Curriculum Vitae

Born: December 31, 1951

Civil status: Married, 2 children: Amin (1982) and Negin (1985)

Education:

Employment:

Experiences from Research, Industry and Lecturing:

• January 1998 - Present Linköping University Hospital

  IT manager
  Oncology Center, University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden.

  Major responsibilities have included:
  
  1. IT infrastructure Coordination in the center
  2. System and database management in the center.
  3. Development of a new regional cancer register for the south east region of Sweden.
  4. Development of a new R&D Lab for the south east region.


• November 1998 - Present Linköping University

  Senior Lecturer
  Division of Medical Informatics, Linköping University, Sweden.

  Major responsibilities have included:
  
  1. Lecturer in medical information systems.
  2. Decision support systems (DSS) in medicine.
  3. Data modeling and database systems.


• January 1997 - 1998 University Hospital, Linöping

  IT coordinator, Project & System manager
  Gastroenterology and Endocrinology Clinic
  Linköping University Hospital

  Major responsibilities have included:
  
  1. Coordinating IT infrastructure in the clinic.
  2. Project and system manager in a quality assurance project (DAKUS). The project developed an intranet based system using Java to follow up the quality of care in the clinic.


• November 1993 - 1998 Linköping University

  Research Associate, Lecturer, Supervisor, System manager
  Department of Medical Informatics
  Linköping University
  

  Major responsibilities have included:
  
  1. Course examiner and lecturer in medical information systems, decision support systems (DSSs) in medicine, and database systems.
  2. System manager in a DSS project. The project concerns development of a knowledge based system for diabetes care based on protocols and guidelines.
  3. System manager in a Telemedicine project. The project concerned integration of hypertext technique with a knowledge-based system including a www front end.
  4. System manager for a data driven Knowledge-based decision-support system in an EC-project called HELIOS.
  5. Development of inference and trigger mechanisms for a decision support system based on Arden Syntax for an object oriented client-server environment and database.
  6. Introduction and installation of the Arden Syntax compiler at TDS (Systematics Healthcare Services), San Jose, CA, USA.

• March 1986 - October 1990, September 1991 - November 1993 Linköping University

  Research Assistant
  Department of Medical Informatics
  Linköping University
  

  Major responsibilities have included:
  

1. Development of parser and compiler for Arden Syntax to translate Arden modules using C++ approach.
2. Development of a decision support system for artificial ventilation.
3. Development of an application (KAVE) for knowledge acquisition and knowledge base management.
4. Development of programs for migration of the knowledge bases:
   

1. from KEE representation scheme on Unisys Explorer to Nexpert Object on PC.
2. from Emycin representation scheme on DEC-20 to MUMPS on VAX.

• October 1990 - September 1991 ANZ Banking Group/Technobank

Senior Research & Development Analyst
ANZ Project Technobank
Melbourne, Australia

Major responsibilities have included:

1. Porting of the Customer Service Assistant (a knowledge based system) from UNIX on SUN to OS/2 on PS/2.
2. Designing and implementing a knowledge structure and rules for customer profiling. This structure used the object oriented concept to represent marketing segmentation knowledge. The representation scheme and rules in the inference engine was used to access the customer database for retrieving sufficient information.
3. Designing and developing a knowledge based system for customer life cycle marketing.
4. Designing and developing a functional model for enquiries and complaints management.

• September 1984 - June 1989 Linköping University

Assistant Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
Linköping University

Major responsibilities have included:

Lecturing in the following courses:

1. Computer Networks
2. Object-oriented programming concept.
3. Computer Hardware and Architecture
4. Programming in Pascal
5. Software Engineering

Research activity in:

• IT and Telemedicine
• AI and Knowledge-based Engineering
• Decision support system
• Database systems (relational, object oriented)
• Validation and evaluation of knowledge-based systems
• Management information system
• Assessment of technologies

Lecturing experiences:

• Medical Informatics
• Medical Information Systems
• DSS in Medicine
• Database Systems
• Computer Hardware and Architecture
• Computer Networks
• Programming in Pascal
• Software Engineering

Software experiences:

• Programming Languages: Lisp, Pascal, C, C++, Visual Basic, Java
• Network: HUB (an object oriented software bus); X.25; TCP/IP for Mac and PC, Nameserver, Sendmail and bootp program in UNIX.
• Knowledge-based system: Emycin, KEE, CxPERT and Nexpert Object.
• Databases: Object oriented Gemstone, Access, SQL server, 4D, Integra, Informix.
• Operative system: MS-DOS, OS/2, MS-Windows and UNIX, Tops-20, VAX-VMS.
• GUI: VB, Motif, OpenWindows, VUIT, UIMX and TeleUse, KEEwindows.
• Web: Visual Café

Hardware experiences:

• IBM Netfinity, HP, Compaq, PDP, DEC, Unisys Explorer, VAX, and SUN workstations
• PC and Macintosh

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