Simon Mercer
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH & WELLBEING
Microsoft External Research
I have a background in Zoology and worked as Director of Software Engineering at Gene Codes Corporation before moving to Microsoft Research in 2005. In my current role as Director of Health and Wellbeing, I manage a range of collaborations between Microsoft and academia in the area of healthcare research.
For more information, see Health and Wellbeing.
My interests include bioinformatics, synthetic biology, translational medicine and the management of scientific data.
Recent Health & Wellbeing Publications
- Helena M. Mentis, Kenton O'Hara, Abigail Sellen, and Rikin Trivedi, Interaction Proxemics and Image Use in Neurosurgery, ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 2012
- Yaki Setty, Diana Dalfó, Dorota Z. Korta, E. Jane Albert Hubbard, and Hillel Kugler, A model of stem cell population dynamics: in-silico analysis and in-vivo validation, in Development, vol. 139, pp. 47 - 56, January 2012
- Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz, From Web Search to Healthcare Utilization: Privacy-Preserving Studies from Mobile Data , no. MSR-TR-2012-2, January 2012
- Richard Banks, The future of looking back, Microsoft, September 2011
- Hyunyoung Song, Hrvoje Benko, Francois Guimbretiere, Shahram Izadi, Xiang Cao, and Ken Hinckley, Grips and Gestures on a Multi-Touch Pen, ACM Conference on Human Factors for Computing Systems (CHI), 2011, 9 May 2011
Recent Computational Science Publications
- Yaki Setty, Diana Dalfó, Dorota Z. Korta, E. Jane Albert Hubbard, and Hillel Kugler, A model of stem cell population dynamics: in-silico analysis and in-vivo validation, in Development, vol. 139, pp. 47 - 56, January 2012
- Lindsay A Turnbull, Christopher D Philipson, Drew W Purves, and AndOthers, (in press) Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation, in Ecology, Ecological Society of America, 2012
- A Kumaran, Naren Datha, Vikram Dendi, and Ashwani Sharma, WikiBhasha: OurExperiences with Multilingual Content Creation Tool for Wikipedia, in Proceedings of the Wikipedia India Conference 2011, Wikimedia Foundation, December 2011
- Neil Dalchau, Understanding biological timing using mechanistic and black-box models, in New Phytologist, Early View available, 14 November 2011
- Neil Dalchau, Andrew Phillips, Leonard D Goldstein, Mark Howarth, Luca Cardelli, Stephen Emmott, Tim Elliott, and Joern M Werner, A peptide filtering relation quantifies MHC class I peptide optimization, in PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. e1002144, PLoS, 13 October 2011
Researchers Interested in Health & Wellbeing
Mary Czerwinski
RESEARCH MGR/
PRINCIPAL RES
Kentaro Toyama
ASSISTANT MANAGING DIRECTOR
John Winn
SENIOR RESEARCHER
Jasmin Fisher
RESEARCHER
Iqbal Mohomed
POST DOC RESEARCHER
Gordon Bell
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
George Robertson
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
Eric Horvitz
DISTINGUISHED SCI.-DEP.MG.DIR
Eric Chang
SR DIRECTOR, TECH STRATEGY
Ed Cutrell
RESEARCH MANAGER-TEM
Desney Tan
RESEARCH MGR/
PRINCIPAL RES.
Antonio Criminisi
SENIOR RESEARCHER
Andrew Phillips
HEAD OF BIO COMPUTATION GROUP
