Raja Parasuraman has long-standing research programs
in two areas, human factors and cognitive neuroscience.
The first concerns human performance in human-machine
systems,
particularly the role of human attention, memory and vigilance in automated and robotic systems. His second area of research
is the cognitive neuroscience of attention, where
he has conducted studies using information-processing
paradigms, event-related brain potentials and functional
brain imaging (PET, fMRI), both in normal populations
and in relation to aging and Alzheimer’s disease. He also has
a research thrust in the molecular genetics of cognition,
specifically attention and working memory. Finally,
he has recently combined his interests
in human factors (ergonomics) and cognitive neuroscience
by developing the field of neuroergonomics, which
he defines as the study of brain and behavior at work.
Raja Parasuraman’s research in these areas
has been supported by several federal agencies, including
NASA, NIH, DOD, and DARPA, as well as by private foundations.
His books include The Psychology of Vigilance (Academic
Press, 1982), Varieties of Attention (Academic Press,
1984), Event-Related Brain Potentials (Oxford University
Press, 1990), Automation and Human Performance (Erlbaum, 1996), The Attentive Brain (MIT Press, 1998),
and Neuroergonomics: The Brain at Work (Oxford University
Press, 2005).
Raja Parasuraman served as a member of the Human Development and Aging Study Section of NIH from 1992 to 1995, and was a member of the National Research Council’s Panel on Human Factors in Air-Traffic Control Automation from 1994 to 1998. He was a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Human Factors from 2000 to 2007 and served as ]Chair from 2001 to 2005. Raja Parasuraman is on the editorial board of several journals, including Ergonomics, Journal of Experimental PsychologyL Applied, and Human Factors. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (1994), the American Psychological Association (1991), the American Psychological Society (1991), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (1994),
a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2001), and a Fellow of the International Ergonomics Association.
He was also the recipient in 1997 and again in 2001 of the Jerome H. Ely Award for best paper in the journal Human Factors by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. In 2004 he received the Franklin V. Taylor Award for Lifetime Achievement in Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology from the American Psychological Association (Division 21). In 2006 he received the Paul M. Fitts Education Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Finally, on a personal note, Raja Parasuraman has two teenage daughters, is an accomplished cook, plays guitar, and enjoys hiking and travel to distant lands.
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