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 low-speed impacts, human volunteer testing, anthropomorphic test device (ATD) testing, motion capture systems, and surface electromyography. 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, accident reconstruction, workers’ compensation claims, product and premises liability claims, and slips, trips, and falls.
Prior to joining ESi, Dr. Chan earned a PhD 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. Her dissertation research focused on quantifying the occupant responses of 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.
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Publications
- Advanced Camera Matching Techniques and Human Factors Methodologies for Pedestrian Fall Analysis and Investigation, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, October 2025
- Elevator Passenger Accelerations during Emergency Stops, Normal Elevator Travel, and Everyday Activities, Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, 61(1): 23-32., January 2025
- 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
- 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
- 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