I am currently working as a Senior Program Manager in the Advanced Research Services and Tools (ARTS) team within the External Research division at Microsoft Research. I joined Microsoft in 1999 and Microsoft Research in 2008.

Currently I am working on Project Trident Scientific Workflow Workbench.  I am also working on using Dryad and DryadLINQ to solve data intensive computational problems.

Before joining Microsoft Research, I was with Microsoft Consulting Services. I had the opportunity to represent Microsoft to help enterprise customers to develop large scale enterprise applications using .Net technologies.   I had significant contributions to the State of Washington Voter Registration System, State of Washington Digital Archive System, and State of Washington Labor and Industries Provider Billing System. I also worked with the BizTalk HIPAA Accelerator team to provide HIPAA transaction solutions (version 2.0) in healthcare.

Prior to my work at Microsoft I spent three years as a developer in a startup developing state of the art alerting system for managing abnormal lab events, drug-drug interactions, and potential infectious disease outbreak. I received my Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from University of Utah. My research interest was artificial intelligence in disease diagnosis, specifically using Bayesian inference theorem and Shannon information theory for quantifying information value to assist medical diagnoses, medical student education, and quality assurance.

My current research interests focus on scientific workflows and parallel computing on multi-core computers and large computer clusters. I also want to take advantage of emerging cloud based systems to solve large scale data intensive computational problems.