Biography

Casey Canfield is an Associate Professor in Engineering Management & Systems Engineering at the Missouri University of Science & Technology. She quantifies the human part of complex systems to improve decision-making and policymaking in the context of energy, rural broadband, and healthcare. She leads multi-sector, cross-disciplinary, stakeholder-centered teams for problem-oriented research. Across domains, she conducts participatory research, collaborating with people who are ultimately impacted by a technology. She has collaborated with many organizations for external grants ranging from rural electric cooperatives to non-profits to other academic institutions.

Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Solar Foundation, US Ignite, Mid-America Transplant Foundation, Public Interest Technology University Network, Missouri Department of Transportation, U.S. Army, and U.S. Department of Education. Her research has been published in PNAS, Renewable Energy, Government Information Quarterly, and Human Factors.

She also serves on the advisory board of the Missouri Science & Technology (MOST) Policy Fellowship and the Missouri Energy Initiative. She has a PhD in Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Engineering: Systems from Olin College of Engineering. After completing her PhD, she was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office. She was primarily involved in designing and managing programs that aim to increase innovation and reduce soft costs in the energy sector.

Disciplines

socio-technical systems, human machine interfaces, technology adoption, risk management, decision support, participatory research

Education

• 2016 – Ph.D. in Engineering & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
• 2010 – B.S. in Engineering: Systems, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering