Dr. Priyadarshini Pennathur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa. After receiving her doctoral degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from SUNY at Buffalo in 2010, she spent two years as a post-doctoral research scholar at Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins before joining University of Iowa faculty in 2012. Her research interests include cognitive engineering, information systems, with applications in healthcare systems, office work, and DEI. In particular, her research focuses on understanding how healthcare workers use information and information systems to support their cognitive work. Her more recent research interests include understanding the role of artificial intelligence in the office of the future and examining barriers and facilitators for URM undergraduate engineering student success. She is a scientific editor in Applied Ergonomics and associate editor in IISE Transactions in Healthcare Systems Engineering. She is the 2018 recipient of the Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academic Award from the Institute of Industrial Systems Engineers.