The Panelists
Stig O. Johnsen
Dr. Johnsen is a senior researcher at SINTEF in Norway. He has a PhD from NTNU in Norway with a focus on resilience in complex socio-technical systems and has a Master of Technology Management from MIT/NTNU. He is chairing the Human Factors in Control network (HFC) in Norway to strengthen the Human Factors focus during development and implementation of safety critical technology. His research interest has been meaningful human control to support safety and resilience during automation and digitalization. Chair of Accident and Incident Modelling - European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA)
Marija Slavkovik
Dr. Slavkovik is a Professor with the Faculty for Social Sciences of the University of Bergen. She is a computer scientist who does research in AI and chair of the department of Information Science and Media Studies at UiB. She works in AI Ethics and is interested specifically in issues of machine ethics: how do we build machines (or rather how do we program them) so that they behave ethically. Marija specifically works on automating ethical collective decision-making. Marija is motivated by the phenomenon of autonomous systems increasingly becoming moral arbitrators by virtue of the dissipation of the machine-society segregation.
Lance Fiondella
Dr. Fiondella is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the Director of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Cybersecurity Center, a NSA/DHS designated Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research (CAE-R). He also holds a joint faculty appointment with the United States Army Research Laboratory. He conducts research in the areas of software and system reliability and resilience, including autonomous systems. His research has been funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security, NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, United States Department of Defense, and National Science Foundation, including a CAREER Award.
Carol Smidts
Dr. Smidts a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University. Her research lies in risk and reliability analysis and in human factors, instrumentation and control, including human reliability analysis, probabilistic analysis of dynamics for complex systems, reliability analysis of digital instrumentation and control systems, software reliability modeling and software test automation, and distributed test facility design. Additionally, she is the author of more than 180 refereed journal and conference publications, as well as the recipient of multiple awards and 3 patents. Her research has been sponsored by Government (DOE, AFSOR, AFRL, NRC, NASA, NSF, FAA, DOD, NSA) as well as by industry (Texas Instruments, IBM). She is an IEEE Fellow, and was the conference co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (2006 and 2013), IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering (2008), NPIC-HMIT (2019), and technical program chair for Probabilistic Safety Assessment (2021), an Associate Editor for Software Testing Verification and Reliability, and she is the Vice Chair of ANS’ Human Factors Instrumentation and Control Division (HFICD).
