Dr. Kara Latorella, of NASA Langley's Crew Systems & Aviation Operations Branch, currently serves as the Associate PI for the Operator Performance (L2), Operator Characterization (L1), and Multi-Modal Interfaces (L1) elements of IIFD. Prior to this assignment, she worked in the Aviation Weather Information (AWIN) project. In this capacity, she collected oculometer data on GA pilots in flight operations to characterize attention distribution, and investigated issues associated with the presentation of weather information to improve general aviation pilots' decision making. She has served on the Orbiter Cockpit Avionics Upgrade Independent Assessment team, and two mishap investigations as the human factors consultant. Dr. Latorella received a B.S. in Human Factors from Cornell University, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her graduate research was sponsored by a NASA Graduate Student Researcher Fellowship, receiving the Aerospace Human Factors Association's Roscoe Dissertation award, and she participated in NASA Langley's National Research Council post-doctoral program prior to being assimilated as a civil servant.