john alan mcdonald: academic cv

2004-08-24
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John Alan McDonald

Professional experience

2004--date Principal Software Engineer, Quantigraphics, Inc., Seattle WA: Developing and evaluating methods for automatic segmentation of ultrasound and magnetic resonance images of the heart.
1997--2004 Research Scientist, School of Medicine, U. of Washington: Developing software for building 3d and 4d models of heart anatomy from ultrasound images and other data.
1995--1997 Co-Founder, Second Language Software: Developing educational software for language learning and other aspects of Pacific Rim cultures.
1988--1997 Dept. of Statistics, U. of Washington; Research Associate Professor
1988--1997 Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UW; Adjunct Research Associate Professor
1985--1988 Dept. of Statistics, UW; Research Assistant Professor
1985--1986 Applied Physics Laboratory, UW; Research Scientist
1983--1985 Depts of Computer Science and Statistics, Stanford; Research Associate
1982--1983 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow
1975--1976 Anatomy Dept., Harvard Medical School; Research Assistant (also at Anthropology Dept., Harvard; and the National Museum of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.)
1975 Theoretical Nuclear Physics Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Intern

Education

1977--1982 Stanford; Ph.D., Statistics (awarded June 1982). Thesis: Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis. Advisor: Werner Stuetzle.
1976--1977 U. of Chicago; Ph.D. student in Applied Mathematics program
1971--1975 Princeton; A.B., Physics. Senior Thesis: Scattering Representations of Weyl Algebras
and the Infrared Paradox. Advisor: Jurg Frolich.

Publications

2004 abstract pdf	John Alan McDonald, and Florence H. Sheehan. Ventriculogram segmentation using boosted decision trees. SPIE/Medical Imaging 2004, Proceedings.
2002	Florence H. Sheehan, Edward L. Bolson, John Alan McDonald, M. Reisman, K.-C. Koch, and A. Poppas. Method for three dimensional data registration from disparate imaging modalities in the NOGA myocardial viability trial. IEEE Trans Med Imag 21: p 1264-1270.
2002	M. Hubka, Edward L. Bolson, John Alan McDonald, R.W. Martin, B. Munt, and Florence H. Sheehan, Three-dimensional echocardiographic measurement of left and right ventricular mass and volume: In vitro validation. Intl J Card Imag 18 p 111-118.
2001	S. Wong, Rich Johnson, John Alan McDonald, and Florence H. Sheehan, Rapid and accurate left ventricular surface generation from three-dimensional echocardiography by a catalog-based method (abstr.). J Am Soc Echocardiogr 14 p 486.
2001	S. Wong, R. French, Edward L. Bolson, John Alan McDonald, M. Legget, and Florence H. Sheehan, Morphology of the rheumatic regurgitant mitral valve by three-dimensional echocardiography. Am Heart J 142 p 897-907.
2000	S. Wong, M. Hubka, John Alan McDonald, Edward L. Bolson, M. Legget, and Florence H. Sheehan, Quantification of left ventricular shape using three-dimensional echocardiography (abstr.). Intl Conference on Heart Failure Vancouver, BC, Canada Jul 1-3 2000.
2000	M. Hubka, B. Hoppe, John Alan McDonald, Edward L. Bolson, K. Coady, Florence H. Sheehan, Shape analysis of the LV surface using three-dimensional echocardiography: Validation and application to LV remodeling following myocardial infarction (abstr.). J Investigat Med
2000	Florence H. Sheehan, John Alan McDonald, and Edward L. Bolson, Anatomically accurate three dimensional reconstruction of the heart. 11th Intl Conf Mechanics Med Biol Maui, HI, April 2-5, 2000.
2000	B. Hoppe, M. Hubka, John Alan McDonald, Edward L. Bolson, K. Coady, Florence H. Sheehan, Three dimensional echocardiographic quantification of left ventricular remodeling after acute myocardial infarction (abstr.). J Am Coll Cardiol/ 35 p 460-A.
2000 pdf abstract	M. Hubka, S.P. Wong, John Alan McDonald, Edward L. Bolson, K. Coady, Florence H. Sheehan, Shape Analysis Of Left Ventricular Remodeling Following Myocardial Infarction Using Three-Dimensional Echocardiography. Computers in Cardiology 2000 27:127-130
2000 pdf abstract	Florence H. Sheehan, Edward L. Bolson, John Alan McDonald, Applications Of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Beyond The Left Ventricle: Other Chambers And Structural Detail. Computers in Cardiology 2000 27:119-122
1999 abstract	Sarah Ratanasopa, Edward L. Bolson, Florence H. Sheehan, John Alan McDonald, and Gerald Bashein, Performance of a Fourier-based program for three-dimensional reconstruction of the mitral annulus on application to sparse, noisy data. The International Journal of Cardiac Imaging 15 (4):301-307 August 1999
1998	Florence H. Sheehan, Edward L. Bolson, Martin RW, Bashein G, John Alan McDonald, Quantitative three dimensional echocardiography: Methodology, validation, and clinical applications. 1st Intl Conf Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI98), Cambridge, MA. October 11-13, 1998
1998 pdf	Florence H. Sheehan, Edward L. Bolson, John Alan McDonald, G Bashein, ML Zeppa, RW Martin, Three dimensional echocardiography system for quantitative analysis of the left ventricle. Computers in Cardiology 1998 , p 649-652, Cambridge, MA. October 11-13, 1998
1998 pdf	Malcolm E. Legget, Daniel F. Leotta, Edward L. Bolson, John Alan McDonald, Roy W. Martin, Xiang-Ning Li, Catherine M. Otto, and Florence H. Sheehan. System for quantitative three-dimensional echocardiography of the left ventricle based on a magnetic-field position and orientation sensing system. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 45 (4):494-504, April 1998.
1998 abstract PubMed	Malcolm E. Legget, Gerard Bashein, John Alan McDonald, Brad I. Munt, Roy W. Martin, Catherine M. Otto. Three-dimensional measurement of the mitral annulus by multiplane transesophageal echocardiography: in vitro validation and in vivo demonstration. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 11 (2):188-200, Feb. 1998.
1997 pdf	Chisheng Huang, John Alan McDonald, and Werner Stuetzle, Variable Resolution Bivariate Plots Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 6(4):383-396.
1997 pdf	K. Pulli, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, John Alan McDonald, L. Shapiro and Werner Stuetzle, Robust Meshes from Multiple Range Maps Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advances in 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling Ottawa, May 12-15.
1997 pdf	K. Pulli, M. Cohen, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, John Alan McDonald, L. Shapiro, and Werner Stuetzle. Surface Modeling and Display from Range and Color Data International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing,ICIAP '97, Florence, Italy. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1310, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1997, pp. 385-397.)
1996	Malcolm E. Legget, Florence H. Sheehan, John Alan McDonald, Hubert Jin, Dan Leotta, Edward L. Bolson, Gerald Bashein, X-N. Li, C.M. Otto, and R. Martin. Anatomically accurate three dimensional (3D) reconstruction of the left ventricle (LV)(abstr.). Circulation 94 (Suppl.I) p. I-211.
1995	Mary Austin-Seymour, Ira Kalet, John Alan McDonald, Sharon Kromhout-Schiro, Jon Jacky, Sharon Hummel, and Jonathan Unger. Three dimensional planning target volumes: a model and software tool. Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys., 33 (5): 1073-1080
1995 pdf	Edward L. Bolson, Florence H. Sheehan, Legget ME, Jin H, John Alan McDonald, Sampson PD, Martin RW, Gerald Bashein, Otto CM. Applying the Centersurface model to 3-D reconstructions of the left ventricle for regional function analysis. Computers in Cardiology. Long Beach, CA: IEEE Computer Society, pp. 63-66, 1995
1995	ME Legget, RW Martin, Florence H. Sheehan, G Bashein, Edward L. Bolson, XN Li, John Alan McDonald, Ram Hatangadi, CM Otto. Three dimensional reconstruction using a new dual axis multiplane transesophogeal echo probe: calculation of left ventricular volume. American College of Cardiology 44th Scientific Session: Key Contributions (J Am Coll. Cardiol 25: 17A, 1995)
1995	ME Legget, G Bashein, John Alan McDonald, RW Martin, Florence H. Sheehan, XN Li, Edward L. Bolson, F DeRook, CM Otto. A new method of 3-dimensional reconstruction and quantitation of the mitral valve annulus, valve, and left ventricle: in vitro validation. 6th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography (J Am Soc Echocardiogr 8:343, 1995)
1995	ME Legget, RW Martin, John Alan McDonald, DT Leotta, G Bashein, Florence H. Sheehan, XN Li, Edward L. Bolson, CM Otto. Three dimensional echocardiography of the left ventricle using a magnetic location system: in vitro validation of volume and mass, 6th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography (J Am Soc Echocardiogr 8:386, 1995)
1995 pdf	Hubert Jin, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, John Alan McDonald, Kari Pulli, and Werner Stuetzle. Surface reconstruction from misregistered data Proc. of SPIE vol. 2573, pp. 324-8, 1995.
1995 pdf	Martin R W;Legget M; John Alan McDonald; Li X N;Leotta D; Edward L. Bolson; Bashein G;Otto C M; Florence H. Sheehan. Stereographic viewing of 3D ultrasound images: a novelty or a tool? Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2: 1431-1434, 7 Nov 1995
1994 pdf	Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, Mark Halstead, Hubert Jin, John Alan McDonald, Jean Schweitzer, and Werner Stuetzle, Piecewise Smooth Surface Reconstruction Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH Annual Conference Proceedings 1994.
1993 pdf	Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, John Alan McDonald, and Werner Stuetzle, Mesh Optimization, Computer Graphics 27 (4), (Proceedings SIGGRAPH'93).
1992	Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, John Alan McDonald, and Werner Stuetzle, Fitting of Surfaces to Scattered Data Curves and Surfaces in Computer Vision and Graphics 3, SPIE Proceedings 1830:212-220.
1992 pdf	Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, John Alan McDonald, and Werner Stuetzle, Surface Reconstruction from Unorganized Points Computer Graphics 26 (4), (Proceedings SIGGRAPH'92).
1991 pdf	Andreas Buja, John Alan McDonald, John Michalak, and Werner Stuetzle, Interactive Data Visualization using Focusing and Linking Visualization'91, Oct. 21-25, 1991, San Diego, CA.
1991	Andreas Buja, John Alan McDonald, John Michalak, Werner Stuetzle and Steve Willis. Visualization of Complex Data Visualization'91, (Video Proceedings) Oct. 21-25, 1991, San Diego, CA.
1991	Determining Surface Topology from Unorganized Data, with Hugues Hoppe, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, and Werner Stuetzle, at the Second SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Nov. 4-8, 1991, Phoenix, AZ.
1991	Fitting a Surface of Known Topology to Unorganized Data, with Werner Stuetzle, Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, and Hugues Hoppe, at the Second SIAM Conference on Geometric Design, Nov. 4-8, 1991, Phoenix, AZ.
1991 pdf	John Alan McDonald and Werner Stuetzle, Data Visualization using Focusing and Linking, workshop on Size and Complexity in Information Worlds at CHI'91, April 28-29, 1991, New Orleans, LA.
1991	Tony DeRose, Tom Duchamp, Hugues Hoppe, John Alan McDonald, and Werner Stuetzle, Reconstructing Two-dimensional Manifolds from Scattered Data: Motivation and Background, UW Statistics Tech Rept 215.
1990 pdf	John Alan McDonald, Andreas Buja, and Werner Stuetzle, Painting multiple views of complex objects SIGPLAN Notices 25 (10): 245-257 (OOPSLA/ECOOP'90 Proceedings).
1990 pdf	John Alan McDonald, Geometric Abstractions in Scientific Computing at Computer Science and Statistics, the 22th Symposium on the Interface, East Lansing, Michigan, May.
1990 pdf	John Alan McDonald, John Michalak, Finbarr O'Sullivan, Werner Stuetzle, David Haynor, and Andreas Buja, Graphical tools for quantitative radiology, with , IEEE 1990 Nuclear Science Symposium: Medical Imaging Conference, October 1990.
1990 pdf	Andreas Buja, John Alan McDonald, and Werner Stuetzle, Painting multiple views: an interactive technique for "feeling'' the shape of complex, multidimensional data, with A, Invited Poster Session, CHI'90.
1989 pdf	John Alan McDonald, Object-oriented programming for linear algebra, SIGPLAN Notices 24 (10): 175-184 (OOPSLA'89 Proceedings).
1989 pdf	John Alan McDonald and Jan Pedersen. A case study of statistical computing in a Lisp environment: geometric abstractions for optimization, graph layout, browsing and retrieval in large databases Proc. of the 1989 Joint Statistical Meetings, Stat. Comp. Sect.
1988 pdf	An outline of Arizona: a portable Lisp-based system for data analysis, at Computer Science and Statistics, the 20th Symposium on the Interface, Reston, Va., April.
1988	Analysis of fish abundance in the Bering sea: a case study in the use of graphical methods, with Werner Stuetzle, Proc. of the 1988 Joint Statistical Meetings, Stat. Comp. Sect.
1988	Andreas Buja, Daniel Asimov, Catherine Hurley, and John Alan McDonald, Elements of a viewing pipeline for data analysis, in Dynamic Graphics for Statistics, Cleveland, W.S., and McGill, M.E., eds. (1988) Wadsworth, Pacific Grove, Ca.
1987 pdf	John Alan McDonald and Jan Pedersen. Computing Environments for Data Analysis, Part III: Programming Environments, SIAM J. Scientific and Statistical Computing 9 (2): 380-400.
1987 pdf	John Alan McDonald, Object-oriented design in numerical linear algebra, at Computer Science and Statistics, the 19th Symposium on the Interface, Philadelphia, March.
1987 pdf	John Alan McDonald, Object-oriented design in numerical linear algebra, Tech Rep, UW Dept. of Statistics
1986	John Alan McDonald and Art Owen, Smoothing with Split Linear Fits Technometrics 28 (3): 195-208.
1986	Periodic Smoothing of Time Series, John Alan McDonald SIAM J. Scientific and Statistical Computing 7 (2): 665-688.
1986 pdf	John Alan McDonald, Antelope: data analysis with object-oriented programming and constraints, Proc. of the 1986 Joint Statistical Meetings, Stat. Comp. Sect.
1985	Object oriented programming for graphics and database management Graphical Components for Statistical Workstations, National Computer Graphics Association Annual Meeting, April.
1985	Integrated Programming Environments at the session on Future Statistical Languages at Computer Science and Statistics: Seventeenth Symposium on the Interface, March, 1985.
1985 pdf	John Alan McDonald and Jan Pedersen. Computing Environments for Data Analysis, Part II. Hardware, SIAM J. Scientific and Statistical Computing 6 (4): 1013-1021.
1985 pdf	John Alan McDonald and Jan Pedersen. Computing Environments for Data Analysis, Part I. Introduction, SIAM J. Scientific and Statistical Computing 6(4):1004-1012.
1984	John Alan McDonald, Graphical Methods for Higher Dimensional Data Analysis, at the AAAS Meeting, New York, May, 1984.
1984	John Alan McDonald and Jan Pedersen. Computing Environments for Data Analysis at ASA-IASC-SIAM Conference Frontiers in Computational Statistics in October.
1983 pdf	John Alan McDonald and Jan Pedersen. Graphics Workstations for Data Analysis, Proceedings of 1983 Joint Statistical Meetings, Statistical Computing Section.
1983	John Alan McDonald, Interactive Real Time Graphics for Multivariate Data Analysis, at Computer Science and Statistics: Fifteenth Symposium on the Interface, Houston, Texas, March, 1983.
1982	John Alan McDonald, Jerome H. Friedman, and Werner Stuetzle, Real Time Graphical Techniques for Analyzing Multivariate Data, Proc. of the DOE Statistical Symposium, Idaho Falls, Oct. 13-15.
1982	John Alan McDonald, Jerome H. Friedman, and Werner Stuetzle, An Introduction to Real Time Graphical Techniques for Analyzing Multivariate Data, Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference and Exposition of the National Computer Graphics Association, Inc., Volume I. (also in Dynamic Graphics for Statistics, Cleveland, W.S., and McGill, M.E., eds. (1988) Wadsworth, Pacific Grove, Ca.)
1982 pdf	John Alan McDonald, Interactive Graphics for Data Analysis, (Ph.D. Thesis), Available as Tech. Report Orion\# 11, Dept. of Statistics, Stanford.. Also in Dynamic Graphics for Statistics, Cleveland, W.S., and McGill, M.E., eds. (1988) Wadsworth, Pacific Grove, Ca.
1982	John Alan McDonald, Projection Pursuit Regression with the Orion I Workstation, a 20 minute, 16mm color sound film, which demonstrates parts of my thesis work. It is available for loan from: Jerome H. Friedman, Computation Research Group, Bin \# 88, SLAC, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, Ca. 94305
1982	John Alan McDonald, Exploring Data with the Orion I Workstation, a 25 minute, 16mm sound film, which demonstrates parts of my thesis work. It is available for loan from: Jerome H. Friedman, Computation Research Group, Bin \# 88, SLAC, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, Ca. 94305
1982	John Alan McDonald, Real Time Graphical Techniques for Analyzing Multivariate Data, at the DOE Statistical Symposium, Idaho Falls, Idaho, November, 1982.
1982	John Alan McDonald, Real Time Graphical Techniques for Analyzing Multivariate Data, at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio, August, 1982.
1982	John Alan McDonald, Exploring Data with the Orion I workstation at the Stanford Workshop on Advanced Statistical Graphics, Stanford, Ca., July, 1982.
1982	John Alan McDonald, Projection Pursuit Regression with the Orion I workstation at the Stanford Workshop on Advanced Statistical Graphics, Stanford, Ca., July, 1982.
1982	John Alan McDonald, An Introduction to Real Time Graphical Techniques for Analyzing Multivariate Data, at Third Annual Conference and Exposition of the National Computer Graphics Association, Anaheim, California, June, 1982.
1977	John Alan McDonald, Dynamics of Nuclear Fluid III: General Considerations on the Kinetic Theory of Quantum Fluids John Alan McDonald and C.Y.Wong, Physical Review C 16(3):1196-1215.
1975	John Alan McDonald, Scattering Representations of Weyl Algebras and the Infrared Paradox Senior Thesis, Physics Dept., Princeton. Advisor: Jurg Frolich.
1974	John Alan McDonald, Causal Structure of Non-time Orientable Spacetimes Junior Paper, Physics Dept., Princeton. Advisor: Robert Geroch.
1973	John Alan McDonald, The Cauchy Initial Value Problem in General Relativity. Junior Paper, Physics Dept., Princeton. Advisor: John A. Wheeler.

Patents

2003

Segmentation of ventriculograms using boosted decision trees
Inventors: John Alan McDonald; Florence H. Sheehan
Filed July 2003

2002

Automated delineation of heart borders and surfaces from images
Inventors: Richard K. Johnson; John Alan McDonald; Florence H. Sheehan.
Filed August 2002

1999

Reconstruction of three-dimensional objects using labeled piecewise smooth subdivision surfaces
Inventors: John Alan McDonald; Florence H. Sheehan; Edward L. Bolson; Malcolm E. Legget.
US Patent 5,889,524

Grants and Awards

1994-1997 Curve and Surface Reconstruction, from NSF, approx. $300k with A. D. DeRose, Tom Duchamp, and W. Stuetzle
1992-1995 Data Visualization using Focusing and Linking, from NSF, approx. $200k, with W. Stuetzle
1991-1994 Curve and Surface Reconstruction, from NSF, $350k, with A. D. DeRose and W. Stuetzle
1988-1991 Computing environments, interactive graphics, and non-parametric methods for data analysis, from DOE, $880,665, with F. O'Sullivan and W. Stuetzle
1986-1988 ONR Young Investigator Award, $150,000.
1982-1983 NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, $26,000.

Additional professional activities

1998--2000 Consulting for Quantigraphics, Inc.

1997--1998 Consulting for ATL, Inc.

1994--1997 UW Language Learning Center, research and development (with Second Language Software, Inc.) of computer-aided foreign language instructional software for Asian languages.

1994--1997 UW Depts of Cardiology, Radiology, and Bioengineering, research on 3d echocardiography with Florence H. Sheehan (Cardiology).

1985--1994 UW Remote Sensing Lab, Geological Sciences, research on interactive visualization of multi-spectral image data with John Adams.

1991--1994 UW Radiation Oncology, research on radiotherapy treatment planning with Ira Kalet and Mary Austin-Seymour

1985-1992 AT&T Bell Laboratories, research consultant with John Chambers.

1984-1994 Xerox PARC, research consultant with Jan Pedersen.

1985-1997 referee proposals for NSF, NSERC, etc.

1982-1997 referee papers for ASA, SIAM, ACM, Software Practice and Experience, etc.

1990-1991 Program Committee for Interface'91 conference

1985-1988 Associate Editor, SIAM J. Scientific and Stat. Computing.

1986-1988 Consultant for Bell Communication Research.

1980-1982 Consultant for US Geological Survey.

Graduate Students

1985-1987 Ph.D. committee for Catherine Hurley. Degree received Fall 1987. Thesis title: The Data Viewer: A program for graphical data analysis.

1985-1988 Ph.D. committee for Jeff Banfield. Degree spring 1988. Thesis topic: Clustering and Image Processing.

1985-1988 Ph.D. committee for Pat Burns. Degree received in 1988. Thesis topic: Resistant Fits of Two-way tables.

1985-1990 Ph.D. committee for John Michalak. Thesis topic: Interactive graphics for hierarchical structures.

198x Ph.D. committee for Charlie Geyer. Thesis topic: Maximum Likelihood for exponential families.

1989-1994 Ph.D. committee for Michael Sannella (Computer Science and Engineering). Thesis topic: Software engineering aspects of interactive data visualization.

1989-1995 Ph.D. committee for Steve McKinney (Biostatistics) Thesis topic: graphical methods for discrete data.

198x Ph.D. committee for Andrezej Kozinski (Biostatistics)

1990-1996 Ph.D. committee for Georges Winkenbach (Computer Science and Engineering)

1990 Advisor for Thomas Bill and Bertil Lundell, visiting students from the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. Masters thesis: Using the simplex method for solving layout constraints in scientific diagrams.

1989-1990 Ph. D. Advisor to Danika Lew.

1991 CSE Qualifying exam project supervisor for Michael Vanhilst.

1990-1994 Ph.D. committee for Hugues Hoppe (CSE).

1995-1997 Ph.D. committee for Xiang-Ning Li. M.D. (Bioengineering). Thesis topic: Volume interpolation and 3d edge detection in echocardiography.

1993-1996 Co-Advisor, Ph.D. committee for Hubert Jin (Statistics). Thesis topic: Applications of Surface Reconstruction.

Teaching

Fall 85, Winter 86 Informal Reading Course from Abelson and Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, attended by about 15 students, staff and faculty from Statistics, APL, and the Remote Sensing Lab.

Spring 86, Fall 86, Winter 87 Seminar series in topics related to applications of modern programming environments to scientific problems, attended by about 15 students, staff and faculty from Statistics, APL, Remote Sensing Lab, Electrical Engineering and Boeing.

Fall 87 Special topics course in Statistics on solving quantitative programming problems using Common Lisp and Lisp Machines, attended by about 20 students, staff and faculty from Statistics, APL, Remote Sensing Lab, Computer Science, Neurology, and Radiology.

Fall 92, Winter 93, Spring 93 Seminar series on programming language aspects of scientific computing systems, attended by students from Statistics, Biostatistics, and CSE, faculty from Statistics and CSE, and employees of Statsci, Inc.

UW Committees and Other Duties

1985-1997 Statistics Computing Cost Center Committee

1990-1994 Chair, Statistics Dept. Computing Cost Center Committee

1985-1995 Statistics/Biostatistics Second Year Applied Exam Grading

Spring 1989 Chair, Math Sciences Computing Committee.

Spring 1989 Chair Statistics Computing Committee.

1988 Search Committee for Assistant Professor.

1987 Theoretical Statistics Ph.D. Qualifying Exam committee in Fall 1987.

1985-1997 Systems Administration, Hardware Support, for Symbolics Lisp Machines, Sparcstations, SGI workstations, DEC Alphas, Macintosh, Windows 3.1/95.

Languages

Standard Chinese, 4 years
Japanese, 2 quarters
French, 2 years high school, 1 year college
Latin 3 years high school