Referent Tracking Unit - Shahid Manzoori Curriculum Vita

	Referent Tracking Unit (RTU) New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences 701 Ellicott Street, suite B2-160 Buffalo NY 14203 USA smanzoor AT buffalodot edu office: (716) 881-8975		Education Employment Grants awarded Services to the Profession Scientific associations Patent applications Publications Papers in refereed journals Papers in refereed conference proceedings Chapters in books Master Thesis
Shahid Manzoor has a MSc Computer Science degree from Saarland University, Germany. Prior to coming to Buffalo, he was a full time researcher at Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science in Germany. Currently, he is Senior Programmer/Analyst in Referent Tracking Unit implementing a prototype Referent Tracking System (RTS) using client-server, peer-2-peer and webservices architectural technologies. He is also involved in the integration strategies (especially using middleware approach) implementation of the RTS with EHR applications.

Master of Computer Science (MCS), The National College, Lahore-Pakistan, 1996-1998.

2000-2002	Software Engineer, AZM Computer Services Pvt Ltd, Lahore, Pakistan.
2002-2005	Research Assitant, ActiveMath Group, Germany Institute for Artifitial Intelligence, Saarbruecken, Germany.
2005-2006	Researcher (Software Engineer), Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS), Saarland University Germany.
2006-	Researcher (Sr. Programmer/Analyst), Referent Tracking Unit, New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, Buffalo NY, USA. .

2006-	Referent Tracking Unit. Startup grant from the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences ($450,000, co-PI)
2007-2009	UB Task force for Ontology-based IT Support for Large Scale Field Studies in Psychiatry. John R. Oishei Foundation ($148,328, co-PI)
2009-	Realism-based versioning for biomedical ontologies. co-PI (total funding: $285,300 from the National Library of Medicine, NIH) (project description)

2007	Member of the American Medical Informatics Association.
2008-	Member of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development.

Ceusters W, Smith B, Manzoor S. R-6182 Referent Tracking. Provisional patent application filed by Hodgon Russ LLP under Docket No 011520.00632; Priority Application Serial No. 60/963,736 filed August 7, 2007.
Ceusters W, Smith B, Manzoor S. Referent Tracking of Portions of Reality. Patent pending, application filed by Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C., Docket No. 1097.015A, August 6, 2008

Manzoor S, Ceusters W, Rudnicki R. Implementation of a Referent Tracking System. International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics 2007;2(4):41-58. ( summary, full paper).

Manzoor S, Libbrecht P, Melis E, Ullrich C. Authoring Presentation for OpenMath. In Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management, LNCS 3863, Springer Verlag , 2006. (draft)
Rudnicki R, Ceusters W, Manzoor S, Smith B. What Particulars are Referred to in EHR Data? A Case Study in Integrating Referent Tracking into an Electronic Health Record Application. In Teich JM, Suermondt J, Hripcsak C. (eds.), American Medical Informatics Association 2007 Annual Symposium Proceedings, Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations to Applications to Policy, Chicago IL, 2007;:630-634. (abstract,draft)
Manzoor S, Ceusters W, Rudnicki R. A Middleware Approach to Integrate Referent Tracking in EHR Systems. In Teich JM, Suermondt J, Hripcsak C. (eds.), American Medical Informatics Association 2007 Annual Symposium Proceedings, Biomedical and Health Informatics: From Foundations to Applications to Policy, Chicago IL, 2007;:503-507.(abstract,draft)
Manzoor S, Ceusters W, Rudnicki R, Arp R. The Referent Tracking System as a Peer to Peer Application. In: Khoshgoftaar T (ed.) Proceedings of The Ninth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, November 16-18, 2008. Acta Press, Anaheim, Calgary, Zurich, 2008;:112-117. (paper,reviews)
Ceusters W, Manzoor S. Ontology-based version management of websites. InterOntology 2009, February 27 � March 1, Tokyo, Japan (forthcoming). (draft)

Ceusters W, Manzoor S. How to track absolutely everything? In: Obrst L, Janssen T, Ceusters W (eds.) Ontologies and Semantic Technologies for the Intelligence Community. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press Amsterdam, 2009 (forthcoming). (final draft)