He received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2010. After a postdoctoral period in Toronto and working as a biostatistician in the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, he joined the faculty of Memorial University in June 2013. Candemir's current research interests lie in event history analysis pertaining to analysis of time-to-events, analysis of recurrent events, and multi-state modeling. The intrinsic motivation for his scholarly interests has been statistical issues arising from different disciplines such as medicine, public health, genetics and industry. Candemir has publications in scientific journals including Annals of Applied Statistics, Technometrics and Genetic Epidemiology.