Keith Friedman has been in the field of research and development of transportation safety for more than 35 years and currently is president of Friedman Research Corporation (FRC), with offices in Austin, Texas and Santa Barbara, California. FRC conducts research on leading edge problems in protecting people and structures under impact and blast conditions with the vision of supporting manufacturers and suppliers in the development of new products and design approaches.Extensive experience in transportation safety research, including:• Accident analysis, reconstruction and simulation• Occupant and restraint-structure impact simulation • Analysis of occupant injury measures• Analysis of crash conditions and relationship of injuries to crash conditions• Advanced occupant protection system design, development and testing, including airbags, air-belts and passive interiors• Child seat, helmet and pedestrian impact testing, evaluation and countermeasure design• Evaluation of safety design trends and the effects of alternative restraint-structure performance characteristics on occupant protection• Relationships of dummy injury measures to human injury probabilities• Unrestrained occupant protection systems• Wide-ranging work in computer-based system design and software development, computer analysis, and dynamic impact modeling and simulations• Extensive experience in crash testing and instrumentation• Fireworthiness design and evaluation• Blast Protection• Airline seat design, testing and evaluation