Jeya Padmanaban — JP Research, Inc.

Ms. Padmanabam's key areas of expertise include: Statistical analysis using injury and accident data; consumer complaint data analysis; warranty data analysis; claims data analysis; customer contact data analysis; reliability analysis; survival analysis; comparative risk analysis; vehicle crashworthiness studies; regression analysis; use of non-parametric techniques; label effectiveness evaluation; product safety performance analysis; statistical survey design and implementation (exposure and usage data); safety standards assessment; risk management studies; economic valuation; evironmental/agricultural statistical analysis; data mining/data analytics; econometrics/financial analysis and failure rate analysis.

For over 25 years, Ms. Padmanaban has examined the field performance of passenger vehicles (cars, sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and vans), consumer products, motorcycles, heavy trucks, vehicle/product parts and systems (airbags, seatbacks, seat belts, brakes, transmissions, child seats, booster seats, axles), amusement park rides and trams, recreational vehicles, elevators and escalators, waterbed heaters, forklifts, slides, cable cars, tractor trailer underrides, tractor trailer backings, golf carts, boats, and off-road vehicles.

Ms. Padmanaban has published extensively and received numerous awards and industry recognition—including the prestigious 2001 SAE WEC BREED award for technical leadership for women and the SAE Outstanding Achievement Award for her contribution. She is frequently invited by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to make presentations at the Government/Industry meetings, ESV conferences, and Technical symposiums, and by the Office of Defect Investigation (ODI) to address field performance of motor vehicles/components. Currently, she is on the Board of Directors for the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) and the Editorial Advisory Board for the journal Accident Analysis and Prevention.

Globally, Ms. Padmanaban has given talks and organized vehicle safety seminars in India and South East Asia, presented research on traffic accident patterns and injury profiles in developing countries for international agencies, and worked with Indian safety organizations to promote belt use and helmet use. She is also working with local police agencies in India to perform (and establish methodologies for) detailed on-site accident investigations and data collection in India.