Researchers in Referent Tracking

RTU researchers

Werner Ceusters studied medicine, neuro-psychiatry, informatics and knowledge engineering in Belgium. Since 1993, he has been involved in numerous national and European research projects in the area of Electronic Health Records, Natural Language Understanding and Ontology. Prior to coming to Buffalo, he was Executive Director of the European Centre for Ontological Research at Saarland University, Germany.  He is currently Professor in the Psychiatry Department of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo NY, Director of the Ontology Research Group of the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, and coordinator of Bioinformatics for the Health Science Faculties at UB.

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Ron Rudnicki has a Master of Arts in Philosophy from SUNY at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Canisius College. Ron joins the RTU from Gartner where he acted as a Software Engineer developing a Business Intelligence application that supports Gartner’s IT Benchmarking service.
Ron is the Business Process Analyst of the RTU, analyzing the electronic healthcare record related business process requirements for all healthcare and associated enterprises in the wider Buffalo area.

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Shahid MANZOOR has a Master In Computer Science from the National College of Computer Science in Lahore, Pakistan, and obtained a second MSc Computer Science at Saarland University, Germany. Prior to coming to Buffalo, he was a full time researcher at IFOMIS, Germany.
Shahid is implementing a prototype Referent Tracking System (RTS) as a client server application where the server can communicate simultaneously with multiple Electronic Health Record clients running at remote locations. The server is intended to be hosted by an institute which serves as hub for all clients. The server is composed of four layers: a Web Server, the Core API, the Database layer and Reasoner layers which communicate with each other through interfaces.

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External collaborators

Naomi WRIGHTON is a PhD student at Aston University, having taken voluntary redundancy from a principal lectureship at Wolverhampton University, where she was mainly teaching software Engineering and the student support co-ordinator for the School of Computing. She has a total of over 20 years teaching experience in mathematics and software engineering, and over 10 years of industrial experience as a programmer/analyst/software engineer. Of particular relevance is two years as the computer programmer for the Health Care Evaluation Research Team in Winchester.
Naomi is investigating the use of the RTS API within the GRIST data-gathering tool to build an RTS repository and provide a suitable reasoning front-end to this. She intends to evaluate this as part of her PhD.

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List of researchers

• CEUSTERS Werner
• MANZOOR Shahid
• RUDNICKI Ron
• WRIGHTON Naomi

 

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