Guy André Boy (born May 25, 1952) is a French and American scientist and engineer, Fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), the Air and Space Academy, and the International Academy of Astronautics. He was FlexTech Chair holder at CentraleSupélec (Paris-Saclay University) and ESTIA Institute of Technology (2019-2024), where he still teaches. He is also a visiting scholar at ISAE-SUPAERO and IRIT. He was a university professor and dean (2015–2017) at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT), where he created the Human-Centered Design Institute (HCDi) in 2010. He was senior research scientist at Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). He was Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Design at NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) from 2010 to 2016. He is known for his work on intelligent assistance, cognitive function analysis, human-centered design (HCD), orchestration of life-critical systems, tangible interactive systems, and human systems integration.
Biography Guy André Boy is a computer scientist, an aerospace and control engineer, and a cognitive scientist. He obtained his Masters (1977) and PhD (1980) in automation and systems design at École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), and his HDR (habilitation as research director) in Computer Science and Cognitive Science in 1992 at Pierre and Marie Curie University (Sorbonne University). His HDR thesis was titled Methods and Tools for Cognitive Human-Machine Interaction. His HDR Committee included Joëlle Coutaz, Pierre Falzon, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Georges Duvaut, Brian R. Gaines, Yves Kodratoff, and Marc Pelegrin. He also obtained a master's degree in cognitive psychology at the University of Toulouse in 1983. His work mainly focuses on cognition, aerospace systems, and organizations since the late seventies, sharing his time between academia and industry. In the early eighties, he created and led the Cognitive Ergonomics Group at ONERA. In the late eighties, he created and headed the Advanced Interaction Media Group in the Artificial Intelligence Branch at NASA Ames Research Center, California. He was Founder and president of the European Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO) in France – a research institute of Airbus and Thales Group. He led EURISCO from its creation in 1992 until its closing in 2008. EURISCO was a multidisciplinary organization made up of cognitive and social scientists, computer scientists, engineers, and human factors specialists. It served students from various universities and engineering schools that were part of EURISCO's network of excellence. EURISCO focused strongly on its associations with the European aeronautical industry, research, and education. In 2004, Guy André Boy co-founded with Bernard Claverie the French Cognitive Engineering School and Center of Excellence ENSC: École Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique in Bordeaux, France. He taught cognitive engineering, human-centered design and Human Systems Integration in several universities including Florida Institute of Technology, École Polytechnique (Paris), ISAE-SUPAERO, INSA and ENAC (Toulouse), Paris Descartes University, Civil Aviation University of China (Tianjin), University of Valenciennes, ENSC, CentraleSupélec (Paris Saclay University) and ESTIA Institute of Technology. In 2008, he joined IHMC as a senior research scientist. In 2009, he became university professor at FIT where he created and directed HCDi, which supports the FIT HCD Ph.D. and Master's programs. In 2010, he was appointed Chief Scientist for HCD at NASA KSC (under an Intergovernmental Personal Act). He advised for several NASA projects including the Virtual Camera concept and tool for planetary exploration, which he created and developed, space robotics, and the Glass Wall project for the renewal of launch control rooms. In 2013, he was nominated member of the Scientific Committee of European Commission's SESAR (Single European Sky Air Traffic Management) Joint Undertaking (SJU) Program, to provide advice to the SJU Executive Director, drafting of scientific opinions and provision of scientific advice. Boy was inducted as a Fellow of the Air and Space Academy (Europe) in 2006, and a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2009.
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