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Dr. Niav Hughes Green is a Human Factors Psychologist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. She joined the NRC in 2006 and serves as a technical lead for experimental research activities related to human and organizational factors supporting guidance development to facilitate NRC licensing reviews of nuclear power plants. Most recently, she is conducting research exploring the human factors considerations for the remote and autonomous operation of nuclear facilities. Dr. Hughes Green holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Maryland and earned her Masters in Psychology and Ph.D. in Applied and Experimental Psychology from the Catholic University of America. Her graduate research focused on using a variety of human performance measurement techniques, including eye tracking, to assess the effects of cognitive mechanisms on the performance of visual search and navigation activities as well as basic operator tasks performed in the nuclear domain.