Donald Kalar

Donald Kalar has an extensive background in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, highlighted by a Ph.D. from UCLA. Experience includes serving as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at UCLA, where discussion sections and labs for undergraduate psychology courses were developed and led. At NASA Ames Research Center, Donald worked as a Senior Research Psychologist, focusing on cognitive and human factors issues tied to human-systems integration and spearheading various research initiatives. Additionally, Donald held a position as Adjunct Faculty at San Jose State University, instructing courses in statistics, sensation and perception, human factors, and behavioral neuroscience. Early career experience includes software development at Acrasoft, where Microsoft Windows applications were documented and developed. Most recently, Donald worked as a Staff Quantitative User Experience Researcher at Google, contributing to projects on the Google Cloud Platform and G Suite.