Kal Bugrara

I hold a Ph.D. in computer science in algorithm design and analysis from Indiana University. I taught in the Computer Science Dept. at Northeastern University for many years and have been the Director of the Information Systems Program within the Graduate School of Engineering there also for several years. I am engaged in research on innovative ways of building complex software systems for medical processes as well as for disease-recognition processes in patient-centric systems. I teach graduate courses, in the College of Engineering, that emphasize effective ways of building secure software systems, modeling complex enterprises in the medical and clinical arenas. My expertise is in engineering complex enterprise software systems. My role is usually that of a senior enterprise architect, mapping business strategies to a company’s underlying systems and negotiating the boundaries between business understanding and software design. My comprehension of, and experience with, how people work and get things done across a variety of industries allow me to address any process-related issue, be it technical, operational, or strategic in the medical and clinical areas. In my approach I bypass mechanical learning and highlight the value and excitement of engineering thinking that gets things done efficiently as well as imaginatively. My current project involves holistic approaches to automating the clinical processes. I have many publications in major computer science journals such as SIAM on Computing, Acta Informatica, and Information Processing Letters. Recently I presented a paper, “Meaningful Use of SOA: Taking on the Complexity of the Clinical Trials Process,” and demonstrating the Clinical Research Atlas this summer (July) at the 3rd Annual SOA in Healthcare Conference, in Washington DC.

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