Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, Meeko Oishi, received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations.

Oishi, an electrical and computer engineering assistant professor, received the CAREER award to develop theoretical and computational techniques to make collaborative human-automation systems more reliable by identifying potential problems in user-interfaces and automation at the design stage. The research will use control theoretic techniques for dynamics-driven user-interface design, with application to large, safety-critical, high-risk or expensive systems. The title of her project is "CAREER: Formal Tools for Analysis and Design of Collaborative Hybrid Systems". 

Oishi's research focuses on providing guarantees of safety and performance in cyberphysical systems through careful design of controllers and user-interfaces (for systems that are not fully automated). Another aspect of her work is characterization of biomedical systems using control theoretic techniques. In collaboration with neurologists who focus on Parkinson's disease and neurosurgeons who focus on traumatic brain injury, her group aims to identify potential biomarkers through system identification and dynamical system analysis. For more, visit Oishi's research, awards, publications and background.