Dr. Cleotilde Gonzalez

Biography

Coty Gonzalez is a Research Professor specializing in Social Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a lifetime fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, serving on the Governing Board and the Advisory Committee of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences Education at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. An accomplished academic, Coty has been a Senior Editor for Cognitive Science topics and a Consulting Editor for Decision, among other editorial roles. Her extensive research output includes hundreds of papers in peer-reviewed journals, contributing to fields such as cybersecurity, network science, and human-machine teaming. As the Principal Co-Investigator on significant multi-million dollar research efforts funded by agencies like the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Labs, her work focuses on decision-making under dynamic conditions. She uses dynamic decision-making games and computational cognitive modeling to understand how decision-makers adapt and learn in changing environments. Furthermore, Coty actively mentors graduate students interested in this area of research.

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