Dr. Yvonne R. Masakowski 

Dr. Yvonne R. Masakowski has a distinguished career in Psychology and Human Factors spanning nearly 30 years. She was recently appointed as the AI Ethics Senior Product Development Manager and Sr. Systems Engineer (SETA) in support of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) in Washington, D.C.  Following her retirement as a Professor at the Naval War College (NWC), she was appointed as a Research Fellow for a period of 3 years. During her tenure at NWC, she served as an Associate Professor of Strategic Leadership and Leader Development in the College of Leadership and Ethics. She taught classes in Leadership, Ethics, AI, Cultural Competence, and the Humanities. She mentored students on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in the NWC Ethics and Emerging Military Technology (EEMT) graduate certificate program. She continues to serve as a Doctoral dissertation adviser at Salve Regina University in the Humanities Doctoral Program. She was also the first Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) Associate Director, Human Factors in London, UK.  She also served as the CNO Science Adviser to the CNO Strategic Studies Group and the Lead, Human Factors in the Advanced Concepts Division at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC). 

Yvonne has extensive international and NATO S&T experience. She was the U.S. Chair of the NATO Human Factors and Medicine Research Task Group (HFM RTG) on Leader Development for NATO Multinational Military Operations (NATO HFM RTG 286) for 5 yrs. and as the US Co-Chair of NATO HFM RTG 356, Mitigating and Responding to Cognitive Warfare (NATO HFM RTG 356) for 2 yrs. She also served on several Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Technical Cooperative Panel (TTCP) panels including serving as the US Lead of the TTCP panel on Human Factors.

Dr. Masakowski received her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Rutgers’ University, a Master’s Degree in Psychology (Psycholinguistics) at the University of Connecticut, a second Master’s Degree in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Psychology from The City University of New York and a Diploma from MIT Seminar XXI on Foreign Policy and National Security.  She has also studied Ethics/Bioethics at Yale University’s Divinity School.  

Dr. Masakowski has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Czech Republic’s highest defense honor, The Cross of Merit, two medals for scientific achievement from the Ministère de la Défense Sciences of France, a medal from Poland for scientific achievement, NATO’s Science and Technology Excellence Award, the U.S. Navy’s /DoD Superior Civilian Meritorious Service Award, and the U.S. Navy Achievement Award, et al. She was recently awarded the NATO Excellence Award for her leadership on the NATO HFM RTG Leader Development panel focused on NATO MNO Operations. She has numerous publications, including her newest book, published by Emerald Publishing, London, UK, titled, Artificial Intelligence and Global Security: Future Threats, Trends and Considerations.