Bio

Dr. Pennathur served as an associate professor at the University of Iowa (UI) in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Prior to her work at UI, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at John Hopkins University. Her primary research interests are in studying people’s cognitive work and in designing information systems to support their cognitive work. Dr. Pennathur's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Library of Medicine at NIH. In a recent NSF project funded in 2020, she is modeling nurses’ decision-making when tele-triaging during the pandemic. She also received an NSF grant in September 2021 to study how artificial intelligence will impact office work and workers. Dr. Pennathur earned her doctoral degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from UTEP, and a master's and bachelor's in computer science from the University of Madras in Chennai, India. While at UI, Dr. Pennathur received the 2018 Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academia from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Additional awards recognizing her work in ergonomics include the 2014 International Ergonomics Association (IEA Liberty Mutual Medal and the 2014 Liberty Mutual Award for Best Article in Ergonomics. Dr. Pennathur is a scientific editor for the journal Applied Ergonomics and an associate editor for IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering. She serves on the Editorial Board of Human Factors in Healthcare, and the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics. Dr. Pennathur serves as a reviewer in many research journals including the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. She continues to serve as an NSF panelist for many NSF programs.

• Ph D in Industrial Engineering, University at Buffalo (2010)

Publications

• Incorporating Research Pedagogies for Teaching Work Systems Design and Measurement IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2024 (in press), Arunkumar Pennathur, Priyadarshini R. Pennathur, Amir Momenipour, Luis R. Contreras Sapien.

Presentations

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• NRT: Design for Equity in Policies, Products, Processes, Places and Pedagogy for People: A transdisciplinary approach to graduate research training
• Assuring Medication Safety in K-12 Schools: Implementing and Evaluating the Electronic School Medication Administration Record (eSMAR) System