Samantha Haus is a research assistant professor with the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute’s Energy Storage & Transportation Convergent Research Imitative. She also holds an appointment with the University of Tennessee’s Center for Transportation Research.  

Haus teaches in Intelligent Transportation System and her 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’ doctoral dissertation focused on assessing the effectiveness of automatic emergency braking in preventing or mitigating vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-bicyclist crashes. 

Prior to coming to UT, she was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab & Center for Transportation Logistics. While there, 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. 

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