Katherine Chasins
manager,
Exponent
Prior to joining Exponent, Ms. Chasins served as the Special Programs Division Chief in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) Rulemaking Office of Automation Safety between 2023 and 2025. She also served as technical lead for the concept development, drafting, and publication of NHTSA's 2025 ADS-equipped Vehicle Safety, Transparency, and Evaluation Program (AV STEP) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking during her time with the agency, after having joined NHTSA in 2020 as a Crash Avoidance Rulemaking Engineer. Prior to her federal service, Ms. Chasins worked at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (now Stellantis), where she worked in diverse corporate functions through a rotational leadership program before gaining fundamental design and release experience, as well as further systems integration experience, through subsequent roles. Ms. Chasins leverages the skills and knowledge developed by these experiences to provide Exponent’s clients with valuable analysis of vehicle development, safety, and policy issues, particularly those pertaining to vehicle automation technologies.
Sessions
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29-Oct-2026Moderator
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29-Oct-2026Panel discussion: verification, validation and simulation for L4
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