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Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 245-252
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is the Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation dean and professor of statistics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Previously, he held faculty positions and served as director of undergraduate studies in the department of statistics at Harvard University.
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His past projects have included investigating the crash experience of younger truck drivers, developing an event tree for heavy truck accidents, and developing statistical models relating vehicle configuration and operating environment to the probability of accident involvement. He is chair of the Michigan Truck Safety Commission, and he previously served on the Technical Advisory Group for American Transportation Research Institute on Truck Drivers Hours of Service study; the Technical Advisory Committee on National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and the Large Truck Crash Causation Study committee for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
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He is a fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Physiological Society, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science, an overseas fellow of the International Association of Traffic and Safety Societies, and an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is a recipient of the Decade of Behavior Research Award from the American Psychological Association and the Distinguished Public Service Medal from the U.S.
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FENG GUO is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he is affiliated with the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. His primary areas of research are transportation statistics, Bayesian hierarchical models, traffic safety models, spatial statistics, and statistical epidemiology.
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In 2015 the American Psychological Association awarded him the Flannagan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Psychology. He served over 20 years as book review editor for Ergonomics in Design; is an associate editor for Military Psychology; served as section editor for Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine; and he was a member of the editorial board of the Society for Human Performance in Extreme Environments.
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recently retired from the Transportation Research Board, where he was the transportation safety coordinator in the board's Technical Activities Division. He served as staff to a wide range of committees, including studies of truck and bus safety, statistics in transportation, visualization in transportation, and future truck and bus safety research opportunities, as well as an international conference on research on the health and wellness of commercial truck and bus drivers. Prior to his work for the Transportation Research Board, his work focused on human factors and safety research and evaluation in the transportation, nuclear, civil, and military areas, conducting numerous laboratory, simulation, and fully operational experiments; training, development, conduct, and evaluation studies; and human engineering reviews.
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Previously, she was a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Her primary areas of research include statistical methodology for mental health research, particularly relating to causal inference and missing data.
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He is also an adjunct professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and vice president of the Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health. His epidemiologic research includes the study of acute and chronic occupational respiratory disease, cancer risk, and musculoskeletal disorders, and he also studies the subjective outcomes as early indicators of health effects, surveillance of occupational conditions and risks, and occupational health policy.
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