Bio

I am a Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Transportation Research and Education and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) at Iowa State University. My areas of research expertise include both theoretical and practical applications in transportation safety, real-world impacts of driver assistance technologies (DAT) and other vehicle technologies, connected and autonomous vehicle systems, and human factors. I also specialize in policy and regulatory rule-making considerations. Before joining Iowa State University, I worked as a safety researcher/data scientist for Ford Motor Company from 2017–2020. I also had positions at Wayne State University (Adjunct Assistant Professor), the City of Livonia (Traffic Commissioner), and was an Assistant Professor from 2016-2017 at South Dakota State University.

I received my PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 2016. I received my Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Utah in 2012 and 2011, respectively. My Masters thesis evaluated the safety impacts of design exceptions in Utah, utilizing a causal inference framework. My PhD dissertation expanded on the fundamentals I learned as a Masters student and applied a causal inference framework to traditional transportation safety analysis methods to create updated methods that are more robust to potential biases.

Some of my current professional interests include:

• Roadway and Roadside Design

• Public Transit

• Safety Performance Analysis

• Data Science

• Statistical and Econometric Methods

• Causal Inference

• Crash Reconstruction and Forensics

• Optimization

• Sustainability

• Programming

I am currently members of the following professional committees and panels:

• TRB Standing Committee on Safety Performance and Analysis (ACS20)

• TRB Standing Committee on Statistical Methods (ABJ80/AED60)

• NCHRP 22-54 Panel Member

• NCHRP 22-49 Panel Member

• NCHRP 22-45 Panel Member