Advanced Technology Research and Development

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Margo Brinkley, a senior technical director, has over 20 years of experience in data processing and over 25 years in software design and development. She specializes in planning, directing, coordinating, and performing software development and data processing activities. Ms. Brinkley has also designed, developed, and documented intricate general-purpose software systems, including editing and control system software, and a menu and windowing interface for a statistical package marketed nationally. She has also contributed significantly to the computer-assisted telephone interviewing and computer-assisted personal interviewing development process at RTI since the inception of both systems in the late 1970s. Ms. Brinkley is currently the manager of the Multi-Site Computing Group and directs data processing tasks on multi-site projects. Read More…

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Philip C. Cooley, Fellow in bioinformatics and high-performance computing, appointed March 2008, is a principal scientist and assistant director of bioinformatics. He has more than 35 years of experience developing computer models for the study of environmental health and disease transmission scenarios. Cooley has been extensively involved in designing and implementing influenza transmission models for the study and management of pandemic flu. His current research includes an assessment of statistical methods for biomarker explorations as part of genome-wide-analysis studies, and he has developed a database of loci with known genetic properties. Cooley has authored or co-authored numerous reports, professional journal articles, and book chapters, and has reviewed for Science, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and the AIDS and Related Research Study Section for the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is on the editorial board of Computers and Human Behavior. Read More…

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Charles Ebel, senior manager in RTI International’s Research Computing Division, is a veteran writer and educator in the field of sexual and reproductive health. In his previous work as a vice president of the American Social Health Association, a nonprofit organization that works to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and their consequences, Mr. Ebel directed patient support and education programs on genital herpes, genital HPV, and other infections. He has also conducted survey research on attitudes and knowledge concerning viral STDs. Mr. Ebel has authored three books and dozens of articles for the lay press. His books include Sexual Health: Questions You Have, Answers You Need and Managing Herpes: Living and Loving with HSV. Read More…

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David Ensor, PhD, appointed as an RTI Senior Fellow in March 2002, has more than 30 years of experience in aerosol science and air pollution research and is director of the Center for Aerosol Technology and recognized as a leading expert in filtration, indoor air quality, and cleanroom technology. He founded the American Association for Aerosol Research and the research journal Aerosol Science and Technology. Dr. Ensor consistently contributes to scientific literature and has written 70 peer-reviewed papers and 5 book chapters. He has given more than 160 presentations to major national and international conferences, and holds four U.S. patents. Read More…

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Michael Gallaher, PhD, is the director of RTI’s Technology, Energy, and the Environment Program and has over 10 years of experience leading projects for NIST, EPA, NSF, and NTIA and other federal agencies modeling the economic impact of new technologies. Dr. Gallaher specializes in developing baseline/counterfactual scenarios from which incremental costs and benefits can be measured, and he has conducted both retrospective and prospective technology assessments. His research has involved assessing the economic implications of technology adoption in the automotive, aerospace, computer hardware and software, chemical, iron and steel, and construction industries. Dr. Gallaher has led the review and redesign of national establishment-level surveys for NSF and EPA and has developed and implemented a wide range of survey methods, including in-person, telephone, mail, and Internet-based surveys. Read More…

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Jay Levinsohn, PhD, has worked at RTI since 1974. He began his career in educational research by building large education databases from survey data. He then spent almost 15 years in information technology managing central computing services and assisting in the transition at RTI from mainframe computing to PC and PC server-based systems. In the last 8 years, he has been a department head in RTI’s Research Computing Division. He has over 30 years of experience in managing research projects, managing technical support services, and developing software applications. In the last several years, Dr. Levinsohn has focused on developing and deploying mobile computing systems. He has developed systems for the handheld Pocket PC to collect survey data in a variety of environments and for different applications. Read More…

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Barbara L. Massoudi, MPH, PhD, is a senior research health scientist and leads the health informatics program at RTI. Dr. Massoudi has more than 20 years of experience in health, public health, and informatics and has specialized skills in epidemiology and environmental and occupational health. Her current research interests include documenting and reengineering the business processes of public health, knowledge management, electronic health records, personal health records, health information exchange, updating the National Agenda for Public Health Informatics, and public health informatics training and competencies. She previously led the Impact Analysis of the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaborative for AHRQ, and the Assessment of Variation and Solutions report for the first phase of the project. Dr. Massoudi is adjunct assistant professor of informatics at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and chair of the Public Health Informatics Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association. Read More…

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Helen Pan, PhD, has over 14 years of experience in genomics and bioinformatics, in analyzing data generated from high-throughput technologies from genomics, in proteomics, and in metabolomics in the context of biological pathways and networks to address biological questions. As domain expert and QA specialist for data coordination and repository projects, Dr. Pan also has experience in defining data element requirements and assessing data quality. She has co-authored over 22 scientific papers and 24 patents. Read More…

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Charles Rodes discusses his work in aerosol research

Charles E. Rodes, PhD, Senior Fellow in aerosol exposure, was appointed in July 2008 and leads the Aerosol Exposure Program at RTI. He has conducted health-based aerosol exposure research for federal and private clients since 1992. Previously, Dr. Rodes conducted aerosol technology and environmental exposure research for 23 years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He currently serves as the exposure expert on particulate matter for EPA's Board of Scientific Councilors and is leading grant research to develop asthma aerosol trigger sensors for the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). He also provides aerosol exposure guidance to the National Childrens Study, the U.S. Army (USACHPPM) for active duty soldiers, and for first responders as chair of an expert panel advising the Department of Homeland Security. He is a peer reviewer for five technical journals and the author of over 50 peer journal articles on aerosol exposure technologies.

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Brian R. Stoner, PhD, Senior Fellow in materials and electronic technologies, appointed May 2009, directs research activities related to biomedical materials and devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based sensors, and photonics. Before joining RTI, Dr. Stoner was a senior scientist for Kobe Steel USA's Electronic Materials Center, researching plasma processing of thin-film microelectronic materials. At RTI, he currently manages research programs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. Stoner also is an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University and a member of the Curriculum in Applied Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he conducts research on biomaterials, nanostructured materials, and related devices. His RTI Fellow's research will center on cultivating strategic university and corporate partnerships in the area of biomedical materials and devices. He holds 22 U.S. patents related to novel microelectronic materials and systems, and has authored or co-authored two book chapters and more than 100 publications. Read More…

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Ramasubramanian Suresh, Director of the Center for Survey Technology in the Research Computing Division, is an expert at systems for personal, telephone, and Web-based interviewing, including CAPI, ACASI, CATI, and Web-based studies. He has directed development of instruments, laptop applications, field data management components, centralized data capture, monitoring or control systems, data management, and file delivery. He was the chief architect of RTI's CATI Case Management System (CATI-CMS), pioneered the Computer Audio-Recorded Interview (CARI) technology, was one of the senior designers of RTI's Integrated Field Case Management System (IFMS), led the effort to develop RTI's Document Management (DocMan) system for field studies so that CAPI data collection could be effectively paperless, and played a lead role in transitioning the CATI and IFMS systems to be FIPS-moderate compliant using RTI's Enhanced Security Network (ESN). Currently, he is leading the development of RTI's Hatteras system, which is Web-based computer-assisted interviewing software. Read More…

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Dorota Temple, PhD, Senior Fellow (appointed September 2009) and program director in electronics and energy technologies, has over 20 years of experience in electronic materials and processing. Her recent research focused on technologies for high-density 3-D integration of electronic and optoelectronic devices and technologies for electronic systems on flexible substrates. She has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, including several invited review papers. Dr. Temple was elected to the board of directors of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) and has chaired the publication committee of the AVS, overseeing the publication of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (JVST) and Surface Science Spectra. She was an associate editor of JVST and an editor of a special issue of JVST with selected papers from International Vacuum Microelectronics Conferences (IVMC) while serving as a member of the IVMC International Steering Committee. Read More…

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David Uglow joined RTI in 2003 from Mathematica, where he was director of the Information Systems (IS) group for 5 years. Mr. Uglow has a long-standing interest in innovative computer-assisted data acquisition techniques. At the Bureau of Labor Statistics, he managed the development of the first large-scale federal Windows-based, pen-based field data collection instruments for the Consumer Price Index. At RTI, he is the operations manager of the Research Computing Division, and is leading a research group in interactive voice response and other voice computing applications. He served as co-organizer of the FedCASIC conference between 1990 and 1997, and received the BLS Commissioner’s Awards for Eminent and Superior Achievement for the design and development of the Systems Development Life Cycle for all Consumer Price Index production software, and the 1998 Consumer Price Index Revision. Read More…

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Rama Venkatasubramanian discusses his applied research
in thermoelectric technology