Hello, I am Chintan O. Patel (COP), second year PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, New York. I received my Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Gujarat University (2002) and University of Missouri-Kansas City (2004) respectively.

Currently I am exploring link discovery and multi-relational data mining approaches on biomedical knowledgebases (UMLS) with my advisor, Dr James J. Cimino. I am interested in anything related to Ontologies*(Philosophical & Computational). Nowadays I am fascinated by stuff in anthropology, statistics, HCI and evaluation.

I interned at the Indian Space Research Organization (Implementing NL Interface and Rete rule-based system) and IBM T. J. Watson Research center (Developing algorithms for reasoning over large scale knowledgebases). During my studies at U of Missouri, I worked with folks from Mid America Heart Institute (HL7 based workflow engine) and Childrens Mercy Hospital (Ontology-based Data Integration and Analysis)

Office: (Satellite View) [google.com]
Vanderbilt Clinic Building, Fifth floor
622 W, 168th Street.
New York, NY-10032

Residence: (Satellite View) [google.com]
100 Haven Avenue, Apt 13H
New York, NY-10032

 

Phone: (914)320-0235 (cell)

Email: firstname.lastname@dbmi.columbia.edu

*The classification structure of this Website is 'inspired' from following upper ontologies: SPAN/SNAP, openCYC, SUO and UMLS-SN

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Conference/Journal Publications
2004

Chintan Patel, Semantic Biomedical Services, W3C Semantic Web - Life Sciences Workshop, Oct 27-28, Boston

Chintan Patel, Yves A. Lussier, Re-Representing Biomedical Ontologies using the Web Ontology Language - A Checklist, Standards and Ontologies in Functional Genomics, Oct 23-26, Philadephia.

Chintan Patel, OntoLinKs - Facilitating Conceptual Linking of Ontologies, Masters Thesis, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Aug 2004

Sushil Puradkar, Sachin Singh, Chintan Patel, Kartik Vishwanath , Rahul Gupta , Yugyung Lee : SEM-Ether: Semantic Web Based Pervasive Computing Framework - Integrating Web, Devices and People. AAAI 2004 : San Jose, California, pp. 1028-1029

Kaustubh Supekar, Chintan Patel, Yugyung Lee, 2004, Web Service Based Workflows for Distributed Health Care Enterprises , Informedica Journal (In Press)

Chintan Patel, K. Supekar, Y. Lee, 2004, Provisioning Resilient, Adaptive Web Services-based Workflow: A Semantic Modeling Approach, in Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004) July 6-9, 2004 , San Diego , California . (28.7% A ccept ance Rate ) , pp. 480 – 487.

Yugyung Lee, Chintan Patel, Soon Ae Chun, and James Geller, 2004, Towards Intelligent Web Services for Automating Medical Services Composition, in Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004 ) July 6-9, 2004, San Diego, California. (28.7% A ccept ance Rate ) , pp. 384 – 391

Olena Parkhomenko, Chintan Patel, Yugyung Lee, 2004, Personalization Using Hybrid Data Mining Approaches in E-Business Applications , in Proceedings of AAAI Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIRS-2004), May 17-19, 2004, Miami Beach, Florida

Chintan Patel, K. Supekar, Yugyung Lee, 2004, Characterizing Quality of Knowledge of an Ontology , in Proceedings of AAAI Florida AI Research Symposium (FLAIRS-2004), May 17-19, 2004, Miami Beach, Florida

Yugyung Lee, Chintan Patel, Soon Ae Chun, James Geller, 2004, Compositional Knowledge Management for Medical Services on Semantic Web , WWW 2004 (poster)

Posters

C. Patel, W. Drake, R. Stroup, Y. Lee, 2004, PedSchema : Chaos to Order - Step towards Uniformity in Cardiology databases, Kansas City Life sciences Research Day.

K. Vishwanath, C. Patel, B. Drake, Y. Lee, 2004, PedStat – Meta Data Driven Web Based Statistical Analysis for Life Sciences, Kansas City Life sciences Research Day.

K . Vishwanath, C . Patel, Y . Lee, W . Drake, S . Simon, 2004, StatWiz – Threading doctors and biostatisticians, Kansas City Life sciences Research Day .


2003

Chintan. Patel, K. Supekar, Yugyung Lee, Eun .K. Park, 2003, OntoKhoj: A Semantic Web Portal for Ontology Searching, Ranking and Classification , Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM Fifth International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), New Orleans, Nov. 3 -8, 2003, pp. 58 - 61 ( PDF )

Chintan Patel, Kaustubh Supekar, and Yugyung Lee, 2003, OntoGenie: Extracting Ontology Instances from WWW , International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop on Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services, Sanibel Island, Florida, October 2003, pp. 123-126 ( PDF )

Kaustubh Supekar, Chintan Patel, Sachin Singh, and Yugyung Lee, 2003, BEE-SMART: Natural Language based system interfacing Semantic Web and Web services , ER 2003 conference , October, 2003 ( PDF )

Chintan Patel, Kaustubh Supekar, Yugyung Lee, 2003, A QoS Oriented Framework for Adaptive Management of Web Service based Workflows , Database and Expert Systems 2003 conference (DEXA) . Prague, Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2003 LNCS, Springer-Verlag pp. 826 – 835.  ( PDF )

Senthilkumar Ayyasamy, Chintan Patel, Yugyung Lee, 2003, Semantic Web Services and DHT-based Peer to Peer Networks: A New Symbiotic Relationship , Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing at the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-03) . Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003 , pp. 81-84

Posters

K. Supekar, C. Patel, A. Marwadi, Q. Chong, Y. Lee , 2003, HLM: HL7 Message Listener, Missouri Life Sciences week 2003.

S. Singh, C. Patel, Y. Lee, 2003, Association based Distributed system for Medication Error Detection and Tracking, Second Annual Kansas City Life Sciences Research Day.
2002

Chintan Patel, Rete rule-based system with a Natural Language interface for searching Image databases, BS Final Year Project at the Indian Space Research Organization

Chintan Patel, Chintan Parikh, Enhanced Password Authentication using Fuzzy Logic, Communique 2002 , D.D.Institute of Technology, Nadiad, India
2001

Natural Language Processing -Presented in TURBULENCE 2001 - A National level annual paper presentation competition held at D. D. Institute of Technology, India. (Won second prize)

An Interactive Tool for writing Multilingual Manuals- Presented in APOGEE 2001 - A National level paper presentation competition held at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India (BITS-Pilani).

ASP-Application Service Provider or A Security Problem - Presented in APOGEE 2001 – Birla Institute of Technology and Science -Pilani, India


Columbia University
Aug 2004 - Present: Working towards PhD in Biomedical Informatics

University of Missouri - Kansas City
2002-2004: MS in Computer Science

Gujarat University
1998-2002: BS in Computer Science

Some stuff I like to do...

<Slashdotting>

<= I guess by looking at this symbol.. Robert Langdon would have linked it to some Aristotelian era group of philosophers.. who resemble the geek generation of today and that Linus Trovalds shares the lineage of Plato

I never read the actual articles (RTFA ;) but I like to read the views of 'slashdotters'. FUDs on M$ are always interesting.. It is one of my goal to get slashdotted.. and get Frank (our SysAdmin) running down frantically... while I ll be somewhere upstate sitting on the bank of Hudson with some Internet connection replying the comments... (btw I go by copdk4.. 712016.. yea yea... 6 digits.. I suck)

I wonder why doesnt slashdot get a slashdot effect.. Is it possible to do that..Any ideas ?
Prophecy was fullfilled ! and YES it did happen on the fateful day of Tuesday Sep 06 (its my first day of Fall 2005 Semester)

Seems a dude from U Washington wrote a PhD thesis on slashdot effect !

Ideal slashdotter stereotypes[answers.com]:

  • That Slashdotters are male
  • That Slashdotters are single
  • That male Slashdotters have poor social skills, particularly in relating to women
  • That female Slashdotters are rare, non-existent, or in reality males hiding behind a feminine name
  • That Slashdotters spend inordinate amounts of time in front of computers
  • That Slashdotters have poor hygiene
  • Most Slashdotters usually live with their parents (often expressed as "living in their mothers' basements")
  • That Slashdotters are obsessed with pornography (example: "200GB hard drive? Where am I going to find enough pr0n to fill that?!")

</Slashdotting>

<Aeromodeling>

I was obssesed with this hobby in my 9-10th grade then somehow I lost it.. Thankfully due to WRAM show.. now I am again on it.. Currently working on 18inch wing-span rubbered powered Praire Bird .. I ll put up some pictures soon.. Next on the list is a CO2 powered free flight 40inch wing-span WWW-II style model plane..

I find the construction and engineering phase more interesting than the actual flying of model airplane.. Some of the model planes have almost equivalent number of parts as compared to the 'real' plane.

</Aeromodeling>

<Reading>

I am not that fond of reading anything on *paper* but couple of factors have made me addicted to reading books.

- On NYC subways.. you cant just keep staring at people/advertisements.. so what most people do is to 'read' something or atleast pretend that way :)

- My Nokia 929o works cool with PDFs and all sorts of eBooks.. and it has this inbuilt modem.. through which I use Columbia dailup to connect to Internet to download anysort of reading material

I have finished couple of P.G. Wodehouse (free from Gutenberg project) and nowadays I am into all Dan Brown 'symbology, mystery, thriller' stuff.

</Reading>

Research Keywords: Ontologies, Terminologies, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, Machine Learning

Current Focus: Using Link Discovery, Multi-relational data mining and Machine Learning techniques for extracting (not explicitly asserted) conceptual links in large multi-terminology knowledgebases (UMLS) (with Dr James J. Cimino)

Useful Links :

Previous Work:

Ontological Representation of Phenotypes (Lussier Lab, Dr Yves Lussier)

Ontology based integration of cardiology databases (UDIC Lab, Dr Yugyung Lee)