PhD.
My doctoral (PhD) thesis is entitled “Executing Goals and Intentions in Dynamic Multitasking Environments”, and focuses on the effects of interruptions to deferred tasks in simulated air traffic control.
I am an alumni of the Human Factors and Applied Cognition Laboratory. I have a continued research interest in developing quantitative models of cognitive processes in workplace contexts.
My thesis was awarded with an American Psychological Association Early Career Award (Division 3, Experimental Psychology) and a “Higher Degree by Research Achievement Award” from UWA Graudate Research school.
My PhD was supervised/advised by:
- Professor Shayne Loft
- Professor Simon Farrell
- Associate Professor Troy Visser
Programming Philosophy.
Reproducible research, open-source/free software, and computational methods are central to my work. I spend a great deal of my time programming and twisting and wrangling data. I am a fan of excessive dotfiles and configurations. I actively promote computational literacy as an essential skill and actively help social scientists get started with programming.
I developed and released the first library, FIPS, for conducting simulations of biomathematical models of fatigue under the AGPL3. I contribute to open source, including easystats, a young and ambitious project aiming to develop a usable and intuitive interface to R models.
Toolkit
I honestly use the tool required for the job. That said, I do prefer working with R, Python, and Autohotkey. Within R, I’m frequently leveraging lme4, ggPMDC, Stan, the tidyverse, and devtools/remotes. The only statically compiled language I am familiar with is Go. I am most comfortable within close proximity to the GNU Core Utils and a Linux Boot (or WSL these days). Those who have worked closely with me for some time are well aware that I can talk at great lengths about Debian, Emacs, and Authotkey. I hold a deep hope that rumors of a LISP based R-like language are true.