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Thomas Lee holds Bachelor's Degrees in Political Science and Symbolic Systems (Artificial Intelligence) from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he did clinical research in anesthesiology with Dr. David Gaba on anesthesia patient safety and measuring the mental workload of the anesthesiologist.  His Master's thesis in Technology Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on role-based access controls for computer-based patient records. His PhD from MIT's Engineering Systems Division explored attribution for heterogeneous data integration. The thesis develops a formal model and a policy framework for propagating annotations on structured and semistructured data to manage intellectual property attribution and data quality.  He has served as a visiting scientist at the Computer Security Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a research engineer at the MITRE Corporation, and as a contractor for DynCorp-Meridian supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency doing research on Internet privacy and security.

 

His current research interests are in Data Integration and Knowledge Management with a particular focus on semistructured and unstructured data such as user-generated Web content.  He has taught undergraduate, MBA, and PhD level courses on databases and co-taught an MBA elective on the application of information technologies to operations management strategy.  He currently teaches the core undergraduate course on decision modeling.  He is a recipient of the David W. Hauck Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the Wharton School.  The award is granted to only one member of the junior faculty every year.  He has published in Decision Support Systems, Information Systems, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, and the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems.

 

In his spare time, he trains and races in distance relays with a team of dorm mates from his MIT graduate residence.  He swims and cycles to cross-train but no, he has never done a triathalon and yes, it is on the list of things to do.  Unfortunately, his wife will not allow him to compete in the local Philly events because she does not believe the Schuylkill River Water Quality Forecasts.