I am currently doing my PhD research building a Temporal Reasoning System using Dynamic Bayesian Networks, for understanding the evolution of the condition of acute myocardial infarction patients, with respect to the disease processes and the interventions. My advisor is Professor Peter Haug, MD, and I do my research at LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City.

I am from Tamil Nadu, India, where I obtained my medical degree from Stanley Medical College, Chennai, one of the oldest teaching hospitals in India with more than 2,200 beds. In my free time, I administer and maintain the Stanley Medical College (unofficial) website.

I love to build, break and play with computers, and I have used all generations of Intel processors, beginning with a 8088 with a green phosphor screen, 640K of RAM (which ought to be enough for anyone). At any given time, I have more computers than light bulbs in my apartment.

I have worked as a Research Assistant for the Information Technology Services of the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, where I worked on research projects and building applications for the Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Epidemiology. I did a summer internship at Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, where I did research on Computerized Clinical Practice Guidelines and developed a prototype. I also worked as a Human Anatomy teaching assistant at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

I currently work as a Research Assistant at the Department of Medical Informatics, in collaboration with 3M Health Information Systems, doing research in Vocabulary and Terminology systems and services. I also volunteer on some research projects at the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics.

Apart from these, I have also worked (and still do) as an electrician, carpenter, auto mechanic, offset publisher, farmer, plumber, medical transcription supervisor, fish breeder, electrical gadgets builder, chef, bar tender and a physician).

In my free time, I listen to music (almost anything, except most mainstream music from the past 10 years), hack Linux or Java code on one of my numerous computers, overdose myself on espresso, flip through the pages of my medical textbooks and journals in a vain attempt to remember what I would otherwise forget, and provide free technical support to my friends about computer hardware, software, networking and operating systems.

If you want technical support, I will be more than happy to oblige in exchange for your Tesla. If you don't have one of these, please bring me some espresso (Lavazza preferred) or tiramisu.

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