About Us

Vision

JP Research India’s goal is to establish a world-renowned traffic safety research and training centre in India to improve traffic safety on Indian roads and highways. This centre will focus on conducting accident investigations, providing research support and training, and disseminating competent and scientifically analyzed accident data for organizations and agencies directly/indirectly influencing the Indian road traffic scenario.

Mission

To mitigate accidents and injuries to road users in India by helping local automotive safety organizations, government agencies, and manufacturers through accident and safety research and training, and by creating public awareness of automotive safety issues.

Team members

Ms. Jeya Padmanaban
     President and Founder, JP Research

An internationally known statistician with a BS degree in mathematics (India) and an MS in Operations Research/Statistics (George Washington University, USA), Ms. Jeya Padmanaban has been performing statistical analyses of motor vehicle accident data to address vehicle safety and occupant injury experience for over 20 years.

Ms. Padmanaban has a long history of interacting closely with local, state, and federal personnel particularly those at the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) responsible for collecting, coding, and analyzing automobile accident data. Her in-depth knowledge of not only the information contained in these databases but of how that data is collected and coded is the foundation for the performance of careful, competent auto safety research at every level. Currently she is applying this knowledge to directing the development of new, detailed, and consistent data collection and analysis efforts for various localities in India.

Often recognized for excellence in her field, Ms. Padmanaban was honored with the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2001 WEC/BREED Award for Women's Leadership. An elected Board Member of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), she has also served on the Crashworthiness Subcommittee of NHTSA's Event Data Recorder working group (1998), the AAAM Scientific Program Committee (1995-1998), and the Safety Advisory Panel for SAE/TOPTEC. For more details, click here.

JP Research India Staff

Ravishankar Rajaraman
     Manager, Safety Group, JP Research India

Mr. Ravishankar Rajaraman is Manager of Safety Group for the JP Research India office. He has a dual-country degree in Automotive Engineering (MS from Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA and International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India) and has performed projects in the SAE-Automotive Headquarters (Troy, MI) and at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Vehicle Research Center (Ruckersville, VA) as part of his academic training. His Master's thesis, on "The Role of Accident Investigation in USA and its Applicability to India," well prepared him for the projects he has undertaken for JP Research India, which have included directing in-house research projects, performing several large-scale on-site accident data collection and analysis efforts, organizing educational seminars, and making major contributions to JP Research India’s newsletter (SafetySpeak!). Mr. Rajaraman has also written and presented a number of technical papers and made presentations at conferences throughout Asia.

Mr. Rajaraman’s prior experience includes two years in the insurance industry as a motor vehicle loss assessor and automotive trainer for Tata AIG General Insurance Company, where he was recognized for his contributions in the area of vehicle loss estimation and training. He was also an active SAE-India student member and was awarded the SAE International Outstanding Student Officer Award for the year 2001-2002.

Swastik Narayan
     Automotive Safety Engineer, Certified AIS Injury Coder

Mr.Swastik Narayan is an Automotive Safety Engineer. He is a graduate from Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore with a BE in Mechanical Engineering. After his graduation he had been working for Infosys in Mysore. Since joining JP Research India, Mr.Swastik Narayan has provided valuable assistance in not only managing the on-site crash investigation programs of the company, but also leading the injury-related data collection and research. Being a certified AIS injury coder from AAAM (Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine), he is involved in the detailed understanding and coding of injuries as per AIS and ICD-10, in consultation with international experts in this area. Mr.Swastik Narayan has also made significant contributions to the development of crash data forms and accident databases designed for India. He provides data support for research papers and company presentations, and has co-authored papers and national and international conference presentations. He is an active member of SAE-India.

Bharat Ramesh
     Associate Engineer, Automotive Safety

Mr. Bharat Ramesh is a mechanical engineering graduate from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. Formerly a software engineer with Accenture, since joining the JP Research India team in 2009, Mr. Ramesh has been assisting in urban safety research projects, examining on-site crashes, and performing in-depth crash data collection and investigation. He has emerged to play a key role in accident research projects by utilizing his multi-lingual capabilities to collect and code accident data from accident records (hand-written in local language) obtained through police and transport corporations. Mr.Ramesh also provides research support for writing technical articles, research papers and preparing presentations to showcase crash investigation research activities of the company.

Vinothkumar Kandasamy
     Associate Engineer, Automotive Safety

Mr. Vinothkumar Kandasamy is an automobile engineer. He has provided valuable assistance in managing the on-site crash investigation programs of the company. Mr. Vinothkumar plays a key role in maintaining relations with police and obtaining their co-operation for collecting records of vehicles involved in accidents studied under our on-site crash investigation programs. Mr. Vinothkumar has also made significant contributions to the development of crash data forms and accident database design for India. He provides data support for research papers and company presentations. His responsibilities also include researching issues of interest to Indian road users and writing technical articles for JP Research India’s newsletter (SafetySpeak!). He is also an active member of SAE-India.

Greg Stadter
     Senior Crash Investigator, JP Research-USA

Mr. Greg Stadter has been performing crash reconstruction of motor vehicle accidents for the past decade. Prior to joining JP Research, he worked with both the National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) and Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network (CIREN). Both programs are associated with the US Department of Transportation and NHTSA. He has experience performing detailed crash reconstruction on motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian crashes, and motorcycle crashes, and he has designed JP Research India’s training program, teaching many of the courses himself. Mr. Stadter served as the CIREN Crash Committee Chairman from 2007 to 2008, and he has authored a number of papers on occupant and pedestrian injury and trauma in motor vehicle crashes and has made numerous presentations on topics related to crash reconstruction and automotive safety. In addition, he was awarded the 2008 John Templeton Injury Prevention Award for his research on airbags.

Matthew Fitzgerald
     Engineering Associate, JP Research-USA

Mr. Matthew Fitzgerald holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) with an emphasis in Automotive Engineering from ABET accredited San Diego State University. He began his automotive engineering career while still in college, playing a key role on the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Mini-Baja Off-Road Buggy team. Of his many roles on the small team, the most important included leading the scheduling, design, and complete fabrication of a fully capable single-driver off-road buggy for competition against 84 other universities. He was the designer of the buggy's suspension system, utilizing SolidWorks CAD engineering software and Finite Element Analysis to produce the optimal front and rear suspensions for the buggy based on SAE-determined size, weight, and cost metrics. He began his professional career with a medical device company, becoming certified as a user of Autodesk Inventor CAD engineering software. He later worked as a Mechanical Design Engineer for a military defence company, utilizing PRO/Engineer Wildfire software to design components for the robust Bradley Fighting Vehicle, while simultaneously earning credits toward his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. He continued designing and managing projects for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) before joining the JP Research team to assist in gathering and analysing data related to accident research to ultimately make our roads a safer place. He has delved into helping make foreign roads a safer place as well. He has also spent 3 weeks with the JPR India team collecting on-site accident data, learning accident reconstruction software, and assisting the team in building a fully comprehensive accident database which will help increase knowledge of road safety in India and abroad and will, most importantly, help to save more lives on our world's roads.