Mike Rayo, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering, Core Faculty in the Translational Data Analytics Institute and
Director of the Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory at The Ohio State University. He is also a Patient Safety scientific advisor at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. His research focuses on devising new design and evaluation strategies that result in integrated human-machine teams that support joint cognition for resilient performance. His work spans multiple scales, from small teams to intra-organizational dynamics to societal scale teaming. His work in joint human-machine activity including alarm design and management, visual analytics, computerized decision support, and communication has been funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Ohio Department of Health, Eurocontrol, the American Nurses Foundation, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. He has published numerous papers on human-machine systems and patient safety, and serves on multiple patient safety committees and advisory groups. He was also the Case Western Reserve University Dance Champion in 1997.