Staff Page - Tammy Ott

Ms. Tammy Ott started working at Smart Information Flow Technologies in May 2007. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Psychology from St. Norbert College in 2004 and a master's degree in Experimental Psychology (Human Factors) from Texas Tech University in 2007. She is currently ABD in Experimental Psychology (Human Factors) from Texas Tech University, anticipated Ph.D. 2010.

Prior to working at SIFT, Ms. Ott was heavily involved in research while being enrolled in an Experimental Psychology doctoral program at Texas Tech University. Under various research topics (such as attention, visual illusions and unconscious performance effects of stereotypes) she has designed, implemented, and conducted various experiments. During these efforts she has also analyzed and reported data. Her research efforts have resulted in four proceedings papers (one nominated for the Chapanis award, best student paper, at the 2007 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting). She also received the Chancellor's Fellowship while at Texas Tech.

As a research scientist at SIFT, Ms. Ott has worked on data analysis for a Phase II Air Force SBIR entitled Culture, Etiquette, and Performance and Phase I DARPA SBIR entitled Rapid and Accurate Idea Transfer. She was responsible for the preliminary design of experiments for the Phase I OSD SBIR entitled Sensing using Physical and Psychological Observations for Rehabilitating Troops and the Phase I Air Force SBIR entitled Concepts for the Integrated Visualization of Effects. In addition, Ms. Ott was the technical lead for the Phase I DARPA SBIR entitled ELADIS (SB062-007), with the goal of allowing learning and recognition to occur outside conscious awareness. She was largely responsible for researching the techniques to be used, designing the experiments, and analyzing the results. Currently, Ms. Ott is the co-PI for the Phase II ELADIS SBIR.