Faculty & staff

Usage patterns of Personal Health Record (PHR) delivered over the Internet and their effect on quality of care and patient's interaction with the healthcare provider. Received a 400,000 INS grant from Israel's Ministry of Science and Technology.

The effect of therapeutic intervention by diabetes specialist on the quality of treatment in diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Received a 50,000 INS grant from Kupat Cholim Clalit.

U. Ramachandran, K. Knobe, N. Harel, H. Mandviwalla. "Distributed Garbage Collection Algorithms for Timestamped Data". IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 1057-1071, October 2006

U. Ramachandran, R. Nikhil, J.M. Rehg, Y. Angelov, A. Paul, S. Adhikari, K. Mackenzie, N. Harel, K. Knobe. "Stampede: A Cluster Programming Middleware for Interactive Stream-oriented Applications". IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, November 2003.

Nissim Harel, Hasnain Mandviwalla, Kathleen Knobe, Umakishore Ramachandran. "Methods of Memory Optimizations in Streaming Applications", the 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), September 2007

Nissim Harel, Hasnain Mandviwala, Umakisore Ramachandran, Kathleen Knobe. "Use of Dependency Information for Memory Optimizations in Distributed Streaming Applications", 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 2007

Spencer Rugaber, Nissim Harel. Srihari Govindharaj, and Dean Jerding. "Problems Modeling Web Sites and User Behavior". 8th IEEE Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2006), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 23-24, 2006

Hasnain A. Mandviwala, Nissim Harel, Umakishore Ramachandran, and Kathleen Knobe. "Adaptive Resource Utilization via Feedback Control for Streaming Applications". 19th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2005

Paul Arnab, Nissim Harel, Sameer Adhikari, Bikash Agarwalla, Umakishore Ramachandran, and Kenneth Mackenzie. "Performance Study of a Cluster Runtime System for Dynamic Interactive Stream-oriented Applications". 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Austin, Texas, March 2003

N. Harel, H. Mandviwala, K. Knobe, and U. Ramachandran. "Dead Timestamp Identification in Stampede". The 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-02), August 2002

H. Mandviwala, N. Harel, K. Knobe, and U. Ramachandran. "A Comparative Study of Stampede Garbage Collection Algorithms". 15th Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, July 2002

N. Harel, V. Vellanki, A. Chervenak, G. Abowd, and U. Ramachandran. "Workload of a Media-Enhanced Classroom Server". 2nd Workshop on Workload Characterization, October 1999

CTO, ClickFox, Atlanta GA

Software developer, Scitex, Herzelia, Israel