Rate My Professor Ami Eidels

Professor Ami Eidels is a Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences, School of Science, within the College of Engineering, Science and Environment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He completed his PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Tel Aviv University under Professor Daniel Algom, followed by postdoctoral training in Mathematical Psychology at Indiana University with Professor James Townsend. He then joined the University of Newcastle as faculty in the School of Psychology and has progressed to his current professorial role. Eidels supervises PhD students in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, and related fields, having completed supervision of 13 theses on topics such as cognitive capacity limits, behavioral measurement of cognitive workload, and sequential effects in human performance.

His research focuses on information-processing models of human cognition, investigating how various sources of information are processed and combined, and how cognitive workload affects processing efficiency and cognitive system capacity in laboratory and applied settings. With his students, he scales up cognitive modeling and machine learning techniques to study performance in human-human and human-bot teams, conducting lab-based experiments and developing models of human cognition in collaboration with Defence and industry partners. Eidels has secured 24 research grants totaling $8,132,407, including ARC-funded projects such as 'A new framework for decision making under internal and external demands' ($601,440, 2026-2028), 'Human Scheduling of Perceptual Tasks' ($148,029, 2024-2026), and 'Quantitative psychological theories for a dynamic world' ($383,115, 2020-2023), as well as Department of Defence grants like 'Cohesive and Robust Human-Bot Cybersecurity Teams' ($756,538, 2021-2024) and 'Optimising the Warfighter cognobiome' ($3,503,200, 2021-2024). Key publications include the co-authored book 'The Oxford Handbook of Computational and Mathematical Psychology' (2015), chapters such as 'Bridge-Building: SFT Interrogation of Major Cognitive Phenomena' (2017) and 'Features of Response Times: Identification of Cognitive Mechanisms through Mathematical Modeling' (2015), and recent conference papers like 'Enhancing Marine Navigation Performance Using the Head-Up Interface' (2024). His fields of research encompass cognition (40%), sensory processes, perception and performance (30%), and psychological methodology, design and analysis (30%).