James Geller, PhD

James Geller, PhD

James Geller, PhD is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research of the Ying Wu College of Computing at NJIT. He co-founded the Structural Analysis of Biomedical Ontologies Center (SABOC) at the Department of Computer Science at NJIT. Dr. Geller is a founding member of the BRAID Consortium of Harvey Mudd College and is actively involved in bringing women and minorities into the computing field. He is also an investigator on the NJ ACTS program. He has published over 190 journal and conference papers and 14 book chapters in medical informatics, semantic web technology, object-oriented database modeling, knowledge representation, etc.  Dr. Geller has been a Co-Principal Investigator on several federal grants from NIH on auditing methods, abstraction algorithms, software tools for important medical terminology systems such as the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), and family-based quality assurance for Biomedical Ontologies.  From 2012-2015 he was Co-PI on an NSF grant for teaching Cyber Security (iSECURE). Currently, he is co-PI on an NSF grant on “Increasing Urban Youth Participation in Computing through Mentorship and Coding Resources.”