Wayne D. Gray earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and since has worked for government and industry research labs, as well as universities. He is currently a Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with appointments in Cognitive Science, Industrial & Systems Engineering, and Computer Science. Wayne is a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society, Cognitive Science Society, the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES), and the American Psychological Association (APA). In 2008, APA awarded him the Franklin V. Taylor Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Applied Experimental & Engineering Psychology.
He is a past Chair of the Cognitive Science Society and the founding Chair of the Human Performance Modeling technical group of HFES. At present he is Executive Editor for the journal, Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS). In 2012, he was elected a Visiting Research Professor (Forschungsaufenthalt in Deutschland) by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and spent his sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) in Berlin.
Deborah Boehm-Davis (ret.) holds the position of Emeritus University Professor of Psychology. Her last position at George Mason University was as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She worked on applied cognitive research at General Electric, NASA Ames Research Center, and Bell Laboratories prior to joining George Mason University in 1984. She also served as a Senior Policy Advisor for Human Factors at the Food and Drug Administration and as a Research Manager at Meta (Reality Labs Research, formerly Facebook Reality Labs & Oculus Research).
She has served as president of the Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association, and of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She has been an associate editor for Human Factors and the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; she currently serves on the editorial board of Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science. She is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Psychonomics Society, and the International Ergonomics Association. She holds a B.A. in psychology from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.