Staff
Agile Manufacturing/eHealth/Medical Information Systems Group
This research group seeks to develop advances in, and applications to, the next generation of Agile Manufacturing/eHealth/Medical Systems. Agility is the capability of placing appropriate information into the decision-makers' hands at all levels of the enterprise. In so doing, the manufacturing/business/medical operation can respond in an optimum manner and in a timely fashion to even unexpected events. Key to this mode of operation is the Performance Support System which provides the mechanism to convert the plentitude of data into more practical information and, at the highest levels, into knowledge.
Staff
NA=Dr.Norm Archer (McMaster E-commerce Research Centre (MeRC))
RC=Dr.Bob Chapman (University of Guelph, now retired)
MVK=Dr.Markad Kamath (McMaster University Medical Centre) -- Co-Director
WFSP=Dr.Skip Poehlman (McMaster University) -- Co-Director
Current Graduate Students
Mr.Mehrdad Alemzadeh -- M.Sc.(CS/CAS) WFSP&MVK/Thesis Topic:
Automated algorithms in support of radiologist analysis of diagnostic images (tentative);
individual (MVK&WFSP) NSERC Research Grants.
Mr.Mohammad Alam -- Ph.D.(CS/CAS) WFSP/Thesis Topic:
ICU 24-hour heart rate variability monitoring, analysis and information system (tentative);
support: individual (WFSP) NSERC Research Grant.
Mr.Fang Cao -- Ph.D. (CS/CAS) NA&WFSP/Thesis Topic:
Enabling Interoperability between Health Record Systems Within a Software Agent Based Framework;
support: individual (NA) NSERC Research Grant.
Ms.Jie Wu -- Ph.D.(CS/CAS) WFSP&MVK/Thesis Topic:
An Automated Human Organ Segmentation Technique in abdominal Magnetic Resonance Images;
support: individual (MVK) NSERC Research Grant.
Past Graduate Students
Dr.MohammadReza Heydarian Firouz Abadi, M.Sc.,B.Eng. 2004-2009
-- Ph.D.(CS/CAS) WFSP&MVK/Thesis: "An Automatic Method for the Characterization of Lung Airways from CT Images";
support: government scholarship and individual (WFSP & MVK) NSERC Research Grants
Mr.Chris Lambacher 2001-2005 -- M.Sc.(CS/CAS)
WFSP&M.Kamath(MUMC)/Thesis: "A Component-Based Architecture for Medical Image Processing";
support: individual (MVK) NSERC Research Grant.
Mr.Jason Jiang 1995-1996 -- M.Eng. (CE/ECE)
WFSP/Thesis: "An Object-Oriented Generic Simulator for an Agile Manufacturing
Information System", 185p. (August,1996) Support: General Motors of Canada and NSERC
Research Grants. Now at Schneider Transport Inc, Green Bay, Wisconsin, as a software engineer
Mr.John McCormack 1997-1999 -- M.Sc. programme,
Guelph Computer Science GRC:/Thesis: "Agile Simulation with Unix-based Visual Programming Tools"
Support: General Motors of Canada and NSERC Research Grants. Continuing at University of Guelph,
on technical staff, as a systems specilaist.
Mr.Jun Jia Jan.1998-Jun.2002 -- M.Sc.,CS/DCSS)
WFSP/Thesis: "A Distributed Aglet-Based Mobile Agent System Framework for Multiple
Intelligent Agent Systems", 104p.(June,2002). Now at General Electric HQ, Milwaulki,
Wisonsin, USA, as a software engineer in the Medical Systems Division.
Mr.Nail Elden Sep.1998-Jan.2003 -- M.Sc.(CS/CAS)
WFSP/Thesis: "An Approach for Managing Database over the Web As a Distributed Process",
115p. (Jan.,2003) Continuing at 701.com, Toronto, ON, as Director of Technical Services.
Ms.Wenjie Quan Jan.2000-May,2003 -- M.Sc.(CS/CAS)
WFSP/Thesis: "Change Management via JAVA-accessed Web-centric Database", 105p. (May,2003).
Now a mother and housewife in Toronto, Ontario.
Dr.O.Storoshchuk Sep.1992-Aug,2003 -- Ph.D.,(EE/ECE)
WFSP/Thesis:"Model-based Synchronization of Monitoring and Control", 365p. (Aug.,2003).
Support: General Motors Corporation and individual(WFSP) NSERC Research Grants, Continuing at GMC,
Warren, Michigan, USA as a control engineer.
Dr.D.Fischer Sep.1994-Aug,2004 -- Ph.D.,(EE/ECE)
WFSP/Thesis:"Artificial Intelligence Techniques Applied to Fault Detection Systems", 211p. (Apr.,2004)
Support: Individual(WFSP & Barna Szabados(ECE)) NSERC Research Grants, Continuing at Kinetrics Ltd.,
Toronto, Ontario, Applications Engineer.