Author name: Elion Varek

Elion Varek is a control systems engineer and human-machine interface specialist with 14 years of field experience designing fail-safe manual override protocols for industrial automation, aviation, and medical robotics. Certified by ISA and ISO/IEC 61508, he led the override architecture for three IEC 62061–compliant surgical platforms. He holds a PhD in Human Factors Engineering from TU Delft and lectures globally on deterministic override latency and operator cognitive load.