Suresh Srinivasan's recent work deals with providing distributed access (via the Web) to the NLM's History of Medicine's collection of some 60,000 images. The application uses the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and HTML+ features such as forms and hidden fields. The paper describing this work was presented at the First International WWW Conference held in Geneva, May 25-27, 1994.
He has made recent contributions to the UMLS project's lexical variant (LV) modules. These include programs for lexical variant generation, string normalizing and word index generation. He has also designed a preliminary system for converting the UMLS data into ASN.1 format using NCBI's ASN toolkit. He is currently working on applications to use the Information Sources Map (ISM), one of the knowledge sources in the UMLS.
Past work with the Natural Language Systems (NLS) group involved the development of various components of the SPECIALIST system. These include tools to build and access the project lexicon as well as other knowledge sources such as Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, and NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Implementation was in C, Quintus Prolog, and a variety of other useful tools like perl.
He has been with Management Systems Designers, Inc. for over five years providing programming support to the Lister Hill Center at the National Library of Medicine. Before coming to work with the NLM, he had spent over two years working for General Sciences Corporation at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designing and validating protocols for deep space and low orbit communications.
He holds Master's degrees in Transportation Engineering and Operations Research and Statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.