Laura Stanley is on a joint-appointment as an assistant professor in Montana State University's
mechanical and industrial department and a research scientist at the Western Transportation Institute.
Before coming to MSU, Stanley worked as an engineer for IBM in North Carolina and taught at Virginia
Tech and was a researcher at Virginia Tech’s Transportation Institute. Stanley's research focuses on the
human factors in transportation safety. Stanley earned her B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering
from Virginia Tech, and her master's and doctorate degrees in industrial engineering from MSU.