Dr. Zachary Doerzaph both directs the Center for Advanced Automotive Research at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and serves as Associate Professor in the department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics (BEAM).
Dr. Doerzaph coordinates a research team of faculty and students focused on measuring and improving the performance of next-generation transportation systems. Working alongside multi-disciplinary collaborators from academia, industry, and government, Dr. Doerzaph strives to improve safety through advanced design, development, and evaluation of connected vehicles, collision avoidance systems, automated driving systems, driver interfaces, big data analytics, driver behavior monitoring and evaluation.
Dr. Doerzaph is passionate about educating the transportation safety workforce. He believes transformative improvements in the human condition are only possible through combining traditional transportation engineering approaches with high-technology solutions derived from a variety of disciplines. Dr. Doerzaph is a thought-leader and visionary yet balanced with technical knowledge in system integration, training, and hands-on experience with vehicle design, data acquisition, and research methods.
