He is also the director of the Vehicle Systems and Safety Program, an organization of about 40 faculty and staff members involved with Penn State’s Larson Transportation Institute who are focused on advancing vehicle technologies, safety, and human-vehicle interaction. His research focuses on vehicle dynamics both at high speeds (highway vehicles) and low speeds (ground robotics), with particular expertise on collision avoidance, the use of maps to assist in vehicle guidance and new methods for assessing driver behavior around autonomous and driver-assist technologies. He has published nearly 100 papers on applications including high-speed police pursuits, vehicle rollover prevention, hybrid vehicles, bomb disposal robots, and even the similar mathematical relationships between brain seizure and traffic jam dynamics.