O. Siebinga

O. Siebinga is a Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology specializing in human-automation interaction within transportation systems. Their work bridges Industrial Design Engineering and Mechanical Engineering to model human driver behavior in autonomous vehicle contexts, with emphasis on communication-enabled traffic frameworks and safety-critical scenarios like highway merging.

Education:

• Ir. (Engineering Degree) in Industrial Design Engineering
• PhD completed in 2024 with dissertation: Communication-Enabled Interactions in Highway Traffic: A joint driver model for merging

Research focuses on decoding human-vehicle interaction dynamics through driving simulators and computational modeling. Key interests include conflict resolution in traffic, AI-driven behavior assessment, and human factors in automated systems. This interdisciplinary work integrates transportation engineering, cognitive science, and human-computer interaction to develop cooperative vehicle controllers that anticipate human behavior.

Recent publications reveal a concentrated effort on highway merging behavior using the Communication-Enabled Interaction Framework. Studies combine experimental methods (coupled driving simulators) with computational models to analyze dyadic interactions, control inputs, and decision-making processes. A notable trend involves translating human communication patterns into formalized models for automated vehicle controllers.

No scientific awards are documented in the available information.

Collaborative research patterns indicate active participation in multi-investigator projects, though specific grants or student supervision details are unreported. Work consistently involves cross-disciplinary teams from TU Delft’s engineering faculties.

Siebinga contributes to the JOAN framework—a virtual reality platform for human-automated vehicle interaction experiments—and develops open-source software for modeling traffic interactions, supporting reproducible research in intelligent transportation systems.