Biography:

Joe Bates is a Research Associate with the Nano/Human Interface Presidential

Research Initiative. He is responsible for coordinating and conducting the Cognitive

Science research efforts. Joe’s graduate education in psychology (MS, Yale

University) provides a solid foundation in the design and analysis of experimental

studies. Previous experience in numerous research roles has provided practical and

formal training in developing and managing human subjects research programs.

Joe also brings a vast amount of experience working within multidisciplinary

research teams to the NHI. While a research assistant at the University of Michigan

he worked in the combined lab of 3 psychology professors, with one focused on

working memory, another on concepts and categorization, and the third interested in

how the two hemispheres of the brain process and integrate information. At

Columbia’s medical center he worked with a team of neuro-intensive care unit

physicians and neuropsychology researchers examining the cognitive and medical

outcomes following a brain bleed (subarachnoid hemorrhage). As a research

scientist at Texas Tech he helped faculty members from a number of different

colleges (Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Business, Human Sciences) design and

implement functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study protocols. The skills

Joe has developed integrating himself on interdisciplinary research teams will

certainly be useful when forging the necessary collaborations amongst the Material

Scientists, Computer Scientists, and Machine Learning/Data Scientists that make up

the NHI team.

• Eye tracking

• H-Task Analysis

• Other stuff

• Different stuff