2020 WEST: Premier Sea Services Event San Diego

Jamie Lukos, Ph.D.
Business Portfolio Manager, Battlespace Awareness
Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific


Dr. Jamie Lukos is the Battlespace Awareness Business Portfolio Manager at the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific in the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Department. In this role, she oversees ~180 projects to help senior leadership to develop the strategic technical direction of NIWC Pacific through an understanding of internal projects and priorities in the Battlespace Awareness domain. Additionally, the NIWC Pacific Business Portfolio Managers help to be the interface between NIWC Pacific and industry by building connections and accelerating relationships through external engagements. Prior to this role, she was the branch head of the Intelligent Sensing Branch in the Basic and Applied Research Division supervising a wide variety of complex, ground-breaking research focused on creating novel materials for sensor development, enabling robust non-linear dynamical systems, and sensing agent state changes for enhanced human-machine interactions, among other critical Navy-relevant pursuits. She is also a scientist and subject matter expert in neuroscience with 22 publications, 2 book chapters, and 2 patent applications. Her current work focuses on dynamic measurements of operators during human-autonomy interactions and mobile brain imaging during demanding physical and cognitive tasks. Her work leads to a better understanding of the neurological basis of human decision making in operationally-relevant environments and informs algorithm development for future physiological monitoring devices, human-machine teaming bi-directional communication and fieldable brain computer interfaces. Prior to joining NIWC, she gained an expertise in multi-modal human sensing in noisy, real-world environments as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Army Research Laboratory’s Translational Neuroscience Branch and at UCSD's Institute for Neural Computation. She received her PhD from Arizona State University where she worked in the Neural Control of Movement laboratory studying anticipatory grasp control and human decision making in unpredictable settings and her BS from the University of Michigan, where she worked in the Human Neuromechanics Laboratory.

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