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

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.

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Maia Cook is the CEO and President of Pacific Science & Engineering Group, Inc. (PSE). Dr. Cook holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Irvine. She has over 20 years of experience as a human factors scientist-practitioner, applying cognitive science to design solutions for users of high-consequence, mission-critical military and industrial systems. As a leading expert in human-autonomy integration, her contributions have revolutionized the design, standardization, and scalability of military unmanned vehicle command and control software user interfaces. She routinely educates programmatic stakeholders on avoiding design and implementation errors arising from common misconceptions about human use of automation and AI technologies. Dr. Cook's previous positions include establishing and directing PSE's human-autonomy integration area and serving as PSE's Chief Scientist.

Dr. Cook holds professional memberships and publishes and presents across the human factors, defense industrial, and industrial engineering communities. She is a named inventor on multiple patents for proactive monitoring displays used in industrial automated process control. Through her career, Dr. Cook's defining impacts include improving systems for end users, mentoring students and professionals, and bridging across human factors and technology communities to improve the integration of humans and systems.

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.

Joseph B. Lyons, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is the Senior Scientist for Human-Machine Teaming, 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He serves as the principal scientific authority and independent researcher in the research, development, adaptation, and application of Human-Machine Teaming.

Dr. Lyons began his career with the Air Force in 2005 in the Human Effectiveness Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Dr. Lyons has served as a thought leader for the DoD in the areas of trust in autonomy and Human-Machine Teaming. Dr. Lyons has published over 100 technical publications including 64 journal articles in outlets focused on human factors, human-machine interaction, applied psychology, robotics, and organizational behavior. Dr. Lyons also served as Co-Editor for the 2020 book, Trust in Human-Robot Interaction. Dr. Lyons is an AFRL Fellow, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a Fellow of the Society for Military Psychologists. Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Lyons served as a Program Officer for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and was a Principal Research Psychologist within the Human Effectiveness Directorate.