Susan Chipman

Susan Chipman manages the Cognitive Science program at the U.S. Office of Naval Research, as well as more applied programs in advanced training technology. She is the primary POC for training R&D at ONR. Previously, she was Assistant Director of the National Institute of Education, where she was responsible for managing research programs in mathematics education, cognitive development, computers and education, and social influences on learning and development. Prior to becoming a research manager, her personal research focused on visual pattern perception and its development, and she has also written extensively on the participation of women and minorities in mathematics, science and technology. Books which she has edited are Thinking and Learning Skills, Women and Mathematics: Balancing the Equation, Knowledge Acquisition, Cognitively Diagnostic Assessment and Cognitive Task Analysis. She received an AB in Mathematics, MBA, and AM and PhD in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University and is a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.