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Carl Kesselman

  • Director, Center for Health Informatics, USC Information Sciences Institute
  • Research associate professor of computer science, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Office: (310) 448-9338
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Expertise Summary

Expert in high performance computing for health and medical informatics

Expertise

  • high performance computing
  • global health care data management
  • electronic health records
  • technology's role in healthcare reform
  • privacy and security concerns for online health records
  • healthcare data
  • secure and rapid information sharing
  • transfer of medical imaging and medical records
  • distributed computing
  • grid computing and applications

Additional Information

  • Author, The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, 2nd Edition (2003)
  • Member, IEEE
  • Fellow, British Computing Society
  • Finalist, World Technology Award for Information Technology Software (2003)
  • Named one of the InfoWorld Top 10 Innovators (2003)
  • Chosen as a global leader in the field of grid computing by Technology Review (2003)
  • Recipient, The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer (2003); British Computing Society Lady Ada Lovelace Medal (2002); R&D Magazine’s R&D 100 Award (2002); R&D Magazine’s Most Promising New Technology Award (best of the R&D 100) (2002); and the Global Information Infrastructure Award (in the next generation infrastructure category (1998)