Biographical sketches of authors

Raimond L. Winslow   Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (electronic mail: rwinslow@bme.jhu.edu). Dr. Winslow is a professor of biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science, the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He is Associate Director of the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, and is codirector of the Center for Computational Medicine and Biology. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1985. His research interests are in computational biology and bioinformatics as applied to the study of the cardiovascular system.

David F. Scollan   Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (electronic mail: dscollan@bme.jhu.edu). Mr. Scollan received B.A. and B.S. degrees in aerospace engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1990. He received a Master of Engineering Physics degree from the University of Virginia in 1992. He is presently enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, completing his medical training and pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the Department of Biomedical Engineering Center for Computational Medicine and Biology.

Joseph L. Greenstein   Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (electronic mail: jgreenst@bme.jhu.edu). Mr. Greenstein is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Center for Computational Medicine and Biology within the Department of Biomedical Engineering, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his B.S. degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University in 1995. His current work is directed at understanding the underlying cellular bases for the phenotypic changes observed in patients with congestive heart failure, via development of highly integrative, experimentally based, biophysically detailed models of cardiac myocytes. His primary focus is on the interaction between intracellular and membrane calcium transport processes and the morphological properties of the cardiac action potential.

Christina K. Yung   Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (electronic mail: cyung@bme.jhu.edu). Ms. Yung is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Johns Hopkins University. She received her B.Sc.E. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and her M.S.E. degree in biomedical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. Her research at the Center for Computational Medicine and Biology focuses on the development of biophysically and anatomically detailed computational models for studying electrophysiology in the whole heart. These models, made tractable by efficient numerical methods and high-performance parallel computing, are used for relating changes in anatomical structures and gene expression levels to the phenotype of heart failure.

William Baumgartner, Jr.   Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 (electronic mail: wbaumgar@bme.jhu.edu). Mr. Baumgartner graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a B.S. degree in biomedical engineering in 1996. He spent the following three years in a research laboratory at the University of Indiana Medical School studying the microcirculatory system of the lung. Currently, he is pursuing a master's degree in the Center for Computational Medicine and Biology within the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His master's thesis will focus on the organization of myocardial fibers within the heart and the creation of a generalized cardiac knowledge base.

Gyan Bhanot   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: gyan@us.ibm.com). Dr. Bhanot received his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from Cornell University in 1979. His early interests were in computer simulations and modeling in particle physics and statistical mechanics. He did postdoctoral work at Brookhaven National Lab, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and ITP, Santa Barbara. He was an associate professor of physics at Florida State University until 1989 when he moved to Thinking Machines Corporation. He came to IBM Research in 1994 and is currently a research staff member at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He is in the Computational Biology Center at IBM and his current interests are in modeling biological systems and parallel algorithms and applications.

Donna L. Gresh   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: gresh@us.ibm.com). Dr. Gresh is a research staff member in the Visual Analysis group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In the eleven years she has been at IBM Research she has worked in the areas of data visualization, data analysis, and graphics. She received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1990, an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1985, and a B.S. degree in engineering from Swarthmore College in 1983.

Bernice E. Rogowitz   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (electronic mail: rogowtz@us.ibm.com). Dr. Rogowitz is an experimental psychologist specializing in human vision and its applications in imaging systems. She received her Ph.D. degree at Columbia University, and completed a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Harvard University. She currently manages the Visual Analysis group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. The goal of this group is to develop perceptually based, intelligent, interactive systems for manipulating, synthesizing, and understanding data. This year, Dr. Rogowitz was elected a Fellow of the International Imaging Society (IS&T) for contributions in human vision and electronic imaging.