Ranjana Mehta, PhD

PRIMARY APPOINTMENT

Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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EDUCATION

PhD: C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital – Pediatrics
MS: Industrial Engineering, University at Buffalo
BE: Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech

Ranjana Mehta is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a graduate faculty with the Texas A&M Institute for Neuroscience at Texas A&M University, director of the NeuroErgonomics Laboratory, co-director of the Texas A&M Ergonomics Center, and a faculty fellow with the Center for Population Health and Aging and the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems.

Mehta’s research examines the mind-motor-machine nexus using a novel neuroergonomics approach to understand, monitor, and predict human performance under fatigue and stress. With these predictions, research in her lab focuses on developing closed-loop human augmentation technologies (sensory, neural, physiological) for safety-critical applications (emergency response, space exploration, and oil and gas). Projects in her lab are funded by numerous agencies and industries and include user-centered and equitable design and evaluation of adaptive interfaces (AR/VR), wearable technologies, human-robotic interactions (HRI), and brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to facilitate effective human-technology partnerships.

SELECT AWARDS & HONORS

• Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2023
• The Human Factors Prize, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2022
• NASA ideas* Fellow, 2022
• Technical Innovation, the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, 2022
• Presidential Impact Fellow, Texas A&M University, 2021
• Virginia Tech Engineering Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, Virginia Tech, 2020
• TEES Engineering Genesis Award, Texas A&M University, 2020
• TEES Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M University, 2020
• HFE WOMAN of the Year, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2019
• Creativeness in Ergonomics Practitioner of the Year Award, Applied Ergonomics Society (IISE), 2019
• William C. Howell Young Investigator Award, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2017
• James G. Zimmer New Investigator Research Award, American Public Health Association, 2014