Eileen Herbers, Research Associate
Division of Freight, Transit, & Heavy Vehicle Safety
Human Factors & Advanced System Testing
Eileen Herbers is a Research Associate in the Division of Freight, Transit & Heavy Vehicle Safety. She received her B.S. in Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics department at Virginia Tech. Her dissertation topic focuses on how to measure the potential safety impact of ADS and where connected vehicle technologies may be necessary. Since 2019, Ms. Herbers has supported various projects at VTTI involving vehicle and pedestrian tracking, sensor fusion evaluation, measuring driver distraction, and calculating and determining key safety surrogate metrics in crash and near-crash scenarios. She is looking forward to applying her knowledge to the heavy vehicle space.