Evelyn Goroza
Researcher, engineer, scientist, artist, and designer
Contents
Evelyn Goroza
Researcher, engineer, scientist, artist, and designer
A photo of Evelyn circa 2025.
Location
Somerville, MA
Education
M.S. in Human Factors Engineering, Tufts University (2025, GPA: 3.97); B.S. in Biology, Northeastern University (2021, GPA: 3.8)
Occupation
UX Researcher, Human Factors Engineer, Analog Photographer
Known for
Trust calibration research, Calibratio behavioral simulation
Notable work
Calibratio (2025); ORBIT educational robotics (2024)
Awards
Trefethen Fellowship (2025); Wittich Grant (2024)
Affiliations
HFES, USCF
Hobbies
Bouldering & Top-Roping, Chess Tournaments, Camping & Hiking
evelyngoroza@gmail.com
Analog Photography Portfolio
https://evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com/
Introduction
Evelyn Salome Goroza, also known by her childhood nickname, Ebit, is a human factors engineer, UX researcher, and analog photographer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. She holds an M.S. in Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University (2025) and a B.S. in Biology from Northeastern University (2021).
Goroza's career has spanned pharmaceutical market research at Sanofi, frontline patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic, FDA-pivotal clinical trials at the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School), and academic research in trust in automation and inclusive educational robotics. Her master's thesis introduced novel methods for measuring calibrated use of automation systems and was presented at the 2025 ACM CHI conference.
Outside of research, Goroza founded Salome Magazine (2023), an independent print publication on film photography featuring 40+ international contributors, and maintains an active 35mm film photography practice exhibited in Boston and featured in LensCulture and Pamplemousse Magazine.
Education and Career
Undergraduate studies
Goroza enrolled at Northeastern University in 2017 as a Biology major (B.S., 2021, GPA: 3.8). Through the university's cooperative education program, she completed two six-month co-op placements that exposed her to both industry and clinical environments.
Her first co-op (January–August 2019) was at Sanofi in Cambridge, MA, where she worked as a Market Research Co-op in the Global Oncology division under Jack Tsai, MD, MBA. She conducted competitive landscape analysis for Zaltrap (ziv-aflibercept) in metastatic colorectal cancer, benchmarking against competitor therapies including Avastin (bevacizumab), and synthesized physician prescribing patterns, treatment guidelines, and market trends into reports for senior marketing leadership.
During this period she also obtained her EMT certification (2019) and BLS certification through the American Heart Association, qualifications that would prove essential when her second co-op placed her in an intensive-care unit at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 frontline work
For her second co-op, Goroza worked as a Patient Care Technician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from January 2020 to January 2021, providing BLS-certified critical care support in a 15-bed cardiovascular intensive-care unit (CVICU) and cardiac surgical units. When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Massachusetts in early 2020, her units were converted to COVID-19 units, placing the then-20-year-old biology student on the front lines of the global health crisis.
During the surge, when Massachusetts had surpassed 50,000 COVID-19 cases and the hospital expanded ICU capacity by 93%, nearly all beds in Goroza's units were occupied by critically ill patients. She assisted nurses by checking vital signs, performing electrocardiograms, and helping patients eat and move.
Read News@Northeastern Article
Clinical research
After graduating from Northeastern, Goroza joined the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School) as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Laffel Lab from May 2021 to February 2023. Working under Lori M. Laffel, M.D., M.P.H. (PI), she coordinated multiple FDA-pivotal trials for diabetes management technologies including continuous glucose monitors and automated insulin delivery systems, including the Omnipod 5, Dexcom G7, and acted as an interventionist in a Psychosocial Outcomes study.
This role bridged her clinical healthcare background with systematic research methods including expertise on managing IRB protocols, maintaining FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, and coordinating patient recruitment and data collection across multi-center studies. These skills would directly inform her graduate work in human factors engineering.
Graduate studies
In September 2023, Goroza entered the M.S. program in Human Factors Engineering at Tufts University's School of Engineering (GPA: 3.97), where she was advised by Dave B. Miller, Ph.D., with committee members Daniel J. Hannon, Ph.D. and Holly Taylor, Ph.D. Her graduate work was supported by a Wittich Grant (2024) and a Trefethen Fellowship (2025).
Her research addressed a critical gap in human factors literature: the field's historical emphasis on system-level factors (e.g., reliability, transparency) over operator dispositional characteristics. This led to her thesis work on how cultural values and personality traits shape trust and reliance in automation, as well as her concurrent role as UX Researcher and Design Lead for the NSF-funded ORBIT project at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.
Her methodological expertise developed during this period spans structural equation modeling, behavioral simulation design, survey design and validation, usability testing, heuristic evaluation, and participatory design. She is proficient in R (lavaan, tidyverse, ggplot2), Python, SPSS, Qualtrics, Unity (C#), Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite, and holds CITI Human Subjects Research Certification for behavioral research with human participants.
Joslin Diabetes Center
As a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School) from 2021 to 2023, Goroza supported multiple FDA-pivotal clinical trials investigating diabetes management technologies. Her work contributed to regulatory clearances for the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor (FDA 510(k) clearance, December 2022) and the Omnipod 5 tubeless automated insulin delivery system (FDA clearance, January 2022).
Key trials included the Dexcom G7 Pregnancy Study (NCT04905628) evaluating CGM accuracy in 105 pregnant women with diabetes, the Omnipod 5 Pivotal Trial (NCT04196140) with 240 participants ages 6–70, and the Omnipod 5 Preschoolers Study (NCT04476472) evaluating system safety in young children ages 2–5.9.
Case studies
The following case studies highlight Goroza's contributions to human factors research, UX research, and applied research in clinical and educational settings.
Master's Thesis
For her master's thesis at Tufts University, Goroza designed and executed a large-scale behavioral study (N = 189) investigating how cultural values and personality traits influence trust and reliance on adaptable automation. She developed Calibratio, a Unity-based behavioral simulation with a delegation interface to measure real-time trust-reliance calibration in human-automation interaction.
The study introduced a novel "Use-in-Range" metric adapted from continuous glucose monitoring technology to quantify calibrated use, misuse, and disuse of automation systems. Using structural equation modeling in R, Goroza constructed and validated a three-layer model linking Hofstede's cultural dimensions and dispositional trust traits to baseline trust, in-task trust, and behavioral reliance.
ORBIT Project
As UX Researcher and Design Lead at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Goroza contributed to ORBIT (Opportunities for Robotics, Building, and Inclusive Technology), a two-year NSF-funded research project (Award #2318191) developing visual robot-programming tools for autistic middle school students.
She co-designed with Somerville Public Schools special education teachers at Winter Hill Community Innovation School to integrate computational thinking practices with executive functioning skill development using LEGO SPIKE Prime robotics. Goroza developed student-facing scaffolds including planning boards to support sequencing and task decomposition, iterated on materials based on educator feedback, and led a summer classroom pilot that resulted in a publication at the 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.
Creative Work & Analog Photography
Analog Photography Practice
From 2022 to 2023, Goroza worked as a freelance analog photographer in Boston and San Francisco, producing editorial 35mm portraiture for gallery exhibitions, nonprofit fundraisers, and independent clients. Her work has been featured in LensCulture and Pamplemousse Magazine (San Francisco), and exhibited at Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville, MA.
Working exclusively in 35mm film (sometimes also medium format, a.k.a. 120) on the Canon AE-1 SLR, Goroza's practice centers on "seeking moments in the ordinary" and exploring "the possibilities of unpretentious, anachronistic beauty" through analog technology. Her artistic philosophy emphasizes memory preservation through film as a medium.
This commitment to analog processes reflects a broader interest in how technological constraints can enhance rather than limit creative expression.
Her portfolio is organized into six thematic series, each exploring distinct visual and conceptual territories through carefully selected film stocks (as organized on evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com):
Chromatic (Episodes 1–4)
- Episode 1, Monochrome — Kodak Ektachrome 100
- Episode 2, Saturate — Cinestill 50 Daylight, 400 Dynamic, 800 Tungsten
- Episode 3 Part 1, CMYK — Kodak Ultramax 400, Velvia 50
- Episode 3 Part 2, Kaleidoscope — Kodak Ultramax 400
- Episode 4, Prism — Kodak Color Plus 200
Realm (Volumes 1–5)
- Volume 1, Amphibian — Kodak Portra 800
- Volume 2, Quixote — Kodak Ektachrome 100, Gold 200
- Volume 3, Inertia — Fujifilm Superia 200
- Volume 4, Deja Vu — Fujifilm Superia 200
- Volume 5, Fairytale — Fujifilm Superia 200
Return to Sender (Volumes 1–4)
- Volume 1, Icarus — Cinestill 800 Tungsten
- Volume 2, Phoenix — Lomography Color 100, 800
- Volume 3, Lucid — Cinestill 800 Tungsten, Lomography Color 800
- Volume 4, Sisyphus — Kodak Ektachrome 100
Occam's Razor (Volumes 1–4) — Ilford Delta XP2, Delta 100, Lomography Lady Grey 400
Sports (Volumes 1–3)
- Volume 1, Bishop — Fuji Color Superia 200
- Volume 2, Wheels — FujiColor 100
- Volume 3, Jock — Cinestill 800 Tungsten
Elemental (Volumes 1–4)
- Volume 1, That Sinking Feeling — Cinestill 50 Daylight, 400 Dynamic
- Volume 2, Inferno — Cinestill 400 Dynamic
- Volume 3, Directionless — Cinestill XX, Kodak Ektachrome 100, RetroChrome 400
- Volume 4, Back to the Roots — Kodak Ektachrome 100
Evelyn's 35mm photography portfolio is available at evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com
Despite quitting social media, Evelyn's 35mm photography content is also available on her (unmonitored) instagram page: instagram.com/evelyngoroza
Her technical approach demonstrates fluency across a wide range of emulsions—from Kodak Ektachrome and Portra to Cinestill's tungsten-balanced cinema stocks, Lomography's experimental emulsions, and classic Ilford black-and-white films—selecting each based on the emotional and aesthetic requirements of the series. The six series collectively encompass 25 individual volumes spanning portraiture, landscape, street photography, sports, and documentary work.
She created an exclusive product line for post.script., an AAPI-woman-owned boutique in San Francisco's Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood, where she also served as Social Media Manager in 2023. During this time, she provided consulting services for film labs and managed social media strategy, analyzing engagement metrics to grow the boutique's online community across Instagram (8K+ followers) and TikTok.
Salome Magazine
In 2023, Goroza founded and published Salome Magazine (ISBN: 9798210709875), a bi-annual editorial focused on film photography and the use of modern analog technology. The inaugural issue, "Fall/Winter 2023: Why Film?", spans 118 pages featuring over forty international photographers, writers, and artists, each unveiling their stories and work in an increasingly digital world. As Founder and Editor-in-Chief, she managed end-to-end production including contributor outreach, editorial direction, and print coordination.
The magazine's release was celebrated with a month-long gallery exhibition at Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville, MA (December 2023 – January 2024), where Goroza sold copies of the publication alongside framed prints of her photography. The project represented a culmination of creative work that began during her days in clinical research, providing an outlet that balanced autonomous creativity with structured discipline.
Research Publications
Goroza's research has been published in peer-reviewed venues and academic conferences. Selected publications include:
First-author publications
[1] Goroza, E. (2025). Quantifying calibration: Bridging trust and reliance in automation across cultural values and dispositional factors [Master's thesis, Tufts University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (Order No. 32238898).
[2] Goroza, E., McCarthy-Bui, G., Zhao, A., Ostenson, E. R., & Miller, D. B. (2025). Quantifying calibration: Bridging trust and reliance in automation across dispositional factors. In CHI '25 Workshop on Hybrid Automation Experiences (AutomationXP25), Yokohama, Japan. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4101.
Conference and journal papers
[3] Hayes, R., Milto, E., Goroza, E., & Cross, J. (2025). WIP: Development and pilot results of ORBIT: A visual robot-programming tool supporting computational thinking and executive functioning skills in special education. In 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Nashville, TN, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/FIE63693.2025.11328697
[4] Riveline, J-P., Renard, E., Aleppo, G., Bode, B. W., Brown, S. A., Castorino, K., Hirsch, I. B., Kipnes, M. S., Laffel, L. M., Lal, R. A., Penfornis, A., Shah, V. N., Thivolet, C., Weinstock, R. S., & OP5-003 Research Group (including Goroza, E.). (2026). Psychosocial outcomes among adults with type 1 diabetes using a tubeless automated insulin delivery system compared with sensor augmented pump therapy: A randomised, parallel-group clinical trial sub-study. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. doi: 10.1111/dom.70416
[5] Polsky, S., Valent, A. M., Isganaitis, E., Castorino, K., O'Malley, G., Beck, S. E., Gao, P., Laffel, L. M., Brown, F. M., & Levy, C. J. (2024). Performance of the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitoring system in pregnant women with diabetes. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 26(5), 307–312. doi: 10.1089/dia.2023.0516 [Goroza, E. acknowledged for contributions to Joslin Clinical Research Center study team]
Evelyn Goroza
Researcher, engineer, scientist, artist, and designer
Contents
Evelyn Goroza
Researcher, engineer, scientist, artist, and designer
A photo of Evelyn circa 2025.
Location
Somerville, MA
Education
M.S. in Human Factors Engineering, Tufts University (2025, GPA: 3.97); B.S. in Biology, Northeastern University (2021, GPA: 3.8)
Occupation
UX Researcher, Human Factors Engineer, Analog Photographer
Known for
Trust calibration research, Calibratio behavioral simulation
Notable work
Calibratio (2025); ORBIT educational robotics (2024)
Awards
Trefethen Fellowship (2025); Wittich Grant (2024)
Affiliations
HFES, USCF
Hobbies
Bouldering & Top-Roping, Chess Tournaments, Camping & Hiking
evelyngoroza@gmail.com
Analog Photography Portfolio
https://evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com/
Introduction
Evelyn Salome Goroza, also known by her childhood nickname, Ebit, is a human factors engineer, UX researcher, and analog photographer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. She holds an M.S. in Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University (2025) and a B.S. in Biology from Northeastern University (2021).
Goroza's career has spanned pharmaceutical market research at Sanofi, frontline patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic, FDA-pivotal clinical trials at the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School), and academic research in trust in automation and inclusive educational robotics. Her master's thesis introduced novel methods for measuring calibrated use of automation systems and was presented at the 2025 ACM CHI conference.
Outside of research, Goroza founded Salome Magazine (2023), an independent print publication on film photography featuring 40+ international contributors, and maintains an active 35mm film photography practice exhibited in Boston and featured in LensCulture and Pamplemousse Magazine.
Education and Career
Undergraduate studies
Goroza enrolled at Northeastern University in 2017 as a Biology major (B.S., 2021, GPA: 3.8). Through the university's cooperative education program, she completed two six-month co-op placements that exposed her to both industry and clinical environments.
Her first co-op (January–August 2019) was at Sanofi in Cambridge, MA, where she worked as a Market Research Co-op in the Global Oncology division under Jack Tsai, MD, MBA. She conducted competitive landscape analysis for Zaltrap (ziv-aflibercept) in metastatic colorectal cancer, benchmarking against competitor therapies including Avastin (bevacizumab), and synthesized physician prescribing patterns, treatment guidelines, and market trends into reports for senior marketing leadership.
During this period she also obtained her EMT certification (2019) and BLS certification through the American Heart Association, qualifications that would prove essential when her second co-op placed her in an intensive-care unit at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 frontline work
For her second co-op, Goroza worked as a Patient Care Technician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from January 2020 to January 2021, providing BLS-certified critical care support in a 15-bed cardiovascular intensive-care unit (CVICU) and cardiac surgical units. When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Massachusetts in early 2020, her units were converted to COVID-19 units, placing the then-20-year-old biology student on the front lines of the global health crisis.
During the surge, when Massachusetts had surpassed 50,000 COVID-19 cases and the hospital expanded ICU capacity by 93%, nearly all beds in Goroza's units were occupied by critically ill patients. She assisted nurses by checking vital signs, performing electrocardiograms, and helping patients eat and move.
Read News@Northeastern Article
Clinical research
After graduating from Northeastern, Goroza joined the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School) as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Laffel Lab from May 2021 to February 2023. Working under Lori M. Laffel, M.D., M.P.H. (PI), she coordinated multiple FDA-pivotal trials for diabetes management technologies including continuous glucose monitors and automated insulin delivery systems, including the Omnipod 5, Dexcom G7, and acted as an interventionist in a Psychosocial Outcomes study.
This role bridged her clinical healthcare background with systematic research methods including expertise on managing IRB protocols, maintaining FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, and coordinating patient recruitment and data collection across multi-center studies. These skills would directly inform her graduate work in human factors engineering.
Graduate studies
In September 2023, Goroza entered the M.S. program in Human Factors Engineering at Tufts University's School of Engineering (GPA: 3.97), where she was advised by Dave B. Miller, Ph.D., with committee members Daniel J. Hannon, Ph.D. and Holly Taylor, Ph.D. Her graduate work was supported by a Wittich Grant (2024) and a Trefethen Fellowship (2025).
Her research addressed a critical gap in human factors literature: the field's historical emphasis on system-level factors (e.g., reliability, transparency) over operator dispositional characteristics. This led to her thesis work on how cultural values and personality traits shape trust and reliance in automation, as well as her concurrent role as UX Researcher and Design Lead for the NSF-funded ORBIT project at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.
Her methodological expertise developed during this period spans structural equation modeling, behavioral simulation design, survey design and validation, usability testing, heuristic evaluation, and participatory design. She is proficient in R (lavaan, tidyverse, ggplot2), Python, SPSS, Qualtrics, Unity (C#), Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite, and holds CITI Human Subjects Research Certification for behavioral research with human participants.
Joslin Diabetes Center
As a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School) from 2021 to 2023, Goroza supported multiple FDA-pivotal clinical trials investigating diabetes management technologies. Her work contributed to regulatory clearances for the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor (FDA 510(k) clearance, December 2022) and the Omnipod 5 tubeless automated insulin delivery system (FDA clearance, January 2022).
Key trials included the Dexcom G7 Pregnancy Study (NCT04905628) evaluating CGM accuracy in 105 pregnant women with diabetes, the Omnipod 5 Pivotal Trial (NCT04196140) with 240 participants ages 6–70, and the Omnipod 5 Preschoolers Study (NCT04476472) evaluating system safety in young children ages 2–5.9.
Case studies
The following case studies highlight Goroza's contributions to human factors research, UX research, and applied research in clinical and educational settings.
Master's Thesis
For her master's thesis at Tufts University, Goroza designed and executed a large-scale behavioral study (N = 189) investigating how cultural values and personality traits influence trust and reliance on adaptable automation. She developed Calibratio, a Unity-based behavioral simulation with a delegation interface to measure real-time trust-reliance calibration in human-automation interaction.
The study introduced a novel "Use-in-Range" metric adapted from continuous glucose monitoring technology to quantify calibrated use, misuse, and disuse of automation systems. Using structural equation modeling in R, Goroza constructed and validated a three-layer model linking Hofstede's cultural dimensions and dispositional trust traits to baseline trust, in-task trust, and behavioral reliance.
ORBIT Project
As UX Researcher and Design Lead at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Goroza contributed to ORBIT (Opportunities for Robotics, Building, and Inclusive Technology), a two-year NSF-funded research project (Award #2318191) developing visual robot-programming tools for autistic middle school students.
She co-designed with Somerville Public Schools special education teachers at Winter Hill Community Innovation School to integrate computational thinking practices with executive functioning skill development using LEGO SPIKE Prime robotics. Goroza developed student-facing scaffolds including planning boards to support sequencing and task decomposition, iterated on materials based on educator feedback, and led a summer classroom pilot that resulted in a publication at the 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.
Creative Work & Analog Photography
Analog Photography Practice
From 2022 to 2023, Goroza worked as a freelance analog photographer in Boston and San Francisco, producing editorial 35mm portraiture for gallery exhibitions, nonprofit fundraisers, and independent clients. Her work has been featured in LensCulture and Pamplemousse Magazine (San Francisco), and exhibited at Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville, MA.
Working exclusively in 35mm film (sometimes also medium format, a.k.a. 120) on the Canon AE-1 SLR, Goroza's practice centers on "seeking moments in the ordinary" and exploring "the possibilities of unpretentious, anachronistic beauty" through analog technology. Her artistic philosophy emphasizes memory preservation through film as a medium.
This commitment to analog processes reflects a broader interest in how technological constraints can enhance rather than limit creative expression.
Her portfolio is organized into six thematic series, each exploring distinct visual and conceptual territories through carefully selected film stocks (as organized on evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com):
Chromatic (Episodes 1–4)
- Episode 1, Monochrome — Kodak Ektachrome 100
- Episode 2, Saturate — Cinestill 50 Daylight, 400 Dynamic, 800 Tungsten
- Episode 3 Part 1, CMYK — Kodak Ultramax 400, Velvia 50
- Episode 3 Part 2, Kaleidoscope — Kodak Ultramax 400
- Episode 4, Prism — Kodak Color Plus 200
Realm (Volumes 1–5)
- Volume 1, Amphibian — Kodak Portra 800
- Volume 2, Quixote — Kodak Ektachrome 100, Gold 200
- Volume 3, Inertia — Fujifilm Superia 200
- Volume 4, Deja Vu — Fujifilm Superia 200
- Volume 5, Fairytale — Fujifilm Superia 200
Return to Sender (Volumes 1–4)
- Volume 1, Icarus — Cinestill 800 Tungsten
- Volume 2, Phoenix — Lomography Color 100, 800
- Volume 3, Lucid — Cinestill 800 Tungsten, Lomography Color 800
- Volume 4, Sisyphus — Kodak Ektachrome 100
Occam's Razor (Volumes 1–4) — Ilford Delta XP2, Delta 100, Lomography Lady Grey 400
Sports (Volumes 1–3)
- Volume 1, Bishop — Fuji Color Superia 200
- Volume 2, Wheels — FujiColor 100
- Volume 3, Jock — Cinestill 800 Tungsten
Elemental (Volumes 1–4)
- Volume 1, That Sinking Feeling — Cinestill 50 Daylight, 400 Dynamic
- Volume 2, Inferno — Cinestill 400 Dynamic
- Volume 3, Directionless — Cinestill XX, Kodak Ektachrome 100, RetroChrome 400
- Volume 4, Back to the Roots — Kodak Ektachrome 100
Evelyn's 35mm photography portfolio is available at evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com
Despite quitting social media, Evelyn's 35mm photography content is also available on her (unmonitored) instagram page: instagram.com/evelyngoroza
Her technical approach demonstrates fluency across a wide range of emulsions—from Kodak Ektachrome and Portra to Cinestill's tungsten-balanced cinema stocks, Lomography's experimental emulsions, and classic Ilford black-and-white films—selecting each based on the emotional and aesthetic requirements of the series. The six series collectively encompass 25 individual volumes spanning portraiture, landscape, street photography, sports, and documentary work.
She created an exclusive product line for post.script., an AAPI-woman-owned boutique in San Francisco's Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood, where she also served as Social Media Manager in 2023. During this time, she provided consulting services for film labs and managed social media strategy, analyzing engagement metrics to grow the boutique's online community across Instagram (8K+ followers) and TikTok.
Salome Magazine
In 2023, Goroza founded and published Salome Magazine (ISBN: 9798210709875), a bi-annual editorial focused on film photography and the use of modern analog technology. The inaugural issue, "Fall/Winter 2023: Why Film?", spans 118 pages featuring over forty international photographers, writers, and artists, each unveiling their stories and work in an increasingly digital world. As Founder and Editor-in-Chief, she managed end-to-end production including contributor outreach, editorial direction, and print coordination.
The magazine's release was celebrated with a month-long gallery exhibition at Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville, MA (December 2023 – January 2024), where Goroza sold copies of the publication alongside framed prints of her photography. The project represented a culmination of creative work that began during her days in clinical research, providing an outlet that balanced autonomous creativity with structured discipline.
Research Publications
Goroza's research has been published in peer-reviewed venues and academic conferences. Selected publications include:
First-author publications
[1] Goroza, E. (2025). Quantifying calibration: Bridging trust and reliance in automation across cultural values and dispositional factors [Master's thesis, Tufts University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (Order No. 32238898).
[2] Goroza, E., McCarthy-Bui, G., Zhao, A., Ostenson, E. R., & Miller, D. B. (2025). Quantifying calibration: Bridging trust and reliance in automation across dispositional factors. In CHI '25 Workshop on Hybrid Automation Experiences (AutomationXP25), Yokohama, Japan. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4101.
Conference and journal papers
[3] Hayes, R., Milto, E., Goroza, E., & Cross, J. (2025). WIP: Development and pilot results of ORBIT: A visual robot-programming tool supporting computational thinking and executive functioning skills in special education. In 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Nashville, TN, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/FIE63693.2025.11328697
[4] Riveline, J-P., Renard, E., Aleppo, G., Bode, B. W., Brown, S. A., Castorino, K., Hirsch, I. B., Kipnes, M. S., Laffel, L. M., Lal, R. A., Penfornis, A., Shah, V. N., Thivolet, C., Weinstock, R. S., & OP5-003 Research Group (including Goroza, E.). (2026). Psychosocial outcomes among adults with type 1 diabetes using a tubeless automated insulin delivery system compared with sensor augmented pump therapy: A randomised, parallel-group clinical trial sub-study. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. doi: 10.1111/dom.70416
[5] Polsky, S., Valent, A. M., Isganaitis, E., Castorino, K., O'Malley, G., Beck, S. E., Gao, P., Laffel, L. M., Brown, F. M., & Levy, C. J. (2024). Performance of the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitoring system in pregnant women with diabetes. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 26(5), 307–312. doi: 10.1089/dia.2023.0516 [Goroza, E. acknowledged for contributions to Joslin Clinical Research Center study team]
Evelyn Goroza
Researcher, engineer, scientist, artist, and designer
Contents
Evelyn Goroza
Researcher, engineer, scientist, artist, and designer
A photo of Evelyn circa 2025.
Location
Somerville, MA
Education
M.S. in Human Factors Engineering, Tufts University (2025, GPA: 3.97); B.S. in Biology, Northeastern University (2021, GPA: 3.8)
Occupation
UX Researcher, Human Factors Engineer, Analog Photographer
Known for
Trust calibration research, Calibratio behavioral simulation
Notable work
Calibratio (2025); ORBIT educational robotics (2024)
Awards
Trefethen Fellowship (2025); Wittich Grant (2024)
Affiliations
HFES, USCF
Hobbies
Bouldering & Top-Roping, Chess Tournaments, Camping & Hiking
evelyngoroza@gmail.com
Analog Photography Portfolio
https://evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com/
Introduction
Evelyn Salome Goroza, also known by her childhood nickname, Ebit, is a human factors engineer, UX researcher, and analog photographer based in Somerville, Massachusetts. She holds an M.S. in Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University (2025) and a B.S. in Biology from Northeastern University (2021).
Goroza's career has spanned pharmaceutical market research at Sanofi, frontline patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic, FDA-pivotal clinical trials at the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School), and academic research in trust in automation and inclusive educational robotics. Her master's thesis introduced novel methods for measuring calibrated use of automation systems and was presented at the 2025 ACM CHI conference.
Outside of research, Goroza founded Salome Magazine (2023), an independent print publication on film photography featuring 40+ international contributors, and maintains an active 35mm film photography practice exhibited in Boston and featured in LensCulture and Pamplemousse Magazine.
Education and Career
Undergraduate studies
Goroza enrolled at Northeastern University in 2017 as a Biology major (B.S., 2021, GPA: 3.8). Through the university's cooperative education program, she completed two six-month co-op placements that exposed her to both industry and clinical environments.
Her first co-op (January–August 2019) was at Sanofi in Cambridge, MA, where she worked as a Market Research Co-op in the Global Oncology division under Jack Tsai, MD, MBA. She conducted competitive landscape analysis for Zaltrap (ziv-aflibercept) in metastatic colorectal cancer, benchmarking against competitor therapies including Avastin (bevacizumab), and synthesized physician prescribing patterns, treatment guidelines, and market trends into reports for senior marketing leadership.
During this period she also obtained her EMT certification (2019) and BLS certification through the American Heart Association, qualifications that would prove essential when her second co-op placed her in an intensive-care unit at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 frontline work
For her second co-op, Goroza worked as a Patient Care Technician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center from January 2020 to January 2021, providing BLS-certified critical care support in a 15-bed cardiovascular intensive-care unit (CVICU) and cardiac surgical units. When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Massachusetts in early 2020, her units were converted to COVID-19 units, placing the then-20-year-old biology student on the front lines of the global health crisis.
During the surge, when Massachusetts had surpassed 50,000 COVID-19 cases and the hospital expanded ICU capacity by 93%, nearly all beds in Goroza's units were occupied by critically ill patients. She assisted nurses by checking vital signs, performing electrocardiograms, and helping patients eat and move.
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Clinical research
After graduating from Northeastern, Goroza joined the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School) as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Laffel Lab from May 2021 to February 2023. Working under Lori M. Laffel, M.D., M.P.H. (PI), she coordinated multiple FDA-pivotal trials for diabetes management technologies including continuous glucose monitors and automated insulin delivery systems, including the Omnipod 5, Dexcom G7, and acted as an interventionist in a Psychosocial Outcomes study.
This role bridged her clinical healthcare background with systematic research methods including expertise on managing IRB protocols, maintaining FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, and coordinating patient recruitment and data collection across multi-center studies. These skills would directly inform her graduate work in human factors engineering.
Graduate studies
In September 2023, Goroza entered the M.S. program in Human Factors Engineering at Tufts University's School of Engineering (GPA: 3.97), where she was advised by Dave B. Miller, Ph.D., with committee members Daniel J. Hannon, Ph.D. and Holly Taylor, Ph.D. Her graduate work was supported by a Wittich Grant (2024) and a Trefethen Fellowship (2025).
Her research addressed a critical gap in human factors literature: the field's historical emphasis on system-level factors (e.g., reliability, transparency) over operator dispositional characteristics. This led to her thesis work on how cultural values and personality traits shape trust and reliance in automation, as well as her concurrent role as UX Researcher and Design Lead for the NSF-funded ORBIT project at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach.
Her methodological expertise developed during this period spans structural equation modeling, behavioral simulation design, survey design and validation, usability testing, heuristic evaluation, and participatory design. She is proficient in R (lavaan, tidyverse, ggplot2), Python, SPSS, Qualtrics, Unity (C#), Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite, and holds CITI Human Subjects Research Certification for behavioral research with human participants.
Joslin Diabetes Center
As a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard Medical School) from 2021 to 2023, Goroza supported multiple FDA-pivotal clinical trials investigating diabetes management technologies. Her work contributed to regulatory clearances for the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor (FDA 510(k) clearance, December 2022) and the Omnipod 5 tubeless automated insulin delivery system (FDA clearance, January 2022).
Key trials included the Dexcom G7 Pregnancy Study (NCT04905628) evaluating CGM accuracy in 105 pregnant women with diabetes, the Omnipod 5 Pivotal Trial (NCT04196140) with 240 participants ages 6–70, and the Omnipod 5 Preschoolers Study (NCT04476472) evaluating system safety in young children ages 2–5.9.
Case studies
The following case studies highlight Goroza's contributions to human factors research, UX research, and applied research in clinical and educational settings.
Master's Thesis
For her master's thesis at Tufts University, Goroza designed and executed a large-scale behavioral study (N = 189) investigating how cultural values and personality traits influence trust and reliance on adaptable automation. She developed Calibratio, a Unity-based behavioral simulation with a delegation interface to measure real-time trust-reliance calibration in human-automation interaction.
The study introduced a novel "Use-in-Range" metric adapted from continuous glucose monitoring technology to quantify calibrated use, misuse, and disuse of automation systems. Using structural equation modeling in R, Goroza constructed and validated a three-layer model linking Hofstede's cultural dimensions and dispositional trust traits to baseline trust, in-task trust, and behavioral reliance.
ORBIT Project
As UX Researcher and Design Lead at the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), Goroza contributed to ORBIT (Opportunities for Robotics, Building, and Inclusive Technology), a two-year NSF-funded research project (Award #2318191) developing visual robot-programming tools for autistic middle school students.
She co-designed with Somerville Public Schools special education teachers at Winter Hill Community Innovation School to integrate computational thinking practices with executive functioning skill development using LEGO SPIKE Prime robotics. Goroza developed student-facing scaffolds including planning boards to support sequencing and task decomposition, iterated on materials based on educator feedback, and led a summer classroom pilot that resulted in a publication at the 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.
Creative Work & Analog Photography
Analog Photography Practice
From 2022 to 2023, Goroza worked as a freelance analog photographer in Boston and San Francisco, producing editorial 35mm portraiture for gallery exhibitions, nonprofit fundraisers, and independent clients. Her work has been featured in LensCulture and Pamplemousse Magazine (San Francisco), and exhibited at Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville, MA.
Working exclusively in 35mm film (sometimes also medium format, a.k.a. 120) on the Canon AE-1 SLR, Goroza's practice centers on "seeking moments in the ordinary" and exploring "the possibilities of unpretentious, anachronistic beauty" through analog technology. Her artistic philosophy emphasizes memory preservation through film as a medium.
This commitment to analog processes reflects a broader interest in how technological constraints can enhance rather than limit creative expression.
Her portfolio is organized into six thematic series, each exploring distinct visual and conceptual territories through carefully selected film stocks (as organized on evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com):
Chromatic (Episodes 1–4)
- Episode 1, Monochrome — Kodak Ektachrome 100
- Episode 2, Saturate — Cinestill 50 Daylight, 400 Dynamic, 800 Tungsten
- Episode 3 Part 1, CMYK — Kodak Ultramax 400, Velvia 50
- Episode 3 Part 2, Kaleidoscope — Kodak Ultramax 400
- Episode 4, Prism — Kodak Color Plus 200
Realm (Volumes 1–5)
- Volume 1, Amphibian — Kodak Portra 800
- Volume 2, Quixote — Kodak Ektachrome 100, Gold 200
- Volume 3, Inertia — Fujifilm Superia 200
- Volume 4, Deja Vu — Fujifilm Superia 200
- Volume 5, Fairytale — Fujifilm Superia 200
Return to Sender (Volumes 1–4)
- Volume 1, Icarus — Cinestill 800 Tungsten
- Volume 2, Phoenix — Lomography Color 100, 800
- Volume 3, Lucid — Cinestill 800 Tungsten, Lomography Color 800
- Volume 4, Sisyphus — Kodak Ektachrome 100
Occam's Razor (Volumes 1–4) — Ilford Delta XP2, Delta 100, Lomography Lady Grey 400
Sports (Volumes 1–3)
- Volume 1, Bishop — Fuji Color Superia 200
- Volume 2, Wheels — FujiColor 100
- Volume 3, Jock — Cinestill 800 Tungsten
Elemental (Volumes 1–4)
- Volume 1, That Sinking Feeling — Cinestill 50 Daylight, 400 Dynamic
- Volume 2, Inferno — Cinestill 400 Dynamic
- Volume 3, Directionless — Cinestill XX, Kodak Ektachrome 100, RetroChrome 400
- Volume 4, Back to the Roots — Kodak Ektachrome 100
Evelyn's 35mm photography portfolio is available at evelyngoroza.myportfolio.com
Despite quitting social media, Evelyn's 35mm photography content is also available on her (unmonitored) instagram page: instagram.com/evelyngoroza
Her technical approach demonstrates fluency across a wide range of emulsions—from Kodak Ektachrome and Portra to Cinestill's tungsten-balanced cinema stocks, Lomography's experimental emulsions, and classic Ilford black-and-white films—selecting each based on the emotional and aesthetic requirements of the series. The six series collectively encompass 25 individual volumes spanning portraiture, landscape, street photography, sports, and documentary work.
She created an exclusive product line for post.script., an AAPI-woman-owned boutique in San Francisco's Lower Pacific Heights neighborhood, where she also served as Social Media Manager in 2023. During this time, she provided consulting services for film labs and managed social media strategy, analyzing engagement metrics to grow the boutique's online community across Instagram (8K+ followers) and TikTok.
Salome Magazine
In 2023, Goroza founded and published Salome Magazine (ISBN: 9798210709875), a bi-annual editorial focused on film photography and the use of modern analog technology. The inaugural issue, "Fall/Winter 2023: Why Film?", spans 118 pages featuring over forty international photographers, writers, and artists, each unveiling their stories and work in an increasingly digital world. As Founder and Editor-in-Chief, she managed end-to-end production including contributor outreach, editorial direction, and print coordination.
The magazine's release was celebrated with a month-long gallery exhibition at Aeronaut Brewing Company in Somerville, MA (December 2023 – January 2024), where Goroza sold copies of the publication alongside framed prints of her photography. The project represented a culmination of creative work that began during her days in clinical research, providing an outlet that balanced autonomous creativity with structured discipline.
Research Publications
Goroza's research has been published in peer-reviewed venues and academic conferences. Selected publications include:
First-author publications
[1] Goroza, E. (2025). Quantifying calibration: Bridging trust and reliance in automation across cultural values and dispositional factors [Master's thesis, Tufts University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (Order No. 32238898).
[2] Goroza, E., McCarthy-Bui, G., Zhao, A., Ostenson, E. R., & Miller, D. B. (2025). Quantifying calibration: Bridging trust and reliance in automation across dispositional factors. In CHI '25 Workshop on Hybrid Automation Experiences (AutomationXP25), Yokohama, Japan. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 4101.
Conference and journal papers
[3] Hayes, R., Milto, E., Goroza, E., & Cross, J. (2025). WIP: Development and pilot results of ORBIT: A visual robot-programming tool supporting computational thinking and executive functioning skills in special education. In 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Nashville, TN, pp. 1-5. doi: 10.1109/FIE63693.2025.11328697
[4] Riveline, J-P., Renard, E., Aleppo, G., Bode, B. W., Brown, S. A., Castorino, K., Hirsch, I. B., Kipnes, M. S., Laffel, L. M., Lal, R. A., Penfornis, A., Shah, V. N., Thivolet, C., Weinstock, R. S., & OP5-003 Research Group (including Goroza, E.). (2026). Psychosocial outcomes among adults with type 1 diabetes using a tubeless automated insulin delivery system compared with sensor augmented pump therapy: A randomised, parallel-group clinical trial sub-study. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. doi: 10.1111/dom.70416
[5] Polsky, S., Valent, A. M., Isganaitis, E., Castorino, K., O'Malley, G., Beck, S. E., Gao, P., Laffel, L. M., Brown, F. M., & Levy, C. J. (2024). Performance of the Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitoring system in pregnant women with diabetes. Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics, 26(5), 307–312. doi: 10.1089/dia.2023.0516 [Goroza, E. acknowledged for contributions to Joslin Clinical Research Center study team]