Jim Ong
Group Manager
Jim's group develops intelligent systems for education and training, automated scheduling,
automated system diagnosis, and computer-mediated team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Jim currently leads the development of the DataMontage™
data visualization system for reviewing patient histories and other multivariate, time-oriented data.
He also leads the development of the Task Tutor Toolki™ that enables rapid development of intelligent tutoring scenarios for technical training.
The Task Tutor Toolkit was included in Spinoff 2003, NASA’s catalog of successful spinoff technologies.
Previously, Jim led the development of the Acoustic Analysis Intelligent Tutoring System (AAITS)
for sonar technicians which was designated by the U.S. Navy as a Small Business Innovation Research success story.
Before joining Stottler Henke in 1999, Jim was the director of
product marketing at Belmont Research/PPD Informatics where he
led the commercialization of government-funded research to launch
the CrossGraphs® data visualization system and the TableTrans®
data transformation system. TableTrans was designated by the U.S. Department
of Commerce as a NIST Advanced Technology Program success story.
As a software project manager,
he led the development of the Clintrace® system for drug adverse event tracking and
reporting by pharmaceutical companies. He has also
served in applied research, software consulting, and systems
engineering roles at Bolt, Beranek and Newman and at AT&T Bell
Laboratories.
Jim received an MBA in marketing from Boston University, an MS
in computer science (artificial intelligence) from Yale University,
an MS in electrical engineering and computer science from the
University of California at Berkeley, and a BS in electrical
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
