| About Me
I was born in N.Y. N.Y. in 1958. I received my B.A from Cornell University
in 1980. I began graduate
school in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania and moved with my advisor,
Alan Heeger, to Santa Barbara in 1982. After receiving my Ph.D. in Physics
from U.C.S.B., I joined IBM Research in San Jose as a Post
Doc. in 1984, and became a Research Staff Member in 1985.
Here's my short bio:
James H. Kaufman is manager of the Public Health Research
project in the Department of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden
Research Center.
He received his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and his PhD in Physics
from U.C.S.B. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a
Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). During his career at IBM Research Dr.
Kaufman has made contributions to several fields ranging from simulation
science to magnetic device technology. His scientific contributions include
work on pattern formation, conducting polymers, diamond like carbon,
superconductivity, experimental studies of the Moon Illusion, and contributions
to distributed computing, privacy protection, and grid middleware. His current
research interests include Public Health, Interoperable Health Information
Infrastructure, Electronic Health Records, and Epidemiological Modeling. His
group is currently working on open source tools for public health including the
Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM) project available through the
Eclipse Foundation http://www.eclipse.org/stem/downloads.php
My hobbies include martial arts (http://www.cwkungfu.com/home.html),
water color painting, breeding tropical angelfish, and close-up photography. I
enjoy playing with my kids, trying to understand nature, solving hard problems
with computers, and building and repairing things. |
