2026 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects
of Situation Management (CogSIMA)

March 9-12, 2026 | Tempe, Arizona

Keynotes

Mica R. Endsley

Mica R. Endsley, Ph.D.

Mica Endsley is President of SA Technologies and is the former Chief Scientist for the US Air Force. She has also held the positions of Visiting Associate Professor at MIT in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Endsley is a Fellow and Past-President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She received a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Endsley is a recognized world leader in the design, development and evaluation of systems to support human situation awareness (SA) and decision-making, and the integration of humans with AI and automation. She has authored over 200 scientific articles including the newly released 3rd edition of Designing for Situation Awareness. She chaired the recent National Academies of Sciences report on Human-AI Teaming and is Chairing a new ANSI/NIST standard for Human-AI Systems Test and Evaluation.

Subbarao Kambhampati

Subbarao Kambhampati

Subbarao Kambhampati is a professor of computer science at Arizona State University. Kambhampati studies fundamental problems in planning and decision making, motivated in particular by the challenges of human-aware AI systems. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Association for Computing Machinery, and a recent recipient of the AAAI Patrick H. Winston Outstanding Educator award. He served as the president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a trustee of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the chair of AAAS Section T (Information, Communication and Computation), and a founding board member of Partnership on AI. Kambhampati's research as well as his views on the progress and societal impacts of AI have been featured in multiple national and international media outlets. He can be followed on Twitter @rao2z.

News

Keynote Speaker Updates:
Dr. Maia Cook and Professor Subbarao Kambhampati have agreed to be our keynote speakers.

We’re also delighted to share that Dr. Mica Endsley has agreed to serve as our Banquet Keynote Speaker on March 11.

June 27: We are thrilled to announce that we have IEEE SMC Sponsorship for CogSIMA 2026.

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