Ashley Nylen is the Assistant Director for Mobility Technology within the Office of Innovative Mobility at the Colorado Department of Transportation. Ms. Nylen is responsible for CDOT’s strategy with connected and autonomous technologies in Colorado. Her work features evaluation of advanced technologies to achieve CDOT's mission, data collection and usage, encouraging and facilitating interoperability of data and technology, and future policy recommendations. Prior to joining CDOT, Ms. Nylen led the Automated Driving Systems Research Division at the National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa.