Salvador Rojas-Murillo has graduated in 2017. He is now an assistant professor at Hofstra University, NY.  His previous work experience includes a plant engineer position for VF Jeanswear (Lee/Wrangler) and a production supervisor role for Blinds to go in NJ. He also worked as a Professor for multiple Industrial Engineering courses in Business and Engineering for different Universities in Mexico. He was also head of the IE department of Vasco University also in Mexico, and as a graduate assistant in the area of Operations Improvement in The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, where is conducting discrete simulation models to improve patient experience in different areas of the hospital. He is currently employed as an Assistant Professor at Hofstra University, NY.

His research interest is concentrated in the area of visual cognition. His research seeks to identify the visual perception differences in visual scan patterns for assembly tasks in virtual and real environment. Moreover, he is also seeking to understand what drives the human’s over attention for assembly tasks and the relationship between visual scan patterns and the acquisition of experience.

Mr. Rojas-Murillo is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. During his BS studies he was the president founder of the IISE student’s chapter #853. He is a recipient of the excellence scholarship from the Mexican National council of Science and Technology (CONACYT).