Venk Kandadai, MPH
Associate Fellow

Venk Kandadai, MPH is an Associate Fellow at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at 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.

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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).

BS, Temple University (Biology and Mathematics)

MPH, Temple University (Concentration in Biostatistics)

Co-Founder/CEO, Diagnostic Driving, Inc.

Kandadai V, Yang H, Jiang L, Yang CC, Fleisher L, Winston FK. Measuring Health Information Dissemination and Identifying Target Interest Communities on Twitter: Methods Development and Case Study of the @SafetyMD NetworkJMIR Res Protoc. 2016;5(2):e50.

McDonald CC, Kandadai V, Loeb H, et al. Simulated Driving Assessment (SDA) for Teen Drivers: Results Fom a Validation Study. Inj. Prev.. 2015.

Loeb H, Kandadai V, McDonald CC, Winston FK. Emergency Braking in Adults Versus Novice Teen Drivers: Response to Simulated Driving EventsTransp Res Rec. 2015;2516:8-14.

McDonald CC, Kandadai V, Loeb H, et al. Evaluation of a Risk Awareness Perception Training Program on Novice Teen Driver Behavior at Left-Turn Intersections. Transp Res Rec. 2015;2516:15-21.

Loeb H, Kandadai V, Winston FK, DS C-M. Open Source Computer Vision Solution for Head and Gaze Tracking in a Driving Simulator EnvironmentSAE International Journal of Passenger Cars-Mechanical Systems. 2015;8:573-583.

Contact Information

venk@diagnosticdriving.com
215-315-3204
705 S. 50th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19143