Principal Consultant, Jeya Padmanaban

The Founder of JP Research, Inc., Jeya Padmanaban is the firm’s Principal Consultant and President. She has been practicing the field for over 25 years, performing automotive safety research using field data and taking an active and visible role in helping to direct vehicle safety research. Ms. Padmanaban has been active in various community safety and educational programs, ranging from volunteering as a safety lecturer in schools to participating in the Safe Kids campaign. She has offered traffic safety seminars and lectures, developed injury profiles by location for local county EMS departments in California, and contributed to information exchanges through technical seminars around the globe.

• Awards and Recognition

  The recipient of several awards for her work, including the 2001 SAE WEC BREED award for technical leadership for women, AAAM Best Scientific Paper award (1995), and SAE Transactions award (2005), she has been an invited guest lecturer at Stanford University, SAE, and a National Academy of Sciences Panel, and has been invited by NHTSA to present her research in Government / Industry meetings and data collection training seminars.

• Background and Memberships

  Ms. Padmanaban holds an MS in Operations Research and Statistics and has been a member of the NHTSA Crashworthiness Subcommittee (1998) and the AAAM Scientific Program Committee (1995-1998), served on TOPTEC Safety Advisory Panels, and chaired several SAE sessions. She has also published extensively and has frequently evaluated NHTSA (and other) research and performed studies relating to rollovers, vehicle compatibility, injury risk, restraint system performance (front/rear seat belt effectiveness), and airbag safety performance.

• Papers & Presentations

  Ms. Padmanaban has presented over 50 papers (mostly peer reviewed) and presentations at prestigious technical conferences, including:

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Conference
  • Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) Annual Conference
  • International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine (IATM) World Congress
  • International Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact (IRCOBI)
  • International Body Engineering Conference & Exhibition (IBEC)
  • Automotive and Transportation Technology (ATT) Congress
  • Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
  • SAE/Toptech
  • SAE International World Congress
  • SAE Western India Section
  • SAE Government/Industry Meetings