Ronald V. Kruk, PhD.                                                 

Manager, Research & Development                        

Military Simulation and Training

CAE Inc.

8585 Cote de Liesse,

St. Laurent, Quebec

Canada   H4T 1G6

Email:  Kruk@CAE.COM

Phone: (514) 341-2000, ext. 2012          FAX: (514) 734-5612                                            

Experience: Canadian Forces - Pilot. 20 years at CAE in R&D projects including the Fibre-Optic HMD (USAF, US Army), manual controls for tele-manipulation and flight control, Enhanced/Synthetic Vision Systems. Basic research areas: Human Sensation and Perception, Motion Sickness, Cognitive Performance and Modelling, Learning.

Professional Activities: Member:  Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Committee on Scholarships and Fellowships; Conference Board of Canada Innovation Council; NATO SAS 034 Working Group on the use of distributed simulation for  training; NATO  MSG 001 Working Group - distributed simulation  for  Modelling and Simulation; SAE G-10 Committee on Aviation Human Factors Standards.

Current Research Interests:

-         human visual performance

-         aviation human factors

-         visual-vestibular-tactile interaction

-         advanced visual displays and image generation systems

-         information processing in C4I systems

-         human performance measurement and modelling

       in networked synthetic environments

-         autonomous sensor networks

Journal and Proceedings Articles, Technical Reports:      75+