Welcome! My name is Matt Hays. I'm a Research Associate at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California.

I earned my B.S. in Cognitive Psychology from Duke. I earned my Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from UCLA, where my minor was Human-Computer Interaction. The chair of my dissertation committee was Robert Bjork.

My areas of specialty are training system design, evaluation and assessment, and academic and technical writing. I serve as the external evaluator on multiple NSF projects.