Students of Peter Szolovits

Doctoral Theses (as Supervisor)

  1. Swartout, William, "Producing Improved Explanations and Justifications of Expert Consulting Programs Using An Automatic Programming Approach," January, 1981.
  2. Patil, Ramesh, "A Program for Expert Diagnosis and Treatment of Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disturbances," October, 1981.
  3. Smith, Brian C., "Procedural Reflection in Programming Languages," January, 1982.
  4. Kohane, Isaac, "Temporal Reasoning in Medical Expert Systems," Dept. of Computer Science, MD/PhD program, Boston University, May 1987. (Co-supervisor with Bill Henneman of BU.)
  5. Koton, Phyllis., "Using Experience in Learning and Problem Solving," July 1988.
  6. Wellman, Michael, "Formulation of Tradeoffs in Planning Under Uncertainty," July 1988.
  7. Yeh, Alex, "Predicting the Likely Behaviors of Continuous Nonlinear Systems in Equilibrium," August 1990.
  8. Russ, Tom, "Reasoning with Time-Dependent Data," August 1991.
  9. Groleau, Nick, "Model-based Theory Refinement as a Diagnostic Problem," co-supervised with Prof. Laurence Young (Aero. Astro.), Aug 1992.
  10. Amsterdam, Jonathan, "Automated Qualitative Modeling of Physical Systems," Jan. 1993.
  11. Jang, Yeona, "A Hybrid System with Feedback for Diagnosis of Multiple Disorders: HYDI," Aug. 1993.
  12. Haimowitz, Ira, "Automated Trend Detection from Time-Ordered Data," Co-supervised with Isaac Kohane, May 1994.
  13. Leong, Tze-Yun, "Toward a General Framework of Automated Dynamic Decision Making," August 1994.
  14. Hauskrecht, Milos, “Planning and Control in Stochastic Domains with Imperfect Information,” August 1997.
  15. Steward, Duane, “Utility Assessment Based on Individualized Patient Perspectives,” Sept. 1998.
  16. Mohtashemi, Mojdeh, “Qualitative Analysis of Transience in Population Dynamics,” March 2000.
  17. Tsien, Christine. “TrendFinder: Automated Detection of Alarmable Trends,” Co-supervised with Isaac Kohane, April 2000.
  18. Sun, Yao, “Information Exchange between Medical Databases through Automated Identification of Concept Equivalence,” Oct. 2001.
  19. Mui, Lik, “Computational Models of Trust and Reputation: Agents, Evolutionary Games, and Social Networks,” Dec. 2002.
  20. Shen, Delin.  “An Exploratory Analysis of a Large Health Cohort Study Using Bayesian Networks,” Jan. 2006.
  21. Trepetin, Stanley. "Privacy in Context: The Costs and Benefits of a New Deidentification Method," Expected Jan. 2006.
  22. McGeachie, Michael. “Preferences: What People Say and What They Mean By It.” Co-supervised with Jon Doyle.  Expected Dec. 2006.
  23. Perry, John.  Developing proposal in the area of monitoring of clinical guidelines.  Expected 2006.

Doctoral Theses (as Reader)

  1. Borkin, Sheldon, "Equivalence Properties of Semantic Data Models for Database Systems," January, 1979.
  2. Sidner, Candace, "Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse," June 1979.
  3. Doyle, Jon, "Reflexive Interpreters," June 1980.
  4. Church, Kenneth W. "Phrase-Structure Parsing: A Method for Taking Advantage of Allophonic Constraints," January 1983.
  5. Fieschi, Marius. "Sphinx, un systeme d'aide a la decision en medecine," Faculte de Medecine de Marseille, Apr. 1983.
  6. Shibahara, T., "On Using Causal Knowledge to Recognize Vital Signals: A Study of Knowledge-based Interpretation of Arrythmias," Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, October 1985.
  7. McAllester, David, "ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics," May 1987.
  8. Sacks, Elisha, "Piecewise Linear Reasoning," February 1988.
  9. Simmons, Reid, "Generate, Test and Debug: A Paradigm for Interpretation Problems in Geology," May 1988.
  10. Hamscher, Walter, "Diagnostic Reasoning for Digital Devices with Static Storage Elements", May 1988.
  11. Van Baalen, Jeff, "Constructing Specialized Representations for Analytical Reasoning Problems," January 1989.
  12. deJong, Peter, "Ubik: A Framework for the Development of Distributed Organizations," August 1989.
  13. Reubenstein, Howie, "A Requirements Analyst's Apprentice," May 1990.
  14. Wills, Linda M., "Determining the Limits of Automated Program Recognition," March 1992.
  15. Wu, Tom, "A Decompositional Approach to the Diagnosis of Multiple Disorders," May 1992.
  16. Rymon, Ron, "Diagnostic Reasoning and Planning in Exloratory-Corrective Domains," at Dept. of Computer and Information Science, U. of Pennsylvania, June 1993.
  17. Rojas-Guzman, Carlos, "Bayesian Belief Networks for Knowledge Integration and Abductive Inference in Fault Diagnosis of Chemical Processes," Chemical Engineering Dept., MIT, Dec. 1994.
  18. Chrisostomos Dellarocas, “A Coordination Perspective on Software Architecture: Towards a Design Handbook of Reusable Software Glue,” Nov. 1995.
  19. Bernstein, Abraham. “Populating the Specificity Frontier: IT Support for Improvisational and Adaptive Business Processes,” Aug. 2000.
  20. Sweeney, Latanya. “Computational Disclosure Control,” May 2001.
  21. Lee, Tom. “Attribution Metadata for Internet Data Management,” Jan 2002.
  22. Chklovski, Timothy A. “Using Analogy to Acquire Commonsense Knowledge from Human Contributors,” Feb. 2003.
  23. Quan, Dennis, “Designing End User Information Environments Built on Semistructured Data Models,” June 2003.
  24. Steinkraus, Kurt, “Solving large stochastic planning problems using multiple dynamic abstractions.” May 2005.
  25. Varma, Chris, “Quantitative analysis of splicing isoform expression profiles of CD44 in a subset of human cancers,” May 2005.
  26. Lacson, Ronilda. “Natural Language Discourse Models for Spoken Medical Dialogue.” Aug. 2005.
  27. Sung, Michael, “Using wearable technology for non-invasive physiological and contextual ambulatory/wearable sensing,” Nov. 2005.
  28. Peters, Stephen L. "Service Mapping Architecture," Expected Jan. 2006
  29. Saeed, Mohammed. "Model-based Intelligent Patient Monitoring using Multichannel Data Fusion and Wavelet Analysis." Expected May 2006.
  30. Finlayson, Mark, “Analogical Reasoning using Representational Constraint and Re-representational Feedback,” Expected May 2007.
  31. Lasko, Tom. Developing thesis proposal on "Spectral Anonymization of Data."

Masters Theses (S.M. & M.Eng.)

  1. Swartout, William R., "A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations," co-supervised with W. A. Martin, February 1977.
  2. Smith, Brian C., "Levels, Layers, and Planes: The Framework of a System of Knowledge Representation Semantics," January 1978.
  3. Bruccoleri, Robert, "English Conversational Error Correction in a Natural Language Parser," September 1978.
  4. Church, Kenneth W., "On Memory Limitations in Natural Language Processing," June 1980.
  5. Sherman, Howie, "A Comparative Study of Computer-Aided Clinical Diagnosis of Birth Defects," January, 1981.
  6. Masand, Brij, "A Cancer Protocol Writer's Assistant," August 1982.
  7. Asbell, Irwin J., "A Constraint Representation and Explanation Facility for Renal Physiology," August 1982.
  8. Russ, Tom, "Ventricular Arrhythmia Management: A Knowledge-Based Approach," May 1983.
  9. Granville, Robert, "Cohesion in Computer Text Generation: Lexical Substitution," co-supervised with R. Berwick, May 1983.
  10. Koton, Phyllis, "A System to Aid in the Solution of Problems in Molecular Genetics," May 1983.
  11. Barton, G. Edward, "A Multiple-Context Equality-Based Reasoning System," co-supervised with R. Waters, June 1983.
  12. Sacks, Elisha, "Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning," Nov. 1984.
  13. Reubenstein, Howie B., "OPMAN: An OPS5 Rule Base Editing and Maintenance Package," Feb. 1985.
  14. Wellman, Michael P., "Reasoning about Preference Models," May 1985.
  15. Kunstaetter, Robert, "Intelligent physiologic modeling: An Application of Knowledge Based Systems Technology to Medical Education," co-supervised with G. Octo Barnett, Mass. General Hosp., April 1986.
  16. Harris, Nomi, "Probabilistic Reasoning in the Domain of Genetic Counseling," May 1989.
  17. Lai, S.-H., "CLIPSBASE: A Real-Time Relational Database for the 'Principal Investigator-in-a-Box' Expert System," co-supervised with Laurence R. Young, January 1991.
  18. Aghassi, David, "Evaluating Case-Based Reasoning for Heart Failure Diagnosis," June 1990.
  19. Leong, Tze-Yun, "Knowledge Representation for Supporting Decision Model Formulation in Medicine," August 1990.
  20. Wu, Jennifer W., "Space-Time Trade Off via Loop-Unrolling applied to Algorithms in Genetic Linkage Analysis," Feb. 1993.
  21. Wu, David C-L., "A Patient Location System," Dec. 1993.
  22. Yeh, Susan S. “Constructing Decision Models for Diabetes Using Clinical Data,” May 1994.
  23. Sharma, Ashish.  “Loan Pricing Model: Design and Implementation,” May 1996.
  24. Le, Phillip Phuc Van.  “A Clinical Trial of TrenDx: An Automated Trend Detection Program,” Sept. 1996.
  25. Sweeney, Latanya.  “Sprees: a Finite-State Orthographic Learning System that Recognizes and Generates Phonologically Similar Spellings,” May 1997.
  26. Schindler, Jiri.  “Learning the Structure and Content of an Electronic Medical Record System,” May 1997.
  27. Zhao, Ruilin.  “A Model-based Expert System for Interpretation of Hemodynamic Data from Intensive Care Unit Patients,” Co-supervised with Roger Mark, June, 1997.
  28. Goyal, Manish.  “A Visual Method for Input of Uncertain Time-Oriented Data”, Aug. 1997.
  29. Nigrin, Daniel J. “Improved Access to Large Medical Databases for Clinical Research and Quality Improvement.” Co-supervised with I. Kohane, Children’s Hospital, Boston. Feb. 1999.
  30. Miller, Jason C. “A Genetic Risk System for Genetic Counselors.” May 1999
  31. Coury, Catherine M. Co-supervised with Mojdeh Mohtashemi, May 1999.
  32. DeSouza, Mary. “Automated Medical Trend Detection.” May 2000.
  33. Lacson, Ronilda. “Knowledge Representation of Situation-Specific Clinical Practice Guidelines.” Co-supervised with A. Boxwala, DSG, Brigham & Women’s Hosp., Boston. June 2000.
  34. Butte, Atul J.. "Mutual Information Relevance Networks: Functional Genomic Clustering Using Pairwise Entropy Measures." Co-supervised with I. Kohane. Sep 2000.
  35. Ang, Cheewee. "A context-based personalized rating system using reputation as a basis." Co-supervised with Lik Mui. May 2001.
  36. Koh, Waikit. "An information theoretic approach to ontology-based interest matching." Co-supervised with Lik Mui. May 2001.
  37. Nakrin, Andrew. "TagMeds -- A Tool for Populating eXtensible Markup Language Documents with UMLS Concept Unique Identifiers of Current Medications." May 2001.
  38. Wu, Min. "Secure Health Information Sharing System." Co-supervised with Mojdeh Mohtashemi. May 2001.
  39. Tanudjaja, Francisco. "Personalization of Search Engines." Co-supervised with Lik Mui. Jun 2001.
  40. Mani, Kartik M.. "Heart at Home -- Guardian Angel for Hearth Failure." Co-supervised with William J. Long and John Ankcorn. Aug 2001.
  41. Bull, Steven M.. "Diagnostic Process Monitoring with Temporally Uncertain Models." May 2002.
  42. Harik, Ralph. “Structural and Semantic Information Extraction.”  Feb 2003.
  43. Zhang, Ying. "Real-Time Analysis of Physiological Data and Development of Alarm Algorithms for Patient Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit." Aug 2003.
  44. Hastings, Joseph. “Incremental Bayesian Segmentation for Intrusion Detection.” Co-supervised with Marco Ramoni. Sep 2003.
  45. Cody, Patrick M.. "Dynamic Security for Medical Record Sharing." Aug 2003.
  46. Cassa, Chris, “Spatial Outbreak Detection Analysis Tool: A system to create sets of semi-synthetic geo-spatial clusters.” Sep 2004.
  47. Bhooshan, Neha R. “Classification of Semantic Relations from Syntactic Structures in Medical Text Using the MeSH Hierarchy.” Feb 2005.
  48. Hope, Stephanie. "Personal Internetworked Notary and Guardian Supported by Distributed Data Storage," May 2005.
  49. Shu, Jennifer. "Free Text Phrase Encoding and Information Extraction from Medical Notes," Co-supervised with Roger Mark, September 2005.
  50. Katirai, Hooman. "A Toolkit for the Mathematics of Privacy", MIT EECS & TPP, expected March 2006.
  51. Rudin, Robert. Developing proposal on use of the Chord distributed hash table as a back-end for the PING personal medical record system.
  52. Sibanda, Tawanda. Developing proposal on improved methods for de-identifying textual medical records data. Co-supervised with Ozlem Uzuner.

S.B. Theses/Undergraduate Advanced Projects

  1. Cooper, Gregory F., "MTQ, A Medically Oriented Time Series Query Language," May 1977.
  2. Conklin, Bill, "The design and implementation of a pharmacy billing system for a 300-bed hospital," May 1978.
  3. Halbert, David C., "A LISP Debugger for Display Terminals," May 1978.
  4. Russ, Tom, "Design of Drug Administration Protocols for Cancer Therapy," May 1980.
  5. Jonathan Schmick, "Clarifying and Defining Operating Characteristics of a Differential Diagnosis Program", May 1981.
  6. Wellman, Michael P., "A System to Help Physicians Evaluate Evidence Using Bayesian Revision," May 1983.
  7. Alfonso, Leola A. "Protocol Analysis Applied to Medical Problem Solving," Sept. 1984.
  8. Pachura, David W., "A Re-Implementation of the ABEL Expert Knowledge Base," Sept. 1985.
  9. Sullivan, Tom, "A Concurrent PASCAL Implementation," May 1989.
  10. Stewart, William P., "LINK: A Representation of Gene Linkage in Common Lisp," May 1991.
  11. Yampratoom, Ed, "Automatic Layout for Pedigree Diagrams," May 1991.
  12. Wu, David C., "An Object-Oriented Event-Driven Measurement Architecture," May 1993.
  13. Sun, Jennifer Y., "Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Breast Cancer," May 1994.
  14. Lui, Jervis. “Development of a Pedigree Analysis Tool for Genetic Counselors,” May 1998.
  15. Block, Brad. "A Unifying Parameterized Abstraction for Segmented Web Application Creation." May 2001.
  16. Khilnani, Reshma.  “Clustering of News Articles from Multiple Web Sources.” May 2003.
  17. Enuha, Uchechukwu. "Bridging the Linguistic Gap in the Medical Community using Cognate Translation Software," May 2005.
  18. Pigneri, Rocco J. "Parsing and Segmentation of Chemical Terms in Medical Journals," May 2005.
  19. Schmeckpeper, Ben. "TRAK: Track Results ArcKive," May 2005.
  20. Bhargava, Neha. "AIDS Patient Case-tracking System: Discussion of the Web Interface," May 2005. (This and the reports by Callahan, Eng, Gupta, Moah, Powers and Wang describe different aspects of a collaborative project to build a case-tracking system for health workers in Zambia.)
  21. Callahan, Tyler. "A PDA-based Patient Tracking System," May 2005.
  22. Eng, Christy. "Patient Case Tracking System: Web Server Development," May 2005.
  23. Gupta, Rohit. "DTM: Casetracking," May 2005.
  24. Moah, Aye M. "Modular Patient Tracking System," May 2005.
  25. Powers, Alvin C., III. "Patient Case Tracking: A GUI Application for Data Collection and Data Management System for AIDS Patients in Zambia," May 2005.
  26. Wang, Qian. "AIDS Patient Tracking System," May 2005.
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