
Kenji Kato
Research Engineer
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Affiliation– NASA Ames Research Center
Division– Human Systems Integration Division (TH)
Phone– 650-604-2507
Email– kenji.h.kato@nasa.gov
Mail Stop– 262-4
Awards
(2022) NASA Group Achievement Award, Urban Air Mobility Ride Quality Study
(2020) NASA Group Achievement Award, UTM – Technical Capability Level-4 Demonstration
(2020) Ames Group Achievement Award, Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory
(2019) NASA Group Achievement Award, TLX Team
(2019) Ames Honor Award, Contractor Employee
(2018) Privately Sponsored, FLC Far West Software Award- Outstanding Technology Development for the NASA TLX for iOS
(2018) NASA Honor Award, Fatigue App Development Team
(2017) NASA Group Achievement Award, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) Team
(2017) Ames Honor Award, UTM Technical Capability Level 2 Demonstration
(2017) Ames Technology Award, Patent Award- Reconfigurable Image Generator
(2015) Ames Technology Award, Tech Brief Award for NASA-Ames Developed Image Generator and Display System for Simulators
(2015) Ames Technology Award, Patent Application Award for Reconfigurable Image Generator
(2013) NASA Group Achievement Award, OBVA Simulator Development Team
Publications
L. Arsintescu, C. J. Hilditch, K. B. Gregory, K. H. Kato, & E. E. Flynn-Evans (2023) Sleep during layovers of different lengths after long-haul flying across multiple time zones in different geographic directions, Proceedings of SLEEP 2022, Charlotte, NV, June 4-8, 2022
L. Arsintescu, K. H. Kato, C. J. Hilditch, K. B. Gregory, & E. E. Flynn-Evans (2019) Collecting Sleep, Circadian, Fatigue, and Performance Data in Complex Operational Environments, Journal of Visual Experiments, 150, e59851, DOI:10.3791/59851
L. Arsintescu, K. H. Kato, & E. E. Flynn-Evans (2017) Psychomotor Vigilance Task Evaluation for Touchscreen Devices, Oral presentation at 10th International Conference of managing fatigue, San Diego, CA, March 22
L. Arsintescu, K. H. Kato, P. Cravalho, N. H. Feick, L. S. Stone, & E. E. Flynn-Evans (2017) Validation of a touchscreen psychomotor vigilance task. Accident Analysis & Prevention, Accid Anal Prev. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.11.041
B. T. Sweet, & K. H. Kato (2012) 120 hertz – the new 60 for flight simulation, Proceedings of the Image 2012 Conference, Scottsdale, June