Fiorella V Simoni

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Summary of Professional Experience Diglio Simoni provides leading-edge computational and modeling solutions for commercial and government research clients. He has academic training in various fields, including computer science, life sciences, neuroscience, physics and mathematics. He specializes in the use of technologically advanced methodologies, especially High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, advanced visualization techniques, and web-based solutions for the design and implementation of a wide variety of projects in scientific data manipulation, analysis and interpretation, including back-end database system design and connectivity for real-time transactions, specification and analysis of bandwidth requirements, and the design and implementation of efficient user interfaces. At RTI, Simoni is a Project Director, leading teams of software developers and biostatisticians in developing bioinformatics tools. He is involved in many aspects of system development, including project management, requirements analysis, object-oriented analysis and design, configuration management, and programming. Simoni is a technical visionary with a wide breadth of expertise and interests. Education PhD, Candidate, Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, expected 2010. MS, Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 1995. Graduate work in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA, 1991. BA, Computer Science, Mathematics minor, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, 1989. (Honors) Selected Project Experience Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) (2005 to date) —Senior Computational Scientist. Provides leading-edge computational support for scientific needs in high-performance computing, including the design and development of advanced visualization tools and the parallelization of large agent-based simulation codes. Experience in GIS systems, synthetic population construction methods. Breast and Colon Cancer Family Registries Informatics Support Center (BC-CFR ISC) (2005 to date) —Principal Investigator. The Breast and Colon Cancer Family Registries is a research network funded by the National Cancer Institute to study the interplay of environmental and genetic factors in the development of breast and colorectal cancer. RTI is the Informatics Support Center for the network. As such, RTI develops core software and database technologies, performs data analysis, and assists investigators with experimental design. Catalogue Automation Tool (CAT) (2006 to date) —Principal Scientist/Inventor. The purpose of this project is to build an adaptive real-time learning system that provides the user personalized electronic search results based on past behavior, comprising: a method for capturing clickstream, creating user profiles, accessing others' profiles to augment individual search results, and presenting bet fit results. Human and Machine Vision (Copycat) (2006 to date) —Principal Scientist/Inventor.

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