Samantha Haus, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Automation and part of the UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute’s Energy Storage and Transportation convergent research initiative. Haus’s research interests include vehicle automation, electrification, driver behavior and safety, and pedestrian/bicyclist safety. She has extensive experience parsing government-curated crash databases, modeling crashes and injuries, and analyzing naturalistic driving behavior. Haus received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2021 from Virginia Tech. Her dissertation focused on assessing the effectiveness of automatic emergency braking in preventing or mitigating vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-bicyclist crashes. She was also a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab & Center for Transportation Logistics. Her work examined advanced vehicle technologies in naturalistic driving settings, driver adoption of automation features, and the interplay between automation use and risky driving behaviors.