Katie Asmussen is a Research Assistant Professor in Transportation Safety at the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UT-ORII), where she is involved in the convergent research initiative on Energy Storage and Transportation. Her research interests span travel behavior, travel demand modeling, transportation planning, vehicle automation, electrification, choice modeling, and econometrics. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2024 after completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia.

Asmussen’s work centers on how digital and automated systems are reshaping work and personal life, aiming to predict future travel behavior and demand. By integrating engineering with social science, her research develops human-centered solutions to improve traffic safety and reduce congestion. She focuses on interdisciplinary approaches that consider both technological advancements and the behavior of individuals and groups within a “humans-in-the-digital-loop” framework.