Collaborate with Us

Under the leadership of Dr. David Schuster, the VECTR Lab conducts research on human cognition and performance in complex, safety critical domains such as cybersecurity, healthcare, and aviation.

Capabilities

The VECTR Lab is housed in the Department of Psychology at San José State University. Our physical facilities include research work space and human-subjects research facilities. In a typical semester, the lab serves aproximately 20 undergraduate and graduate students. Our capabilities include:

• Research design, theory development, and analysis
  • Ability to stand-up teams to quickly conduct literature reviews and prepare annotated bibliographies
  • Extensive and well-curated reference library covering situation awareness, automation, decision making, and more
  • Mixed methods fluency, incorporating both quantatitve statistical analyses and open-ended qualitative research
  • Lab-wide use of R and SPSS for univariate and multivariate statistical analyses
• Data collection
  • 100% remote-ready data collection
  • IRB-compliant electronic data collection using Qualtrics
  • Undergraduate research participation through the psychology department pool
  • Generalizable protocol for knowledge elicitation research using concept mapping
• Proposal writing and project management
  • The lab has been NSF-funded since 2016, including a CAREER Award
  • Dr. David Schuster has been PI/co-PI on over $1M in external funding at SJSU
• Location
  • SJSU is a large, comprehensive University in the heart of Silicon Valley
  • Affiliation with two graduate programs: M.A in Research and Experimental Psychology and M.S. in Human Factors/Ergonomics
  • SJSU is a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI) and minority-serving institution (MSI) as defined by the US Department of Education

For Students

Please visit vectrlab.net/join.

In order to better serve SJSU students, I cannot mentor high school students or volunteers who have already graduated (postbacc) through the lab.

For Industry Professionals

We are seeking cybersecurity professionals in organizations of any size to participate in our knowledge elicitation research. Visit our recuitment web site or contact Dr. Schuster if you may be able to help.

For Academics

We are interested in collaborations with researchers that would allow us to collaborate on large, multi-institution projects.