Mohsen Moghaddam joined Georgia Tech in January with a joint appointment as the Gary C. Butler Family Associate Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Learn about his journey to Georgia Tech, his research related to human-centered systems engineering, what he enjoys about working in academia, and more in this Q&A.  

Welcome to Georgia Tech! How did you make the decision to become a Yellow Jacket?

Thank you! It’s truly an honor to be a member of the Yellow Jacket family. My decision to join Georgia Tech was driven by the fact that it offers one of the leading engineering programs in the nation, particularly in ISyE and mechanical engineering. I was also intrigued by the unique opportunity to collaborate with both schools to enhance the interdisciplinary nature of my work. And of course I’m excited to experience Southern culture, hospitality, and life in Atlanta.

You have a joint appointment in the Woodruff School and ISyE – can you tell us more about that?

My research is directly related to ISyE’s new area of specialization, human-centered systems engineering, as well as the Woodruff School’s research area group, computer-aided engineering and design. I’m very excited to contribute to both. I am appointed two-thirds with ISyE and one-third with the Woodruff School. I will be contributing to setting up and operationalizing an extended reality (XR)/human sensing and modeling lab in ISyE and an XR educational lab in the Woodruff School. I will also be offering two cross-listed courses between both schools: Human-Integrated Systems (HIS) and Extended Reality for Engineering (XRE). HIS covers topics such as general cognitive systems engineering concepts and principles, interface design, task analysis, prototyping, and empirical usability evaluation methods. XRE covers XR concepts, hardware, software, industrial applications, user experience/user interface design, C# programming, Unity development, virtual reality/augmented reality interaction design, app development, prototyping, and a hands-on project.

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