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UB Expert

Colin G. Drury

Expertise:

• Effectiveness of airport security
• Homeland security
• Effectiveness of aircraft maintenance inspections
• Safety of consumer products, such as bicycles and hand-held calculators

Drury directs UB's Research Institute for Safety and Security in Transportation (RISST), which studies how human factors contribute to errors and inefficiencies in security systems, such as those used to inspect baggage and screen passengers in airports. Funded by the Transportation Security Administration, RISST also investigates how and why inspectors fail to find defects during routine aircraft maintenance.

Drury is a member of TSA's Scientific Advisory Panel and serves on the National Research Council's Panel on Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security. As a member of these panels, he has reviewed security systems in airports around the world.