Donald Fisher, Ph.D., has been a Principal Technical Advisor and Engineering Psychologist at the U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center in Cambridge, MA since 2015 where he has worked on human factors issues across the different modes of transportation, including those that have focused on automation, distraction, and training. Prior to his service at the Volpe Center, Dr. Fisher joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982 where he was a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, serving most recently as Department Head (2009 – 2015). He has presented and published more than 500 scientific papers, has edited or co-authored four books (including the Handbook of Human Factors for Automated, Connected and Intelligent Vehicles, Handbook of Driving Simulation for Engineering, Medicine and Psychology and the Handbook of Teen and Novice Drivers), as well as serving on the National Academy of Sciences Human Factors Committee and numerous federal advisory panels (NIH, NSF, NHTSA), as chair of a Transportation Research Board standing committee, and as an Associate Editor of Human Factors. He has been invited to present at numerous national and international conferences, including China, Canada, Israel, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom. Dr. Fisher earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Bowdoin College, a Master’s degree in education from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology from the University of Michigan.