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Simon Mercer

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

David H. Nguyen, Gabriela Marcu, Gillian R. Hayes, Khai N. Truong, James Scott, Marc Langheinrich, and Christof Roduner, Encountering SenseCam: Personal Recording Technologies in Everyday Life, in Proceedings of UbiComp 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2009
Victor Lempitsky, Michael Verhoek, Alison Noble, and Andrew Blake, Random Forest Classification for Automatic Delineation of Myocardium in Real-time 3D Echocardiography, in FIMH 2009 [best paper award], Springer Verlag, June 2009
Iain Buchan, John Winn, and Christopher Bishop, A Unified Modeling Approach to Data-Intensive Healthcare, in The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, Microsoft Research, 2009
Antonio Criminisi, Toby Sharp, and Andrew Blake, GeoS: Geodesic Image Segmentation, in Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, 2008
Oliver Stegle, Anitha Kannan, Richard Durbin, and John M. Winn, Accounting for Non-genetic Factors Improves the Power of eQTL Studies, in International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, 2008

Recent Computational Science Publications

Fisher J. and Harel D., On Statecharts for Biology, in Symbolic Systems Biology: Theory and Methods, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010
Luc Moreau, Ben Clifford, Juliana Freire, Yolanda Gil, Paul Groth, Joe Futrelle, Natalia Kwasnikowska, Simon Miles, Paolo Missier, Jim Myers, Yogesh Simmhan, Eric Stephan, and Jan Van den Bussche, The Open Provenance Model - Core Specification (v1.1), in Future Generation Computer Systems (Submitted), Elsevier , 2010
Yogesh Simmhan, Catharine van Ingen, Girish Subramanian, and Jie Li, Bridging the Gap between the Cloud and an eScience Application Platform, no. MSR-TR-2009-2021, 15 November 2009
Girish Subramanian and Yogesh Simmhan, Tools for Genome Haplotyping in the Windows Azure Cloud, in Microsoft Research eScience Workshop, Microsoft Research, 16 October 2009
Yogesh Simmhan, Roger Barga, Catharine van Ingen, Ed Lazowska, and Alex Szalay, Building the Trident Scientific Workflow Workbench for Data Management in the Cloud, in International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP), IEEE, 11 October 2009