Education

1989 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA.

1985 M.A. in Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA.

1980 M.S. in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1977 BS in Engineering, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

Academic and Research Positions

1993-               Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Research areas include intelligent integration of information systems, data semantics, data standards, web-based information extraction and integration, global risk management, information security, financial applications, pre-conflict analysis, and  improving safety, operations and management using dynamic modeling and  health information systems, policy and process.

 

1998                Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  “ Information Technology for Financial Services.”

 

1989-1993       Research Scientist, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA. Research areas include distributed heterogeneous information systems, knowledge discovery, technology and risk management, and management of data semantics. Instructor for Information Technology II.

 

1989                Research Associate, Boston University, Boston, MA. Post-doctoral research position. Research areas: rule-based semantic query optimization, intelligent database systems and knowledge discovery in databases.

 

1987                Member Technical Staff, Knowledge-Based Systems Department, GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA. Research and design of heterogeneous database systems.

 

1985-1986       Lecturer, Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Instructor for the graduate course in database theory.

 

1985                Computer Scientist, Computer Corporation of America (Xerox Advanced Information Technology), Cambridge, MA. Research and design of highly available distributed database systems.

 

1983-1989       Research Assistant, Boston University, Boston, MA. Research under National Science Foundation Grants IST-8214662, IST-8408551 and IST-8710137. Research areas: query optimization, distributed database systems, natural language database updates, and knowledge discovery in databases.

 

1978-1980       Research Assistant, Solar Energy Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research areas: systems analysis, simulation and development of simplified design methods for photovoltaic systems.