Graduate Student Opportunities

The CSL has provided research training to a number of students in the M.A. Human Factors and Ph.D. Applied-Experimental Psychology programs in the Department of Psychology at Catholic University. A few students enrolled in the Ph.D. Clinical Psychology and Developmental Psychology programs have also been appointed to research positions in the CSL.

Kevin Bennett and Paul Nestor were the first CSL graduates, obtaining the Ph.D. degree in 1984. Kevin Bennett who obtained his Ph.D. under the joint direction of Jim Howard and Raja Parasuraman, is Professor of Psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and has achieved prominence in the world of human factors.  Paul Nestor is now at the University of Massachusetts.  As established researchers in cognitive neuroscience and human factors, respectively, they exemplify the diversity of the CSL's interests.

A total of 16 persons have obtained their PhDs from the CSL to date. With one exception, all of these students were funded by research grants and contracts. 

The following is a list of Ph.D. graduates from the Cognitive Science Lab, with entry date, graduation date, and current placement.

                            Ph.D. Students: Dissertation Director at Catholic University

            Name              Entered        MA            Ph.D.                        Current Position 

1.  Sue Ann Rice

1980

1982

1987

Retired from the US Navy

2.  Kevin Bennett	1980	1982	1984	Assoc. Professor, Wright State University
3.  Paul Nestor	1981	1982	1984	Assoc. Professor, U.Mass, Boston

4.  Gayle Wisdom	1982	1984	1987	Human Factors Consultant
5.  Toufik Bahri	1984	1986	1990	Deceased

6.  Mustapha Mouloua	1984	1986	1992	Assoc. Prof. -  U. Central Florida
7.  John Deaton	1985	1985	1988	Research Scientist - CHI System, Inc.
8.  Kiran Chadda	1986	1986	1992	Visiting Professor - Marymount College
9.  Scott Adams	1988	1990	1994	Computer Industry
10. Robert Molloy	1988	1993	1996	NTSB
11. Brian Hilburn	1991	1993	1996	NLR, Holland
12. Sangeeta Panicher	1992	1992	1996	Science Directorate, APA
13. James Levy	1992	1994	1999	NIH
14. David Hardy	1993	1994	1997	Adjunct Asst. Prof. - UCLA
15. Jackie Duley	1994	1994	2001	BAH Associates
16. Tony Masalonis	1995	1995	2001	Mitre Corporation
17. Linda Kikuchi	1995	1999
18. Scott Galster	1996	1998	2003	Human Effectiveness Directorate, Wright-Patterson AFB
19. Diego Castano	1997	1999		Boeing Inc.
20. Camilla C. Knott	1998	2001
21. Xiong Jiang	1998	2001
22. Giselle Braganza	2000	2003
23. Dan Caggiano	2000
24. Erika Rovira	2000	2003
25. Marla Zinni	2001
26. Reshma Kumar	2003
27. Kathleen McGarry	2003

                               Ph.D. Students: Dissertation Director at other Universities

             Name                                             Ph.D                    Institution

1.  Annamaria Berardi	1994	University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2.  Ulla Metzger	2001	Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
3.  Francesco DiNocera	2001	University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy