Dr. Matthew L. Bolton

Associate Professor of Systems Engineering
Director of the Formal Human Systems Laboratory
University of Virginia

The Formal Human Systems Laboratory

Dr. Bolton and the formal human systems laboratory study why engineered systems fail and how to prevent failures through human-centered systems engineering. Dr. Bolton is an expert on the use of formal, mathematical methods in human factors engineering, particularly for discovering engineering oversights that lead to human behavior, error, and cognition contributing to failures. Methods developed in the lab are applied to safety-critical applications in aerospace, medicine, defense, and cybersecurity.