Dr. Daniel V. McGehee is an internationally recognized vehicle safety researcher who is director of the Driving Safety Research Institute and National Advanced Driving Simulator and on the faculty in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (primary), Emergency Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Health, and Public Policy.

For over 30 years Dr. McGehee has done research and design in advanced vehicle safety systems as they relate to driver performance. He developed the first prototype forward collision warning systems for General Motors in the early 1990s and conducted one of the first automated vehicle simulator trials in the 1994. He is currently a member of the US delegation of the Trilateral Human Factors in Automation group that splits its time between Europe, Japan, and the US.

He has been a principal investigator of over $39 million in research for the US DOT, NIH, and the automotive industry and has over 150 scientific publications in the areas of distraction, driver response and technology research and development.

He earned PhD in human factors at the University of Leeds, in the UK.