Benjamin McCloskey is a PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a data scientist, Ben holds an M.S. in Operations Research and a B.S. in Economics and Chinese. He is a member of the Aerospace Physiology Lab in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where his research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty in medical evacuation (MEDEVAC). His work sits at the intersection of healthcare AI, physiological monitoring, autonomy, deep learning, and human-machine teaming, with a focus on developing decision-support systems for safer and more effective MEDEVAC operations. He is particularly interested in explainable AI methods that help human operators, including pilots and clinicians, understand, trust, and appropriately rely on autonomous decision-support systems. More broadly, his research explores AI-enabled decision support, physiology-aware autonomy, and trustworthy systems for safety-critical healthcare and aerospace environments.