Research on human autonomy teaming and the dynamics of human–machine collaboration
What I study
I study how humans and autonomous technologies work together inside complex systems.
As autonomous systems become more capable and more widely deployed, humans are increasingly required to collaborate with them as teammates rather than simply operate them as tools. In these environments, the effectiveness of the team often depends on how trust develops between human operators and autonomous systems and how that trust evolves through experience.
My work focuses on human autonomy teaming and the broader question of how systems that combine human judgment with machine autonomy can be structured so that their interactions remain understandable, adaptable, and resilient under real constraints.
Research Background
My dissertation examined how trust evolves during repeated interactions between humans and autonomous systems. In these settings, trust is not static. It changes as people observe system behavior and update their expectations about reliability, capability, and intent.
Understanding these dynamics is essential because poorly calibrated trust can undermine performance. Too little trust leads to underuse of capable systems, while excessive trust can produce overreliance and failure.
Professional Experience
Alongside my research, I have worked across multiple areas of engineering designing and studying physical and embedded systems. Working across domains revealed recurring patterns in how complex systems organize themselves, how information flows through them, and how coordination emerges between human and technical components.
This Site
This site documents an ongoing line of inquiry into complex systems and human autonomy teaming. It collects research, experiments, and engineering projects that explore how humans and autonomous technologies interact and how those interactions shape the behavior of larger systems.
portfolio
This portfolio collects projects focused on human autonomy teaming, system design, and human–machine interaction. The work spans both research and applied engineering environments and includes experiments, prototypes, and design investigations.
Some of the work presented here originated from projects I completed as a contract engineer. These engagements involved the design and development of physical and embedded systems across multiple technical domains and required translating complex technical requirements into practical system architectures.
