Ms Aleksandra Natora

Chair

Aleksandra Natora is Senior Policy Officer at the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. Aleks coordinates the department's Unintentional Injury Prevention Program which includes injury surveillance, child safety, road safety, falls prevention among older people and poisoning prevention. DHHS is a member of the Victorian Government's Road Safety Partnership and contributes population health perspectives to Victoria's Towards Zero Road Safety Strategy. Aleks has over 20 years professional experience in injury prevention and has led injury prevention policy initiatives and programs for several state health departments around Australia. Aleks is also currently studying her PhD in injury prevention and falls among older people, at the Monash University Accident Research Centre.

Professor Andry Rakotonirainy

Presenter

Professor Andry Rakotonirainy directs the Intelligent Transport System Human factor research program within CARRS-Q. He has 25 years of research experience in computer science and brings advanced expertise in road safety and context-aware systems. He has authored over 200 papers including 160 internationally refereed publications. His contribution in road safety is evidenced in his multidiciplinary research grants (ARCs, ISL) and publications. He has been member of  many international program committees. He is a regular visiting Professor to the French institute of sciences and technology for transport, development and networks (IFSTTAR).

Ms Bianca Albanese

Presenter

Bianca Albanese is a biomedical engineer and current PhD candidate at Neuroscience Research Australia and the University of New South Wales. Bianca has experience in studying the burden of injury and identifying effective, translational countermeasures to target these factors. The focus of her PhD is to explore the development of optimal child restraint design to reduce the propensity for child restraint misuse.

Dr Bruce Bolam

Chair

Dr Bruce Bolam is the Chief Preventive Health Officer in the Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria. He has extensive experience in public health and behavioural science, gained through senior roles in research, healthcare, government and non-government organisations in Australia and the UK.

Passionate about behaviour change as a means of tackling the burden of chronic diseases such as cancer and stroke, Bruce was an inaugural Co-Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Leadership in Health Promotion hosted by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, VicHealth. Bruce is a Fellow of both the Public Health Association of Australia and the UK Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and holds several degrees in public health sciences.

Mr Christopher Poulter

Chair

Christopher is a Senior Policy Officer within the newly established Road Safety Victoria; a division of the Department of Transport. Working exclusively in road safety for the past four years, Christopher has over 15 years’ experience working across public health, human movement and clinical care sectors at both a state and national level. His public policy experience includes a strong focus on behaviour change and system-based initiatives. Christopher’s current role includes managing policy and research activities across driver fatigue and distraction. Christopher’s academic background spans across behavioural health sciences, biomedical sciences, public policy and health economics.

Dr Daniel Griffiths

Presenter

Daniel researches naturalistic driving at the Monash University Accident Research Centre, and completed his doctorate at the University of Warwick in the field of interdisciplinary science. Daniel's current research involves comparing older drivers’ mobility needs with alternative transport options as part of the ACT Older Driver NDS (ACTOD), and elucidating safety-relevant driving behaviours within the Ozcandrive Older Driver NDS, and the Australian NDS.

Ms Einat Grimberg

Presenter

Einat Grimberg is a PhD student in the School of Civil Engineering in the University of Queensland. For many years she has been working as a researcher in Or Yarok, a road safety association in Israel, where she was involved in several naturalistic studies, specifically with young drivers and technology. Today her study focuses on psychological and sociological aspects of future mobility.

Dr Eve Mitsopoulos-Rubens

Chair

Eve is a member of the Road Safety team at the Transport Accident Commission where she works on a range of program and policy initiatives focussed on achieving zero deaths and serious injuries on our roads. Eve has 20 years experience working with Government and non-Government stakeholders on a range of projects specifically within safety-critical domains, namely road safety. Eve has particular interests in knowledge translation, policy and program analysis, and evaluation and monitoring processes and practices.

Dr Ian Johnston, AM

Chair

Dr Ian Johnston has worked in the safety field (especially transport safety) since 1966 and his experience spans all modes. He has been a researcher, policy analyst, program administrator, senior executive and non-executive board member across a range of transport modes and settings with the Australian and Victorian governments, with a national R&D company and in academia. He has a special interest in how societies, governments and organisations think about and manage safety and in the translation of research results into policy and practice.  He was Director of MUARC from 2001-2006 and an Adjunct Professor to the end of 2016.

Ian is the independent chair of the National Road Safety Partnership Program and of the Victorian injury data working group and is the independent expert on the Tasmanian Road Safety Council. In addition, he served for six years as a non-executive Director (Deputy Chair) on the Board of the National Transport Commission, was a member of Australia’s inaugural National Road Safety Council for the three years of its existence, served as a non-executive Director on the Board of the Driver Education Centre of Australia Ltd for many years, and is an adviser to the Independent Council on Road Safety International.

Associate Professor Ian Glendon

Presenter

Ian Glendon is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University. His contribution to the psychology of driver behaviour spans over 35 years. A former President of the International Association of Applied Psychology’s (IAAP) Division of Traffic and Transportation Psychology, he is also an elected IAAP Fellow. His interests in driver behaviour include: driver stress, young drivers, driver training, human factors, evaluations, experimental/simulator studies, and roadside interventions. As well as supervising over 30 student projects on driving and road use, he has published many papers, books, and chapters on driver behaviour and related topics. His inter/national conference presentations include ten invited keynote addresses. His print, TV, and radio appearances have included discussion of his driver research topics.

Dr Jake Olivier

Presenter

Jake Olivier is a Professor within the School of Mathematics and Statistics and the Deputy Director of the Transport and Road Safety Research Centre at UNSW Sydney. He received a PhD in mathematics (subject area: spatial statistics) from The University of Mississippi in 2003. Prior to his current position, Jake was the team leader of the biostatistics group with the UNSW Prince of Wales Clinical School and has previously held academic positions at the NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre and the Department of Preventive Medicine at The University of Mississippi Medical Center in the United States.

Jake is a statistician whose research is in biostatistical methods and road safety with an emphasis on vulnerable road users. He also routinely collaborates with many biomedical and public health researchers. His research interests are in deriving estimators for regression to the mean, improving causal inference from quasi-experimental designs, deriving population attributable fractions using external prevalence estimates, and estimating effect sizes for epidemiological measures. His research has assisted in informing public health policy by providing testimony to the NSW Staysafe Committee on two occasions (pedestrian safety and school zones) and an Australian Senate Inquiry (personal choice and community impacts). He has also provided his statistical expertise to ABC’s Fact Check (three occasions) and to the likelihood of winning the Powerball lottery (two occasions).

Dr Jeff Hickman

Presenter

Dr Hickman is a Research Scientist at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. His primary areas of research include community-wide (large scale) applications of behavior-based safety, self-management, and organizational culture change techniques as well as assessing driver behavior, fatigue, work/rest cycles, automated systems, and driver distraction in commercial motor vehicle operations. Although specialising in commercial motor vehicle safety, Dr. Hickman’s research interests are broadly defined as occupational health and safety.

Mr John Wall

Panel member

John Wall is recognised as one of Australia's leading specialists in the application of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for road safety. He has over 25 years of experience in the development of road safety strategies and countermeasures and holds tertiary qualifications in agricultural science, education and public health. He currently holds the position of Program Manager Future Vehicles and Technology with Austroads, the peak body for government road agencies across Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Jon Antin

Presenter

Dr Jon Antin is a Certified Human Factors Professional with more than 30 years of experience in the field. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Vulnerable Road User Safety (CVRUS) at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). He has led several projects related to senior driver safety and mobility emphasizing the effects of capability, behaviour, training, generational affiliation, and attitude on road safety and mobility.

Dr Antin currently serves as the Research Program Manager for the Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility, a Tier 1 University Transportation Center at North Carolina A&T State University. He also played the leading role in establishing the Human Factors of Transportation Safety Graduate Certificate Program at VTTI and remains its inaugural Program Coordinator.

He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Human Factors Option).

Dr Jonny Kuo

Presenter

Jonny Kuo is a Senior Human Factors Scientist at Seeing Machines and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Monash University Accident Research Centre. His current work focuses on the development and validation of real-time operator state sensing systems. He completed his PhD at the Monash University Accident Research Centre in 2016.

Mr Jose Calvo

Presenter

Jose is a PhD Candidate at George Mason University, where he also received his MA in Psychology with a concentration in Human Factors and Applied Cognition. In addition, he currently works as a research fellow at the United States’ Federal Highway Administration, as a part of their Safety R&D department’s Human Factors team, conducting research on the SHRP2 NDS dataset. His dissertation research includes comparing naturalistic driving behaviors, crash rates, and different secondary task type engagement between older and younger drivers.

Professor Jude Charlton

Presenter

Professor Jude Charlton is Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) and leads the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Injury and Violence Prevention. Jude is a behavioural scientist with expertise in ageing, cognition, developmental psychology and movement science.

Jude leads the Behavioural Safety Science research team. Her team is recognised as the leading research group in Australia on the safety of older and impaired drivers, pedestrian and cyclists, and child passenger safety. The team’s research has been influential in shaping policy and practice in the management of safe mobility of vulnerable road users in Australia and internationally.

Jude manages several international collaborations including the Ozcandrive older driver cohort study conducted in collaboration with the Canadian-led project, Candrive. Ozcandrive is the first longitudinal study to monitor real-world driving and health of older Australians.

Dr Kristie Young

Presenter

Kristie is a Senior Research Fellow and an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC). She has over a decade of experience in applied human factors research, primarily in the road transport domain. Kristie‘s main research interests are in driver adaptation to in-vehicle technology, distracted driving, Human Machine Interface design, and vehicle automation.

Dr Kristy Coxon

Presenter

Dr Kristy Coxon is a registered occupational therapist with a PhD in Public Health from the University of Sydney. Kristy holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at Western Sydney University, is a member of  the Translational Health Research Institute and has an honorary position at Injury Division of The George Institute for Global Health.  Kristy's research has evaluated the effectiveness of an individualised program to promote safety and maintain mobility for drivers aged 75 years and older. This research has helped inform policy and practice in the area and bought about important insights into ways to assist older people maintain community mobility regardless of their driving status. She has established a strong research profile in the areas of transport, community mobility, safety and injury prevention. Her research is driven by a strong interest in optimising participation and independence while preserving safety in community groups.

Dr Kyle Wilson

Presenter

Kyle is a Human Factors Research Scientist at Seeing Machines (Canberra), and a research affiliate of University of Huddersfield (UK). Prior to Seeing Machines he worked as a human factors consultant in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dr Laurette Guyonvarch

Presenter

After a PhD on radar (SAR) imagery for military application at the National Board of Research in Aerospace ONERA, Laurette joined Renault in the Research Department in 2003. She was responsible of ADAS sensors development for advanced engineering. She then developed parking assistance sytems for 5 years before joining LAB in 2013. In this common research laboratory between Renault and PSA focused on road safety, she was, first, a data scientist particularly involved in naturalistic driving studies (UDRIVE) and she now leads the driver behaviour team. President of the French delegation of ISO subcommittee focused on Ergonomics (TC22/SC39), she is also involved in several European expert groups on road safety.

Ms Liz Waller

Panel member

Liz Waller is Road Safety Manager with Transurban Limited, one of the world’s largest toll-road operators with roads in Australia, the USA and Canada. Liz works across the group to embed the safe system approach in designing and building new roads, operating its assets and researching new vehicle and road safety technology. Previously, Liz spent almost ten years with the TAC as strategy and program manager with an emphasis on young driver safety, ageing road users and community road safety.  She is currently a panel member of the TRB’s Behavioural Traffic Cooperative Research Program on teen driving safety.

Dr Marilyn Di Stefano

Chair

Dr Mario Mongiardini

Presenter

Associate Professor Michael Fitzharris

Chair

Associate Professor Michael Fitzharris is the Associate Director of Regulation and In-depth Crash Investigations at the Monash University Accident Research Centre and the Injury Outcomes Research Unit. He also holds an honorary staff position at the National Trauma Research Institute at The Alfred.

He completed his PhD in psychology, which examined the physical and mental health consequences (including PTSD and depression) of serious injury sustained in road crashes. Michael's research program covers the entire crash continuum (pre-crash, crash, post-crash) and is centred on measures that prevent crashes, mitigate injury, and improve post-crash health outcomes.

Dr Mohammed Elhenawy

Presenter

Mohammed Elhenawy is a research fellow at the Center for Accident Research and Road Safety- Queensland University of Technology (CARRS-Q). His research interests include machine learning, statistical learning, applied game theory and their application in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS). He has authored or co-authored over 40 ITS related papers.