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2017 Officers

2017 Officers

Person with pink hair wearing a black shirt smiles against a plain background. Sarah Williams is the UCF HFES Student Chapter President.  When she is not working in the lab, she can be found hunting Pokemon and organizing student events.

A person wearing sunglasses and a headset smiles while piloting a small aircraft, with a landscape view visible through the window.Caitlin Faerevaag is the Vice President.  She is a Human Factors researcher and Ph.D. student with research interests in Aviation, Crew Resource Management, and Human-Robot Interaction. As seen in this picture, she isn’t scared of heights.

  • Portrait of a person with long dark hair, wearing a black top, smiling against a dark gradient background.Dawn Sarno is the Secretary of the student chapter.  Her hobbies include studying, studying, and studying.  When she’s not studying, she is at student chapter meetings taking down the minutes.

    A person wearing glasses, a multicolored dress, and a black blazer stands in front of a dark background, smiling at the camera.Eva Parkhurst is the treasurer.  In addition to her work on aging and robotics, she is also an expert in the care and raising of gray cats.

    A person in a suit with a rose boutonniere stands outside, looking serious, with houses and water in the background.Keith, or Mac has he prefers, is our social chair.  Mac successfully completed and defended his undergraduate honors thesis on the deindividuation of automotive drivers in the Summer of 2014. He has since been given a post Baccalaureate internship with the laboratory where he has been promoted to the position of Laboratory Manager. His interests in academia and research include cognitive psychology, deception detection, and human factors.

    A man with a beard and a black shirt stands indoors, smiling at the camera.  Billy is our historian.  He studies robots and he swears that there’s not a robot writing this bio right now.

      A person with long dark hair and a black hoodie looks directly at the camera, with a neutral expression. Alexandra “Xan” Kaplan is the web master.  Her interests include human robot interaction, climbing, and sporadically updating the HFES student chapter website.