Hana Chan

Hana Chan, Ph.D.

Staff Consultant

Dr. Hana Chan is a Staff Consultant at Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi) in the Aurora, Illinois office. Dr. Chan specializes in biomechanical analysis, injury biomechanics, and automotive safety. She has research experience in human volunteer testing, motion capture systems, surface electromyography, and anthropomorphic test device testing. She also has experience in mechanical testing and soft tissue biomechanics. At ESi, Dr. Chan applies her expertise to a range of investigative scenarios, including motor vehicle accidents, injury causation, accident reconstruction, safety analyses, product and premises liability claims, and slips, trips, and falls.
      
Prior to joining ESi, Dr. Chan earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences where she conducted research at the Center for Injury Biomechanics. For her dissertation research, Dr. Chan quantified the occupant responses of relaxed and braced small female and mid-size male human volunteers during low-speed frontal and frontal-oblique sled tests.
      
Dr. Chan has presented her research at international conferences and is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings, including the SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety and International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury.

Publications

  • Comparison of THOR-AV and Volunteer Kinematics during Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury Conference, September 2024
  • Volunteer Bracing Strategies and Variability before Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury Conference, September 2023
  • Occupant Kinetics and Muscle Responses of Relaxed and Braced Small Female and Mid-Size Male Volunteers in Low-Speed Frontal Sled Tests, SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety, 11 (3), June 2023
  • Occupant Kinematics of Braced 5th Percentile Female and 50th Percentile Male Volunteers in Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury Conference, September 2022
  • Comparisons of Initial Joint Angles and Test Buck Reaction Forces for Relaxed and Braced 5th Female and 50th Male Volunteers and Analogous Active Human Body Models in a Simulated Driver’s Seat, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury Conference, September 2021
  • Assessment of Acclimation of 5th Percentile Female and 50th Percentile Male Volunteer Kinematics in Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests, SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety, 9 (1): 3-103, November 2021
  • See CV for further publications

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