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October 2, 2024

Mehta leads list of honorees at annual conference

Written By: Jane FELLER

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Professor Ranjana Mehta received the prestigious Jack A. Kraft Innovator Award at the annual conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) in September. This annual meeting, recently renamed ASPIRE, has a mission to “Advance Systems and Practices through Innovation, Research and Education.” This year’s event attracted nearly 2,000 attendees from academia, government, and industry.

Mehta was joined at the event by 28 additional UW-Madison Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering conference contributors, with leading roles in 36 presentations, talks, posters, discussion panels, and workshops. Additional department honorees included:

  • UW-HFES student chapter: Gold Award
  • PhD Student Aakash Yadav: HFES Augmented Cognition Technical Group (ACTG) Student Grant Award
  • Phd Student Jeevan Jayasuriya, Research Scientist Kieran Nichols: Co-authors of Best Student-led Paper Award, Aerospace Technical Group