Research Interests

• Biological data management and integration
• Bioinformatics and computational proteomics
• Information Engineering
• Information based medicine

Before joining UofT, I spent 10 years in the biotech industry both in US and Canada, developing data management technology and large scale information infrastructures for leading genomic information, proteomics and drug discovery companies. For the past three years,  I served as Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer at Protana (former MDS Proteomics), a Canadian proteomics discovery company. From 2001 to 2002, I was Director of Data Management in Target Validation and Drug Discovery at Incyte Genomics. Between 1997 and 2001, I was the Director of Gene Expression Data Management and played a lead role in the development of Gene Logic's Gene Express and Genesis product lines. I have also held staff scientist positions at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Affymetrix. In my industrial practice, I applied my formal training in knowledge and data management, to enable science and technology driven organizations to generate, organize and interpret scientific data, and to leverage their data to make discoveries and/or generate information products. In my research program, my goal is to draw from my industrial experience and investigate flexible and efficient, next generation information architectures for biomedical and health science organizations.

Contact Information
University of Toronto
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
5 King's College Road
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8