Company: Parallax Advanced Research
Company Description: Parallax is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that tackles global challenges by accelerating innovation and developing technology and solutions through strategic partnerships with government, industry and academia across Ohio and the Nation. Together with academia, Parallax accelerates innovation that leads to new breakthroughs. Together with government, Parallax tackles critical global challenges and deliver
Nomination Category: Technology Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Technical Professional of the Year
 Nomination Title: Dr. Mary Frame
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Dr. Mary Frame is a rising star researcher at Parallax Advanced Research and has been contributing her expertise to Parallax’s research and development efforts since 2015. Dr. Frame works on multi-domain intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance research and has disseminated her research results at multiple national and international professional society conferences. She has also been published in scientific journals, including Behavior Research Methods and Decision. Dr. Frame is credited with developing novel research projects for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and others on behalf of Parallax.
As a research psychologist, Dr. Frame focuses her study on how humans relate to and utilize technology, how they understand it and how they make professional decisions when interacting with technologies. This plays a significant role in the overall research and development work that Parallax has trademarked the Science of Intelligent Teaming™. Parallax defines the Science of Intelligent Teaming™ as basic and applied research of highly diverse artificial intelligence, machine and human teams and how they interact and perform with one another. Parallax utilizes the Science of Intelligent Teaming™ to deliver innovative research and provide technology, human and business solutions for government, industry and academic clients with critical challenges.
Dr. Frame’s educational background includes a Ph.D. in Psychology with a Concentration in Brain and Cognitive Science and Graduate Certificates in Applied Statistics and College Teaching from Miami University, an M.B.A. with a Concentration in Marketing from Wright State University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Criminal Justice from Baldwin-Wallace College.
Dr. Frame is the recipient of multiple competitive funding awards, including Chief Scientist Seedling 2018, Dissertation Scholar Award 2016-2017 from the Department of Psychology at Miami University and the Repperger Research Fellowship Award 2015 from the AFRL. She hopes to continue travelling to enrich her scientific pursuits.
Bottom Line – Dr. Mary Frame is soaring to the stars by applying her knowledge and passion of cognitive research to improve overall human machine interfaces. Her foundational research will not only benefit the Nation’s defense sector, but also offers the potential of improved operations in the commercial sector.
Dr. Frame’s Body of Knowledge
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- Led $97.5M for the Air Force’s Mission Analytics Technology and Research for Innovative eXploitation (MATRIX) contract. MATRIX improves human-machine teaming, human performance, and psychological processes & indicators.
- Parallax’s lead on National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Big-R Program researching dynamically measured cognitive states, human performance, and task behavior during decision-making tasks.
- Developed Autonomous Manager for dynamically managing and allocating tasks within human-machine teams to improve multi-task performance. This tool improves human monitoring and controlling of tasks as compared to autonomous agent task execution.
- Founding member of Parallax’s Office of Innovation and serves on Parallax’s Focus Group to improve business and technical processes
- Published 5 peer-reviewed articles including Human Factors, Spatial Cognition and Computation, Journal of Defense Modeling & Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, & Military Psychology.
- Presented at premiere events: Applied Human Factors & Ergonomics Society, Military Operations Research, Air Force Modeling & Simulation Summit
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