Presenter

James Intriligator is Director of Strategic Innovation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (School of Engineering) at Tufts University (Boston, USA). He is a Professor of the Practice in Human Factors Engineering. An interest in vision and the brain originally brought James to Harvard where he earned his Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience (1997). After a postdoc in neurology, he left academia for five years and worked in high-tech consulting firms as a brainstormer and innovation catalyst. In 2003, he merged his business experience with his scientific expertise and went to Bangor University (UK) as a pioneer in the field of consumer psychology. In his 13 years at Bangor, Intriligator created Europe's leading consumer psychology master's programs and co-developed several multidisciplinary design programs (Enterprise by Design and Social Enterprise Accelerator). He was named a UK National Teaching Fellow in 2014. He joined Tufts University in 2016 to lead the university’s renowned Human Factors Engineering program into its next phase of innovation and growth. Intriligator is the author of over 50 publications in fields as diverse as neuroscience, neurology, consumer psychology, physics, and literary criticism. Intriligator’s latest applied research is primarily in the domain of developing next-generation human-machine systems. This broad area covers everything from assistive and social robots, to baggage screeners, to VR systems, to military and medical devices. His theoretical and practitioner research is in the domains of design, design thinking, transversal analysis, and philosophy. In addition to his work within the university, he also works with global organizations as well as local social-enterprise and social-justice groups. Since arriving at Tufts Intriligator has been nominated for a Tufts Distinction Award, shortlisted for Professor of the Year, and won a university-wide Teaching with Technology award.