RESEARCH SUMMARY

My current research is focused on developing applications of ontologies in the biomedical sciences at the National Center for Biomedical Ontology http://www.bioontology.org.

My graduate work was focused on developing formal methods for the representation, manipulation and integration of diverse biological data - such as gene expression, protein interactions & annotations - with prior biological knowledge for the purpose of evaluating alternative hypotheses. The prototype system is available at http://www.hybrow.org.

Apart from my research work, I have experience managing large scale microarray data, teaching microarray data analysis techniques to faculty and students, and have trained in medicine. I am also familiar with basic concepts and methods in mathematical modeling of biological systems as a result of my graduate course work at Penn State and training at the SantaFe institute.