
What
I'm Up To:
I recently joined the Courtyard Group (a Healthcare consulting firm) as a consultant
I finished my thesis and it won 1st Runner Up for the Best Thesis Prize!
Last summer, I interned as a Product Manager at
Microsoft.
In 2004 I joined the Children's Hospital
Informatics Program to work on Indivo
-- a multi-institution medical record system.
Links
Veristage
-- a company I founded in 2001.
Bahai.org
-- official site of the Baha'i Faith
Blue
Six -- Link to a mix by my favorite music group.
Papers
/ Patents / Presentations:
A Theory and Toolkit for the Mathematics of Privacy, MIT Masters Thesis, 2006. [PDF]
A
Genetic Programming Approach to Document Classification, 1999.
Filtering
Junk E-mail: A Comparison between Genetic Programming and Naive
Bayes, 1999
[PDF]
Canadian
Patent 2345805, "Enterprise Privacy System
& Method," 2000.
Canadian
Patent 2316743, "Managed Privacy Database
System & Method", 2001
"Are
we living in a Matrix? What Can Computers Tell Us About God?",
MIT IAP, 2004
[Powerpoint
or HTML
and Flash]
"Is
a Unknowable God Logical?" Changing Times
Conference, 2005.
[Slides
and Materials]
"How
to Manage Projects: An introduction to a distinctive project management
methodology," Unravel Conference : Toronto, 2004
[Powerpoint]
Katirai,
H, Vinterbo, S. (PhD), and Fischer, R. (PhD), "A
Toolkit for The Mathematics of Privacy," Pending Submission,
2004 [PDF].
Katirai,
H, and Sax, U. (PhD), "Unlocking the
value of clinical information: What you need to do now, to enjoy
the benefits in the future", in Lecture
Notes in Computer Science and Knowledge Management for Medicine
2005.
[PDF]
Katirai,
H, and Sax, U. (PhD),
"Efficiently Integrating Heterogeneous
Health Information Systems using Compilable Templates and HL7 CDA",
Submitted for Publication, 2004
Katirai,
H, and Sax, U. (PhD), "Individualized
Healthcare with Standardized, Lifelong Personal Health Records,"
2004
Miscellaneous:
Resume (outdated)
Photo Blog
Fascinating
Ideas & Literature
MIT Baha'i Association
Contact:
Hooman
Katirai
27
Barberry Place,
Toronto, ON
M2K 1G9, CANADA
Tel:
(416) 722-2323
Email:
<first name> @ mit.edu (replace <first name> with my
first name)
MSN:
hkatirai@hotmail.com
AOL:
hoothemank


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About
Me:
I recently completed Masters degrees in Computer
Science and Technology
& Policy at MIT where I was advised by Peter
Szolovits from the MIT's Clinical Decision Making Group and
Isaac
Kohane, Ken Mandl and Staal
Vinterbo from Harvard Medical School.
Research
Focus:
My
research could be summed up as an exploration into multi-institution
electronic medical records, privacy technologies, and medical computer
science applications. I
also
did considerable coursework in Finance,
Management,
and Technology Strategy.
Past
Work :
My
past research includes work in Search Engines, Machine Learning,
Privacy Technologies, and Voice over IP. In
2001 I founded Veristage,
a machine learning company. In
2000, I was the enterprise product manager of Zero-Knowledge,
a privacy technologies company. In
1998 I built for WebSENSE,
the URL Filtering Industy's first focused web crawler. This helped
WebSENSE build a list considerable larger than their competitors.
In 1999, I wrote one of the first papers that used Machine Learning to filter junk mail.
 

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