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The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory is fully funded by grants. We are grateful for all of our sponsors!

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Current Research Sponsors

National Science Foundation

Institute for AI-Enabled Societal Decision Making (AI-SDM)

Coty Gonzalez is the Co-Principal Investigator and Institute's Research Co-Director. This collaboration brings together AI researchers and social scientists to develop tools for societal challenges.


Army Research Office

Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI): Cyber Autonomy through Robust Learning and Effective Human-Bot Teaming

Coty Gonzalez is a Co-Investigator working in collaboration with Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin; Lujo Bauer, CMU, and other universities in the USA and Australia to investigate how humans and bots can collaborate to develop better cyberdefense strategies.

Former Research Sponsors

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA): ReSCIND

Impact of Cognition on Cyber Behavior
(2024-2025)

The IARPA ReSCIND program aims to improve cybersecurity by understanding how human cognition impacts cyber behavior and could affect cyber actors success in network attack activities. Specifically, well-established cognitive patterns, such as loss aversion and the representativeness bias, will be investigated as potentially mitigating factors in the efficacy of cyber attack behavior.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): DARPA ASIST

An Integrated Theory of Human-Machine Teaming
(2019-2024)

In collaboration with Anita Woolley and Henny Admoni, to develop an Integrated Theory of Human-Machine Teaming that brings together research on individual and team cognition into a Socio-Cognitive Architecture that integrates with a Machine Theory of Mind (M-ToM).

Army Research Office: Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI)

An Integrated Theory of Human-Machine Teaming
(2015-2024)

In collaboration with Milind Tambe, Harvard University; Christian Lebiere, and Lujo Bauer, CMU, and others to develop adaptive and personalized cyberdefense strategies.

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

TRUS'M: Behavioral Models, Methods & Metrics for Trust Establishment, Maintenance and Repair in Human Machine Co-Training
(2022-2023)

Coty Gonzalez was the Principal Investigator for this project that aimed at developing and advancing theories, methods and technologies to study and address the capabilities that promote and maintain mutual understanding between humans and machines.

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

Establishing the Science of Understanding for Effective Human-Autonomy Teaming
(2020-2022)

CyLab Seeding Grant

Personalized Phishing Detection Training Using Cognitive Models
(2021-2022)

Army Research Office

Scaling up Models of Decisions from Experience: Information and Incentives in Networks
(2017-2021)

In collaboration with The Statistics and Data Science Department CSAFE group, at Carnegie Mellon University.

Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Development of Cooperation and Conflict in Social Interactions
(2009-2014)

In collaboration with Christian Lebiere, at Carnegie Mellon University.

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

Training Dynamic Decision Making in Mine Emergency Situations
(2009-2011)

National Science Foundation

Hypothesis Generation & Feedback in Dynamic Decision Making
(2006-2009)

In collaboration with Rickey Thomas, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Oklahoma & Robert Hamm, Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Director of Clinical Decision Making Program at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Army Research Office

Training Decision Making Skills
(2005-2009)

In collaboration with Alice Healy, Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Lyle Bourne, Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Faculty Fellow of Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder; & Robert Proctor, Professor of Psychology at Purdue University.

Army Research Laboratory

Cognitive Process Modeling and Measurement in Dynamic Decision Making
(2002-2009)

In collaboration with Alice Healy, Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder; Lyle Bourne, Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Faculty Fellow of Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder; & Robert Proctor, Professor of Psychology at Purdue University.

Richard Lounsbery Foundation

PeaceMaker-Based Research for Decision Making and Diplomacy
(2007-2008)

In collaboration with Kiron Skinner, Associate Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and History & Laurie Eisenberg, Associate Teaching Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University.

Argonne National Laboratory

Determinants of Public Confidence in Government to Prevent Terrorism
(2008)

In collaboration with Ignacio Martinez-Moyano and Michael Samsa of Argonne National Labs.

Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, Carnegie Mellon University: PITA Program

Learning from the Past: Improving Estimation of Future Construction Projects
(2005-2006)

In collaboration with Burcu Akinci, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

National Institute of Mental Health: Training Grant

Training in Combined Computational and Behavioral Approaches to Cognition
(2002-2006)

In collaboration with Lynne Reder, Professor of Psychology and Director of Memory Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.

Army Research Laboratory

Cognitive Process Modeling and Measurement in Dynamic Decision Making
(2001-2006)

In collaboration with Mica Endsley, President of SA Technologies.

Office of Naval Research

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. Cognitive, Biological and Computational Analyses of Automaticity in Complex Cognition
(2001-2006)

In collaboration with Marcel Just, D.O. Hebb Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging (CCBI) at Carnegie Mellon University; Walter Schneider, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh; & Poornima Madhavan, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Old Dominion University.

Office of Naval Research

Small Business Innovation Research. Automated Communication Analysis for Interactive Situation Awareness Assessment
(2004)

In collaboration with Mica Endsley, President of SA Technologies & Cheryl Bolstad, Senior Research Associate at SA Technologies.

Carnegie Mellon University Berkman Faculty Development Fund

Perception and Attention Effects on Learning Dynamic Decision Making Tasks
(2001)