Chait Renduchintala

Biography

Dr. Chait Renduchintala is an assistant professor at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in the department of Tourism, Events and Attractions. He works with the Rosen College’s infectious disease and travel health initiative. He holds a master’s degree in Biomedical Science and a Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation from the University of Central Florida.

His research interests include travel and health data modeling with a focus on community health and resiliency. In community health, his interests include utilization of synthetically generated health data to facilitate collaboration and data sharing across organizations, generation of community scale knowledge graphs, community health outcome modeling, community health systems design, community scale AI applications, community health network analysis and evidence-based community health planning.

In tourism and travel health, his interests encompass the promotion of cultural tourism with AI and data science, tourism specialization in emerging and rural regions, measurement models of democratization and related constructs such as social capital, equity, inclusion, and uniqueness. He also specializes in the construction of models and systems to manage destinations and promote policy making and participation, as well as systems design to facilitate travel planning, cultural tourism, social inclusion, destination management and transfer learning between travel stakeholders and destinations.