OPL Team

Director

Tom Schnell, PhD

Associate Director, Iowa Technology Institute

Director, Operator Performance Laboratory

Captain Jim "Max" Gross Chair in Engineering

thomas-schnell@uiowa.edu

(319) 384-0811

Current Research Team

Jeff Buck

Undergraduate Research Assistant

jeffrey-buck@uiowa.edu

Mathew Cover, PhD

Project Engineer

mathew-cover@uiowa.edu

(319) 248-1100

Peter Fleischmann

Pilot

peter-fleischmann@uiowa.edu

Taylor Getting

Pilot

Charlie Goddard

Subject Matter Expert

charles-goddard@uiowa.edu

(319) 248-1100

Elliot Heinrichs

Undergraduate Research Assistant

elliot-heinrichs@uiowa.edu

Enrique Leira, MD

Collaborator, Operator Performance Laboratory

enrique-leira@uiowa.edu

(319) 356-8755

Tom Lueck

Temp Professional Employee

thomas-lueck@uiowa.edu

(319) 248-1100

Randy "Tarzan" Marzen

Research Associate

randall-marzen@uiowa.edu

Benjamin Oxley

Research Programmer

benjamin-oxley@uiowa.edu

Bradley Parker

Engineering Coordinator

bradley-parker@uiowa.edu

(319) 248-1100

Carl Richey

Research Associate

carlton-richey@uiowa.edu

(319) 335-6008

Kyle Smith, Major, USAF

Graduate Research Assistant

kyle-a-smith@uiowa.edu

https://iti.uiowa.edu/labs/operator-performance-laboratory

Nathan Smith

Engineering Associate

nathan-d-smith@uiowa.edu

(319) 248-1100

Jon Stoltz

Engineering Associate

jon-stoltz@uiowa.edu

(319) 248-1100

Colton Thompson

Engineering Associate

colton-thompson@uiowa.edu

(319) 248-1100

Evan Voelker

Engineering Coordinator

evan-voelker@uiowa.edu

Aaron Williams

Temp Professional Employee

aaron-williams@uiowa.edu

Kody Wixom

Undergraduate Research Assistant

kody-wixom@uiowa.edu

Dale Yoder

Temp Professional Employee

dale-yoder@uiowa.edu

OPL Alumni

Andrew Advani

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

James E. Brown IV, Maj, USAF

Graduate Research Assistant

james-brown@uiowa.edu

Dieter Bukolt

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Amy Dideriksen

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

amy-dideriksen@uiowa.edu

Isaac Eigner-Bybee

Graduate Research Assistant

isaac-eigner-bybee@uiowa.edu

Joseph Engler

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Amanda Greene

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Brett Hanson

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Patrick Highland

Graduate Research Assistant

patrick-j-highland@uiowa.edu

Darin Hoover

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Jack LaFollette

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Nick Lorch

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Richard Miller

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

John Neuhaus

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Glen Pry

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Chris Reuter

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Cory Reuter

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Dan Sussna

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

John Tibben

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Brian Wendt

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Michael Yocius

Operator Performance Lab Alumnus

Dr. Schnell's Student Alumni Tree

DOCTORAL STUDENTS

Semester started	Student	DATE Completed	Topic	STATUS	Permanent Position
Fall 2000	Fuat Aktan	08/03	Glare of HID Headlamps	Completed	3M
Spring 2011	Scott Openshaw	04/11	Physiological Measures	Completed	HON
Summer 2014	Kyle Ellis	07/14	Eye Tracking Workload	Completed	NASA
Spring 2015	Michael Yocius	11/14	Light Field Imaging	Completed	LMCO
Fall 2017	Jaclyn A. Hoke	12/17	Image Processing	Completed	RCI
Fall 2018	Mathew Cover	08/18	Integrated Alerting	Completed	OPL
Fall 2018	Amy Dideriksen	02/21	Training Effectiveness	Completed	Collins Aerospace
Fall 2019	Patrick Highland	08/22	Flight Test Research	Completed	U.S. Air Force
Fall 2020	Chris Wenger	08/24	Flight Control Autonomy	In Progress	Collins Aerospace
Fall 2019	Joe Williams	08/22	Machine Learning	In Progress	Collins Aerospace

MASTER OF SCIENCE STUDENTS

Semester STARTED	Student	Date Completed	Topic	STATuS	Permanent Position
Fall 1998	Fuat Aktan	12/00	Development of Nighttime Visibility Model for UV Pavement Markings	Completed	OPL
Fall 1999	Jeff Mohror	12/00	Evaluation of Traffic Flow Analysis Tools	Completed	NADS
Fall 1999	Phil Ohme	03/01	Enhancing Visibility For Older Drivers	Completed	Consultant
Summer 2000	Sohel Merchant	08/01	Pilot Performance	Completed	Ford
Fall 2001	James Hogsett	N/A	Pavement Markings	Incomplete	Ford
Spring 2000	Tuhin Diptiman	04/02	Fun in Driving	Completed	Ford
Fall 2001	Jason Schenk	11/02	Stochastic Discrete Event Simulation in the ER	Completed	OSU
Spring 2005	Mike Keller	03/07	Spatial Orientation	Completed	OPL
Fall 2003	Jason Wenger	07/07	Synthetic Vision System	Completed	RCI
Spring 2006	Lora Yekhshatyan	03/08	Left Turn Lane Design	Completed
Fall 2008	Jaclyn Hoke	04/09	Optical Helmet Tracking	Completed	RCI
Spring 2007	Gregory Neiswander	04/10	Helicopter Brownout	Completed	NASA
Spring 2005	Nick Lorch	04/11	Live Virtual Constructive	Completed	OPL
Fall 2007	Kyle Ellis	07/09	Eye Tracking Metrics	Completed	NASA
Fall 2008	Artistee Harris	07/09	Eye Tracking Model	Completed
Spring 2010	Michael Yocius	04/11	Image Analysis	Completed	OPL
Fall 2010	Ahmed Diken	03/11	Pilot Fatigue		OPL
Spring 2008	Nicole Becklinger	04/10	Wide Area Surveillance	Completed	OPL
Spring 2011	Ahmed Diken	04/11	Analysis of Different Pha. of a Commercial Flight	Completed	UNK
Spring 2012	Shawn Parker	04/12	Impl. of Deep Learning	Completed	11 Wireless
Spring 2014	Chris Reuter	12/19	A Comparison of Pilot Upset Recovery Performance in Simulation and Flight	Completed	Collins Aerospace
Spring 2018	Christopher Reichlen	05/18	Spatial D in 5th Gen Fight	AFIT-USAF	U.S. Air Force
Fall 2019	Katherine Woodruff	06/21	EEG Workload	Completed	Collins Aerospace
Fall 2019	Colton Thompson	06/21	Human Factors	In Progress	OPL

MEMBERSHIP ON DOCTORAL COMMITTEES

Semester STARTED	Student	Date COMPLETED	Topic	Permanent Position	Notes
Summer 2000	Tim Brown	07/00	Modeling Driver Performance	NADS
Summer 2000	JongJin Kwon	07/00	Robust Control of Surface Roughness	WKU	Assistant Professor
Spring 1999	Al Hallene	12/99	Development of Logistics Regression for K-12 Education	Consultant
Summer 2000	Jingzhou Yang	07/00	Swept Volumes		Dissertation Proposal Defense
Summer 2001	Wen-Chieh	07/01	Product Chain
Spring 2003	Yuan Gan	07/03	Clustering Algorithms	N/D
Spring 2009	Shan Bao	08/09	Eye Tracking Workload	TBD
Spring 2010	Rose Danek	07/10	Incidental Learning	NIU	Psychology Student
Spring 2011	Joseph Engler	04/11	Chaotic Attractors	RCI
Spring 2015	Moh Batineh	05/15	Artificial Neural Network
Spring 2017	Howard Chen	04/17	Inertial Measurement
Fall 2018	Hamed Salehi	12/18	Mental Models of Hazards	TBD
Fall 2018	Hamed Salehi	12/18	Hazard Models	UNK
Spring 2019	Amir Momenipour	05/19	Audio Tactile Warnings	Rose-Hulman

POST DOCTORAL ASSOCIATES

Semester	Name	Project Description	Present Position
Fall 2001	Yongjin Kwon	Synthetic Vision for Acft.	Western Kentucky University
Spring 2002	Katherine Lemos	Synthetic Vision for Acft.	NASA Langley Research Center
Spring 2003	Richard L. Newman	Synthetic Vision for Acft.	FAA, Seattle
Fall 2003	Pieter Poolman	Physiological Measures	UIHC
Fall 2011	Joseph Engler	Chaotic Attractors	Rockwell Collins