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Ben Y. Reis, PhD

Research Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School


CURRENT RESEARCH

Biosurveillance
Biosurveillance Health Infrastructure Systems
Geographical Mapping of Spread of Disease
Biosensors for Public Health Monitoring

Functional Genomics
Reverse Engineering Biological Pathways
Dynamics of Gene Expression
Clustering and Classification

Clinical Informatics
Medical Data Mining
Automated Decision Support

TRAINING

Harvard Medical School, 2000
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Informatics

University of Cambridge, 1996-99
PhD, Computer Science, with Music and Cognitive Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995-96
Masters of Engineering, Computer Science and BioElectrical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991-95
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Premedical Studies, Music Minor.
RESEARCH HISTORY

Harvard Medical School, 2000-Present
Children's Hospital Informatics Program. Research in genomics, genetic expression, clinical informatics and public health surveillance systems.

Cambridge University Adenbrookes Hospital Vision Research Department, 1998
Development of a system for display and analysis of electro-ocular signals recorded in a clinical setting.

Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, 1996-1999
Research in agent-based systems for discrete time-series modeling and prediction. Apllied to cognitive modelling of ethnomusicological learning Funded by British Marshall Scholarship and Cambridge Overseas Trust.

Bell Laboratories Biological Computation Group, 1995
Implementation and study of a conductance-based computer model of the occulomotor integrator neural circuit in the goldfish brain responsible for controlling eye position.

MIT Media Laboratory Music Research Group, 1994
Development of software system for performing signal processing analyses on acoustic signals of human voice.

Bell Laboratories Speech Research Group, 1994
Computer speech synthesis research: Study of turbulence noise sources in a custom designed motorized physical model of the human vocal system.

Bell Laboratories Satellite Research Department, 1993
Design and development of a monitor and control system for remote interaction with a complete communications satellite earth station.

MIT Media Laboratory Color Research Group, 1992
Development of an experimental platform for research in color perception, including user interaction, display and data recording.

COLLABORATIONS

Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT
Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School
PUBLICATIONS

Journals

1. Reis BY, Butte AJ, Kohane IS. Extracting knowledge from dynamics in gene expression. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2001 Feb;34(1):15-27.

2. Seung HS, Lee DD, Reis BY, Tank DW. The autapse: a simple illustration of short-term analog memory storage by tuned synaptic feedback. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 2000 Sep-Oct;9(2):171-85.

3. Seung HS, Lee DD, Reis BY, Tank DW. Stability of the memory of eye position in a recurrent network of conductance-based model neurons. Neuron. 2000 Apr;26(1):259-71.

4. Lee, DD, Reis, BY, Seung, HS, Tank, DW. Nonlinear network models of the occulomotor integrator. Computational Neuroscience 5, 371. 1997

Collections

5. Reis, BY, Butte, AJ, and Kohane, IS. Approaching causality: Discovering time-lag correlations in genetic expression data with static and dynamic relevance networks. In Miyano, S, Shamir, R, Takagi, T. Currents in computational molecular biology, Universal Academy Press, Tokyo, Japan, 2000.

6. Reis, BY. A multi-agent system for on-line modeling, parsing and prediction of discrete time series data. In Intelligent Image Processing, Data Analysis and Information Retrieval, pp. 164-169. IOS Press Holland, 1999.

Proceedings

7. Reis, BY, Butte, AJ, and Kohane, IS. Dynamics-based functional genomics clustering using mutual information relevance networks, In Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Honolulu, HI, 2000.

8. Reis, BY. Simulated music learning: On-line perceptually guided pattern induction of context models for multiple horizon prediction of melodies. In, Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Musical Creativity, pages 58-63. The Society for the study of artificial intelligence and simulation of behavior, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1999.

9. Coker, CH, Krane, MH, Reis, BY, Kubli, RA. Search for unexplored effects in speech production, In Fourth International Congress on Speech and Language Processing (ICSLP96), 1996.

10. Reis, BY, Coker C, Kubli, RA. Characterization of glottal turbulence noise source using a mechanical model, Annual meeting of the acoustical society of America, Austin, TX. 1994.

Technical Reports

11. Reis, BY. Simulating music learning with autonomous listening agents: Entropy, ambiguity and context. Technical Report, 472, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, September 1999.

In Books

12. Rowe, R. Machine Musicianship, pp. 183-187, MIT Press, 2001.