Cleotilde Gonzalez
Research Professor, Social & Decision Sciences
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Cleotilde (Coty) Gonzalez is a research professor of decision sciences in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences and the founding director of the Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab) at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also affiliated to the Security and Privacy Institute (CyLab), the Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR Opens in new window) and other research centers at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work focuses on the experimental studies and computational representations of the cognitive processes involved in decisions from experience in dynamic environments.
She is a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Opens in new window and member of the Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society Opens in new window. She is part of editorial boards of various prestigious journals including: Cognitive Science Journal Opens in new window, Decision, the Journal of Experimental Psychology-General Opens in new window, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Opens in new window, the Human Factors Journal Opens in new window, and the System Dynamics Review Opens in new window. Gonzalez has published hundreds of papers in journals and peer-reviewed proceedings involving a diverse set of fields deriving from her contributions to Cognitive Science. Her work includes the development of a theory of decisions from experience called Instance-Based Learning Theory (IBLT) Opens in new window, from which many computational models have emerged in areas as diverse as: cybersecurity, network science, human-machine teaming, and others. She has been principal or co-investigator on a wide range of multi-million and multi-year collaborative efforts with government and industry, including current efforts on Collaborative Research Alliances; Multi-University Research Initiative grants from the Army Research Laboratories Opens in new window and Army Research Office Opens in new window; and large collaborative projects with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA Opens in new window).
Gonzalez has mentored more than 30 post-doctoral fellows and doctoral students, many of whom have pursued successful academic and industry careers.
She is an avid painter and biker Opens in new window, activities that she enjoys in her free time.
Her full CV can be downloaded from her personal webpage Opens in new window.
Education
1996 Ph.D. Management Information Systems, Texas Tech University
1992 M.Sc. Management Information System, Texas Tech University
1990 M.B.A. Business, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla
1986 B.Sc. Business & Engineering, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla
Research Interests
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Carnegie Bosch Institute
Meet Jinfeng Lou, CBI fellow addressing urban challenges
As a new CBI fellow, Jinfeng Lou, hopes to on creating robust, adaptable models that incorporate real-time data from sensors, environmental indicators, and human behavior during emergencies such as subway flooding.
Carnegie Bosch Institute
Cross-departmental faculty collaboration with CBI Fellow
Faculty members Pingbo Tang and Cleotilde Gonzalez are working together with CBI Fellow Jinfeng Lou to help solve subway flooding in urban areas using AI and human solutions.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab researchers awarded MURI grant to study human-bot teams
Lujo Bauer, Matt Fredrikson, and Cleotilde Gonzalez are part of a team of researchers that was named a winner of a prestigious US Department of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Phishing, fairness, and more: CyLab’s 2021 seed funding awardees
Over $350K in seed funding has been awarded to 14 different faculty and staff in seven different departments across three colleges at CMU.