Resume

• 2015

  MetroStar Systems

  Northern Virginia Community College

  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

  JQ Scientific

  LLC

  Loudoun

  VA

  Taught introductory psychology courses\nMotivated students to engage with the material\nExplained topics in an easy to understand manner.

  Adjunct Psychology Faculty

  Northern Virginia Community College

  Fairfax

  VA

  -Studied several topics: habit development (dissertation)

  virtual reality training

  multitasking

  distress tolerance

  bicycling safety \n-Designed many experiments

  including three multi-month daily diary studies for dissertation\n-Piloted new survey questions (several projects)\n-Conducted think-aloud protocols and reviewed qualitative feedback\n-Recruited in-person participants (often completed goals in less than two weeks)\n-Learned neuromethods—estimated mental workload with a measure of blood flow velocity in the brain (transcranial doppler sonography)\n-Trained and mentored five undergraduate research assistants\n-Mastered R (e.g.

  wrote over 2

  000 lines of code for dissertation)\n-Presented dissertation in under 10 minutes to committee\n-Conducted research for different military groups (Office of Naval Research

  Marine Corps

  and Army Research Lab)\n\nCourses taught as an instructor:\n1. Research Methods in Psychology\n2. Statistics for Psychology Majors\n3. Cognitive Psychology\n\nCourses taught as a teaching assistant:\n1. Graduate Introductory Statistics\n2. Cognition & Perception \n3. Graduate Bayesian Statistics\n

  Human Factors Graduate Student Researcher

  George Mason University

  Reston

  Virginia

  -Conducted Interviews and led focus groups\n-Impacted the design of mobile apps by making them relevant to non-Western markets\n-Wireframed for mobile and web\n-Collaborated with designers and developers\n-Wrote small business innovative research (SBIR) grants\n-Reviewed cognitive and human factors literature for stakeholders\n-Analyzed Google Analytics Data\n

  UX Researcher

  MetroStar Systems

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Responsible for overseeing experiments in the Night Vision Lab at Fort Belvoir\n-Design and counterbalance perception experiments\n-Program experimental software\n-Advise customers on the best research practices and make practical compromises\n-Collect data onsite \n-Analyzing human performance data\n

  Engineering Psychologist

  Planned Systems International

  Japanese

  Honors in Psychology B.S.

  George Mason University

  Dean's List

  All undergraduate semesters

  George Mason University

• 2013

  Naval Surface Warfare Center

  Planned Systems International

  Self-taught data management with R via stackoverflow

  rseek.org

  and R-help. Data analysis enabled coworkers to prioritize engineering efforts in future work

  Naval Surface Warfare Center

  UX Research Consultant

  Created custom online human perception experiments for Intel Inc \n-Made data collection cheaper and faster than in-person studies\n-Obtained a high correlation (.97) with in-person experiments\n-Published results in a peer-reviewed journal\n-Hired programmers and managed software development on AWS server\n\nPiloted four-month hypoxia training protocol for the Air Force\n-Showed how hypoxia research is relevant to pilots and ground troops\n-Presented results to US Air Force in Santiago

  Chile\n-Obtained interest in follow-up research\n\nAnalyzed how patients use a hospital mobile app\n-Reported user engagement with statistics and data visualizations\n

  JQ Scientific

  LLC

  Human Factors Research Intern (NREIP)

  Designed and conducted a multi-week eye tracking experiment\nExtensively used R—analyzed data from sensors and eye trackers\nImproved the design of multi-tasking experiments

  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

• 2012

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Psychology

  Human Factors and Applied Cognition

  George Mason University

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Psychology

  Human Factors and Applied Cognition

  George Mason University

• 2008

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

  Psychology

  George Mason University

• Research

  Science

  Linear Regression

  R

  Survey Design

  Qualitative Research

  Cognitive Interviewing

  Teaching

  Human Factors

  Research Design

  Statistical Data Analysis

  Missing Data

  Psychology

  Experimental Design

  Statistical Programming

  Statistics

  University Teaching

  Quantitative Research

  Statistical Modeling

  Data Analysis

  Online subjective testing for consumer-photo quality evaluation

  We take a look at crowdsourcing for subjective image quality evaluation using real image stimuli with nonsimulated distortions. Our aim is to scale the task of subjectively rating images while ensuring maximal data validity and accuracy. While previous work has begun to explore crowdsourcing for quality assessment

  it has either used images that are not representative of popular consumer scenarios or used crowdsourcing to collect data without comparison to experiments in a controlled environment. Here

  we address the challenges imposed by the highly variable online environment

  using stimuli that are subtle and more complex than has traditionally been used in quality assessment experiments. In a series of experiments

  we vary different design parameters and demonstrate how they impact the subjective responses obtained. Of the parameters examined are stimulus display mode

  study length

  stimulus habituation

  and content homogeneity/heterogeneity. Our method was tested on a database that was rated in a laboratory test previously. Once our design parameters were chosen

  we rated a database of consumer photographs and are making this data available to the research community.

  Online subjective testing for consumer-photo quality evaluation

  Jake

  Quartuccio

  George Mason University