Venk Kandadai, MPH is an Associate Fellow at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Co-founder and CEO of  Diagnostic Driving, Inc., a CHOP/CIRP spin-out company focused on delivering scientifically-validated technologies to reliably identify dangerous drivers and coach them to be safer on the road.

Prior to running Diagnostic Driving full-time, Venk was a Senior Project Manager at CIRP where he was a core member of the Simulated Driving Assessment (SDA) team. The technology developed by this team is being commercially adapted by Diagnostic Driving, Inc. for delivery to broader populations.

With nearly ten years experience in translational research, public health evaluation, health communications, and data science, Venk’s research interests include the application of data science, predictive analytics, and statistical techniques to teen driver research, mHealth evaluation, and outcomes research. At CIRP, Venk managed and analyzed data from several teen driver research projects that utilized the SDA developed and validated at CIRP.  He also worked on several research projects involving driving simulation and behavior, predictive analytics in driving simulation, the development of cloud-based tools to conduct rapid and rigorous evaluation of mHealth applications, and using novel analytical methods to better evaluate how health information is disseminated across social media platforms.

Venk has significant experience in analyzing large nationally representative datasets, including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey (NMVCCS), NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER), and the National Cancer Institute's Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS).