I started my career during the booms and eventual bust of the dotcom and later telecom days. From polishing fiber and designing networks to consulting and sales. I have held a number of technology roles including, Director of Enterprise Systems and Development, Chief Technology Architect, and Director of Research computing.
I now serve as Division Chief for
Pathology Informatics and
Associate Professor in the
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Kentucky.
Building interesting things that solve real problems has motivated me throughout my career. I am happy to apply these motivations by serving as the Director of the
Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) in the
Institute of Biomedical Informatics.
I also enjoy teaching informatics and data science to pathology residents within my home department. In addition, I teach and advise computer science students, through a joint
appointment in the
Department of Computer Science.
For many years I have been involved in regional, national, and international research and education (R&E) networks and cyber infrastructure. I am happy to serve as a Sr. Fellow for the Kentucky Council for Postsecondary Education, where I direct the
Kentucky Regional Optical Network (KyRON).
I completed my PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Professor
Victor W. Marek with the dissertation
Contributions to Edge Computing.
As is customary in some scientific disciplines my academic forebears kept track of their academic genealogy. Here is
my academic genealogy, going back to the 12th century. You might notice a few names on there like Copernicus, Leibniz, Bernoulli (X2), Kant, Euler, Laplace, Poisson, Markov, Tarski, and others.