Mohd Umair Iqbal

Mohd Umair Iqbal joined the HILCPS group as a PhD scholar in 2017. He pursued his bachelor's degree from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar, India. He obtained his Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India. After his masters, he worked as an Assistant Professor at NIT Srinagar.

Umair is involved in various research activities encompassing the field of safety and risk assessment. His main area of interest is the study of human reliability. He is actively researching the performance and reliability of control room operators using cognitive engineering approaches. His research on process safety focuses on human error. He is actively working on the cognitive aspects of control room operator performance using electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking, to understand the neural and psychological underpinnings of human performance.

His other interests include playing badminton, chess, and writing columns for newspapers.