About me
Manager, Public Health Research
Research lab: Almaden Research Center
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 and a member of the IBM Academy.
The Public Health Research Project is part of a larger IBM Research Effort in Healthcare and included colleagues in Haifa, Watson, Software Group, and GBS. We are focused on creating open source tools, technologies, and standards for electronic health records, public health reporting, and analytics.
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 Electronic Health Records, Disease Surveillance, and the SpatioTemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM). His group is currently working with the Eclipse Foundation leading the contribution of the stem project http://www.eclipse.org/stem/.
His hobbies include martial arts (http://www.kokarate.com/), water color painting, breeding tropical angelfish (http://sites.google.com/site/angelfishphotography/), and close-up photography. He enjoys playing with my kids, trying to understand nature, solving hard problems with computers, and building and repairing things.
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Last updated 5 Nov 2009