Ann Speed

Cognitive & Emerging Computing

Cognitive & Emerging Computing

aespeed@sandia.gov

(505) 845-0143

Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
P.O. Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-1327

Biography

I have been doing research on how to make analysts more effective for several years – mostly in the visual search domain by conducting human subjects experiments in what I call "near operational" environments. I’m also increasingly interested in the overlap, and gap, between laboratory-based research and theory and the phenomena we observe in operational and near-operational environments.

Education

PhD in Cognitive Psychology in 1999. Have done work in a large number of domains here at Sandia ranging from Insider Threat, computational cognitive modeling, assessment of neurotechnologies and the future of neurotech, the human side of the IED problem, and the neurophysiology of analogy-making.

Publications

Ann Speed, Jason Wheeler, John Russell, Fred Oppel, Danielle Sanchez, Austin Silva, Anna Chavez , (2021). Characterizing Human Performance: Detecting Targets at High False Alarm Rates [Slides] https://doi.org/10.2172/1897019 Publication ID: 76645

Ann Speed, Jason Wheeler, John Russell, Danielle Sanchez, Austin Silva, Anna Carey Chavez, (2021). CHARACTERIZING HUMAN PERFORMANCE: DETECTING TARGETS AT HIGH FALSE ALARM RATES https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1860299 Publication ID: 77789

Danielle Sanchez, Ann Speed, (2020). The Impact of Individual Traits on Domain Task Performance: Exploring the Dunning-Kruger Effect https://doi.org/10.2172/1716582 Publication ID: 71574

David Stracuzzi, Ann Speed, (2020). Research Needs for Trusted Analytics in National Security Settings https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1832675 Publication ID: 71864

Mallory Stites, Robert Kittinger, james bender, amir neeman, Ann Speed, Austin Silva, Andrew Cox, (2019). Behavioral Analysis in Aviation Security – Coping with Cognitive Load https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1639884 Publication ID: 68305

Ann Speed, Bryana Woo, Camron Kouhestani, Jaclynn Stubbs, Gabriel Birch, (2018). Human Factors in Security Proceedings – International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology https://doi.org/10.1109/CCST.2018.8585640 Publication ID: 63562

Ann Speed, Bryana Woo, Camron Kouhestani, Jaclynn Stubbs, Gabriel Birch, (2018). Physical Security Operators and Cognitive Science https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1592349 Publication ID: 59684

Matthew Hoffman, Amanda Wachtel, John Gauthier, Karina Munoz-Ramos, Jessica Turnley, April Nelson, Ann Speed, Craig Lawton, Robert Kittinger, (2017). Modeling Human-Technology Interactive Effects in Systems of Systems (SoS) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1486991 Publication ID: 54619

Jessica Turnley, Amanda Wachtel, Karina Munoz-Ramos, Matthew Hoffman, John Gauthier, Ann Speed, Robert Kittinger, (2017). Modeling human-technology interaction as a sociotechnical system of systems 2017 12th System of Systems Engineering Conference, SoSE 2017 https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2017.7994934 Publication ID: 54300

Judi See, Colin Drury, Ann Speed, Allison Williams, Negar Khalandi, (2017). The Role of Visual Inspection in the 21st Century https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601548 Publication ID: 56974

Jessica Turnley, Amanda Wachtel, Karina Munoz-Ramos, Matthew Hoffman, John Gauthier, Ann Speed, Robert Kittinger, (2017). Modeling Human-Technology Interaction as a Sociotechnical System of Systems https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2017.7994934 Publication ID: 56277

Amanda Wachtel, Matthew Hoffman, Craig Lawton, Ann Speed, John Gauthier, Robert Kittinger, (2016). Exploring human-technology interaction in layered security military applications Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39399-5_23 Publication ID: 48489

Craig Vineyard, James Aimone, Michael Bernard, Kristofor Carlson, Frances Chance, James Forsythe, Conrad James, Fredrick Rothganger, William Severa, Ann Speed, Stephen Verzi, Christina Warrender, John Wagner, Leann Miller, (2015). Neural Computing at Sandia National Laboratories https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1335732 Publication ID: 41869

Ann Speed, Bonnie Kudrick, (2015). Enhancing Human Performance at the Airport Security Checkpoint:: Human Factors Research at the Transportation Security Administration https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1530659 Publication ID: 45873

Ann Speed, (2015). Visual search in operational environments: Balancing operational constraints with experimental control https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20816-9_51 Publication ID: 44330

Ann Speed, Bonnie Kudrick, Daniel Caggiano, (2015). Human Factors within the Transportation Security Administration: Optimizing performance through human factors assessments https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1263959 Publication ID: 44331

David Stracuzzi, Ann Speed, Michael Haass, Austin Silva, Derek Trumbo, (2015). Exploratory Analysis of Visual Search Data https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20816-9_52 Publication ID: 44649

Ann Speed, Austin Silva, Derek Trumbo, Michael Trumbo, David Stracuzzi, Christina Warrender, Kristin Divis, (2015). Determining the Optimal Time on X-ray Analysis for Transportation Security Officers https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20816-9_79 Publication ID: 44501

Jonathan McClain, Austin Silva, Glory Avina, Kevin Nauer, Ann Speed, Robert Abbott, Laura Matzen, Michael Haass, Derek Trumbo, (2015). Measuring Human Performance within Computer Security Incident Response Teams https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1530979 Publication ID: 43059

Ann Speed, Austin Silva, Derek Trumbo, David Stracuzzi, Christina Warrender, Michael Trumbo, Kristin Divis, (2015). Determining the optimal time on X-ray analysis for transportation security officers Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1238305 Publication ID: 41482

David Stracuzzi, Ann Speed, Austin Silva, Michael Haass, Derek Trumbo, (2015). Exploratory analysis of visual search data Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240345 Publication ID: 42302

Glory Avina, Robert Kittinger, Ann Speed, (2015). A quantitative methodology for identifying attributes which contribute to performance for officers at the transportation security administration Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240835 Publication ID: 42314

Ann Speed, (2015). Visual search in operational environments: Balancing operational constraints with experimental control Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1241117 Publication ID: 42357

Bonnie Kudrick, Daniel Caggiano, Ann Speed, (2015). Human factors within the transportation security administration: Optimizing performance through human factors assessments Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1241269 Publication ID: 42368

Michael Trumbo, Laura Matzen, Austin Silva, Michael Haass, Kristin Divis, Ann Speed, (2015). Through a scanner quickly: Elicitation of P3 in transportation security officers following rapid image presentation and categorization Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20816-9_33 Publication ID: 42170

Laura Matzen, Michael Haass, Austin Silva, Michael Trumbo, Susan Adams, Laura McNamara, Ann Speed, (2014). Effects of Expertise on Domain-General and Domain-Specific Visual Search https://doi.org/10.1037/e524912015-054 Publication ID: 39946

Alfredo Morales, David Franco, Brent Haroldsen, Heidi Ammerlahn, Christopher Moen, Paul Smith, James Phelan, Ann Speed, Nathan Hilton, Chris Aldridge, Jeffrey Jortner, (2013). Third-Party Testing of Transportation Security Equipment https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1666107 Publication ID: 34520

Ann Speed, Craig Vineyard, Joseph Collard, Stephen Verzi, (2012). Diffusion among cognitively complex agents : final report https://doi.org/10.2172/1055582 Publication ID: 30258

Fredrick Rothganger, Christina Warrender, Ann Speed, Brandon Rohrer, Asmeret Naugle, Derek Trumbo, (2011). Connecting Cognitive and Neural Models https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1118518 Publication ID: 25212

Ann Speed, Christina Warrender, (2011). Adversary phase change detection using S.O.M. and text data https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1038179 Publication ID: 21143

Ann Speed, Christina Warrender, (2010). Adversary phase change detection using S.O.M. and text data https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1024473 Publication ID: 19700

Kiran Lakkaraju, Ann Speed, (2010). A cognitive-consistency based model of population wide attitude change https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1044965 Publication ID: 18728

Ann Speed, (2010). Key parameters for modeling information diffusion in populations https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1021117 Publication ID: 18880

Ann Speed, (2010). Key parameters for modeling information diffusion in populations https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1021151 Publication ID: 18929

Adele Doser, Ann Speed, Christina Warrender, (2010). Adversary phase change detection using SOMs and text data https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1020501 Publication ID: 18511

Ann Speed, Stephen Verzi, John Wagner, Christina Warrender, (2010). Proposed comment on Anderson (2010) Neural re-use as a fundamental organizational principle of the brain Behavioral Brain Science https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1124264 Publication ID: 17799

Ann Speed, (2010). Architecture of PFC supports analogy but PFC is not an analogy machine Cognitive Neuroscience https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2010.481359 Publication ID: 17545

Alan Hsu, Ann Speed, (2009). Final Report on LDRD project 130784 : functional brain imaging by tunable multi-spectral Event-Related Optical Signal (EROS) https://doi.org/10.2172/993885 Publication ID: 16807

Ann Speed, (2009). Understanding the neurophysiology of analogy-making through computational modeling https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1142239 Publication ID: 16395

Adele Doser, Ann Speed, Christina Warrender, (2009). Using adversary text to detect adversary phase changes https://doi.org/10.2172/983677 Publication ID: 16175

Adele Doser, Ann Speed, Christina Warrender, (2009). Using adversary text to detect adversary phase changes https://doi.org/10.2172/984942 Publication ID: 16553

James Morrow, Brett Bader, Peter Chew, Ann Speed, (2008). Automated Analysis for Understanding Large Text Corpora: Analyzing text to understand individuals and groups https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1145531 Publication ID: 13119

Ann Speed, (2007). Computational modeling of analogy: Destined to only ever be metaphor? Behavior and Brain Sciences https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1146034 Publication ID: 12285

Ann Speed, (2004). Dynamic context discrimination : psychological evidence for the Sandia Cognitive Framework https://doi.org/10.2172/975242 Publication ID: 3616

James Forsythe, James Forsythe, Ann Speed, Carl Lippitt, Mark Schaller, Patrick Xavier, Edward Thomas, David Schoenwald, (2003). Final report for the endowment of simulator agents with human-like episodic memory LDRD https://doi.org/10.2172/918401 Publication ID: 2736

James Forsythe, James Forsythe, Michael Bernard, Patrick Xavier, Robert Abbott, Ann Speed, Nathan Brannon, (2003). Engineering a transformation of human-machine interaction to an augmented cognitive relationship https://www.osti.gov/biblio/917160 Publication ID: 1830

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Awards & Recognition

2014

Ann Speed, Ann has led, unified and improved national-level Transportation Security Administration (TSA) field research to improve aviation security processes and TSA officer performance., Sandia National Laboratories, April 22, 2014

2011

Ann Speed, Advisory Board Membership: National Research Council of the National Academies Standing Committee on Operational Science & Technology Option for Defeating IEDs, Professional Society, January 1, 2011

Ann Speed, National Research Council of the National Academies study on Making the Soldier Decisive on the Future Battlefield, Professional Society, January 1, 2011

Ann Speed, Patriotic Civilian Service, Department of the Army , For 3.5 years of participation on the National Research Council (of the National Academies) Standing Advisory Board for the Joint IED Defeat Organization., February 10, 2011

2007

Ann Speed, Membership: National Research Council Standing Committee on Operational Science and Technology Options for Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices, National Academies, May 1, 2007