Lab member / Graduate Researcher
LeGrand is a first-year Human Factors/Human-Computer Interaction Doctoral Student at Rice University. He received his B.A. in Psychology with departmental honors. He is interested in researching the intricacies of human-automation interaction, specifically how automated systems can be improved to facilitate roadway coordination and the development of users’ trust.
As a Rice undergraduate from Sid Richardson, he majored in Psychology and minored in Data Science while engaged in research. he earned the Distinction in Research and Creative Works for his honors thesis about how the introduction of automated driving could change people’s driving behavior. He received the William C. Howell Award for his research accomplishments at Rice University and at Old Dominion University’s National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates on Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Behavioral Sciences and Transportation Issues, a competitive paid summer research opportunity. Additionally, he is a recipient of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awarded by the National Science Foundation, which will fund his graduate education at Rice for three years. Now a graduate student, he was awarded the Dean’s Prize by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies to recognize his academic promise as a first-year graduate student and facilitate his transition to graduate school.
Outside of his academic interests, he enjoys exercising at the rec, image and video editing, biking, reading light novels and Webtoons, and exploring all that Houston has to offer.
