Peter Khooshabeh

Peter Khooshabeh is the regional lead for ARL West, which is the California hub for the United State Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s corporate research laboratory. As the first Open Campus hub for the Army in the West Coast region started in 2016, ARL West focuses on human and information interaction research that will provide fundamental knowledge for new warfighter capabilities, such as augmented and virtual reality interfaces and visualizations. Dr. Khooshabeh oversees the daily operation of a combination of 37 government civilians and contractors, including students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting researchers. Prior to leading ARL West, he was a team leader and research psychologist in the ARL Human Research and Engineering Directorate, embedded as a field office within the Army’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) at the University of Southern California since 2010. Dr. Khooshabeh has been a principle investigator on recent projects that leverage wearable physiological sensors for improved human autonomy teaming; as well as fundamental and applied research on training effectiveness for simulations. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of cognitive science and human-computer interaction. Dr. Khooshabeh has also contributed to research projects across a multitude of government and defense research labs such as the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Lab, NASA Ames Research Center and Air Force Research Lab, in addition to private industry at IBM Research. Dr. Khooshabeh graduated with high honors with a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and earned his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara, all in the field of cognitive science with emphasis in computational modeling.