Faculty

Joel Saltz
Professor, Pathology and MathCS, Director - Emory CCI
Office: Psych
Phone: (404)727-4643
Personal website: http://cci.emory.edu
Office hours
  • By appointment
Research
  • Develop principles, techniques and tools that can be used by biomedical researchers to assemble a coherent biomedical picture by integrating information from multiple complementary data sources.
  • Computational Grid (caGRID) service oriented software architecture
  • Development of imaging informatics tools, algorithms and techniques
  • Development of effective and efficient support for demand-driven high end computing
  • Development and evaluation of computer science techniques, tools and algorithms motivated by deep integrative research applications.
Recent publications
  • J. Saltz, T. Kurc, S. Hastings, S. Langella, S. Oster, D. Ervin, A. Sharma, T. Pan, M. Gurcan, J. Permar, R. Ferreira, P. Payne, U. Catalyurek, E. Caserta, G. Leone, M. Ostrowski, R. Madduri, I. Foster, S. Madhavan, K. Buetow, K. Shanbhag, E. Siegel, "e-Science, caGrid, and Translational Biomedical Research", IEEE Computer, Vol. 41, No. 11, pp. 58-66, November, 2008.
  • Oster S, S. Langella, S. L. Hastings, D. W. Ervin, R. Madduri, J. Phillips, Kurc T, F. Siebenlist, P. A. Covitz, K. Shanbhag, I. Foster, Saltz J, ”caGrid 1.0: An Enterprise Grid Infrastructure for Biomedical Research”, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Vol. 15, pp. 138-149, 2008
  • Langella S, S. Hastings, S. Oster, T. Pan, A. Sharma, J. Permar, D. Ervin, B. Cambazoglu, Kurc T, and Saltz J, "Sharing Data and Analytical Resources Securely in a Biomedical Research Grid Environment", Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 15(3), pp. 363-373, 2008.
  • Gurcan M, Pan T, Sharma A, Kurc T, Oster S, Langella S, Hastings S, Siddiqui K, Siegel E, Saltz J, "GridImage: A Novel Use of Grid Computing to Support Interactive Human and Computer-Assisted Detection Decision Support", J of Digit Imaging 2007:20(2): 160-171.
  • Pan T, Gurcan MN, Langella S, Oster S, Hastings S, Sharma A, Rutt BG, Ervin DW, Kurc TM, Siddiqui KM, Saltz JH, Siegel E. GridCAD: Grid-based Computer-aided Detection System. RadioGraphics. 2007, May-June: 27(3): 889-897.
  • Saltz JH, Oster S, Hastings S, Langella S, Kurc TM, Sanchez W, Kher M, Manisundaram A, Shanbhag K, Covitz P. caGrid: Design and Implementation of the Core Architecture of the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid. Bioinformatics. 2006, August 1: 22(15): 1910-16.
  • Zhang X, Rutt B, Catalyurek UV, Kurc TM, Stoffa PL, Sen M, Saltz JH. Supporting Scalable and Distributed Data Subsetting and Aggregation in Large-Scale Sismic Data Analysis. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. 2006, August: 20: 423-438.
  • Kurc TM, Catalyurek UV, Zhang X, Saltz JH, Martino R, Wheeler MF, Peszynska M, Sussman A, Hansen C, Sen MK, Stoffa, PL, Torres-Verdin C, Parashar M. "A Simulation and Data Analysis System for Large-scale, Data-driven Oil Reservoir Simulation Studies". Concurrency-Practice and Experience. 2005: 17(11): 1441-1467.
  • Saltz J, S. Oster, S. L. Hastings, S. Langella, R. A. Ferreira, J. D. Permar, A. Sharma, D.W. Ervin, T. C. Pan, U. V. Catalyurek, Kurc T, ”Translational research design templates, Grid computing, and HPC”, The 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’08), April, 2008.
  • Kong J, Shimada H, Boyer K, Saltz JH, Gurcan M. "Image Analysis for Automated Assessment of Grade of Neuroblastic Differentiation." Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro. ISBI 2007. 4th IEEE International Symposium. Washington D.C. 2007, April 12:15: 61-64.
  • Khanna G, Catalyurek, UV, Kurc TM, Sadayappan P, Saltz JH. Scheduling File Transfers for Data-intensive Jobs on Heterogeneous Clusters. Proceedings of Euro-Par. 2007.
Education
  • MD, Ph.D. (1985) Duke University (Computer Science)
  • M.S. (1978) University of Michigan (Mathematics)
  • B.S. (1977) University of Michigan (Mathematics and Physics)