Driving Safety Research Institute (DSRI)
is a transportation safety research center that uses its suite of world-class driving simulators and instrumented on-road vehicles to conduct research studies for the private and public sectors. Focusing on human factors, automated vehicles, and drugged and drowsy driving, their research aims to provide safer roads for the future.
Researchers you should know
Meet our faculty
Venanzio Cichella
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Daniel McGehee
Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Thomas Schnell
Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hiroyuki Sugiyama
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Nicole Corcoran
PhD student, Industrial and Systems Engineering
“As an Industrial and Systems Engineering graduate student, I get to apply my knowledge across various domains: from studying human factors to statistical modeling; or from autonomous vehicle research to water sustainability in rural India. All of this is made possible by the dynamic, collaborative, and innovative research initiatives here at Iowa.”