Dr. Ron Boring is a Distinguished Scientist and Manager for the Human Factors and Reliability Department at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He has led control room modernization and human risk efforts for a variety of national and international partners, including U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NASA, and numerous industry partners.

He was the founder of the Human Systems Simulation Laboratory at INL and led development of prototyping tools such as the Advanced Nuclear Interface Modeling Environment (ANIME) and human factors evaluation methods like the Guideline for Operational Nuclear Usability and Knowledge Elicitation (GONUKE) to support control room development at U.S. utilities. He has developed the Human Unimodel for Nuclear Technology to Enhance Reliability (HUNTER) method, which is used for risk modeling for advanced reactors.

Dr. Boring has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Carleton University.  He was a Fulbright Academic Scholar to the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and holds the honorary title of Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). In 2021, he was the recipient of the Don Miller Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Nuclear Society (ANS). In 2022, he was recipient of the Arnold M. Small and Betty M. Sanders President’s Distinguished Service Award from HFES. He has published over 300 research articles in a wide variety of human reliability, human factors, and human-computer interaction forums. He has served as the Chair of the Idaho Section of ANS, General Conference Chair for HFES, and Conference Co-Chair for the ANS NPIC&HMIT Conference, and Standards Champion for IEEE Nuclear Power Engineering Committee. He presently serves as Chair for the Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Control Division of ANS and a board member of the International Association for Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. In his spare time, he has served on the dissertation committees for 15 doctoral students.