Dr. John Anderson

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Bern, ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, Medical Image Analysis Group

E-Mail
john.garciahenao@unibe.ch
Postal Address
University of Bern
ARTORG Center
Murtenstrasse 50
CH-3008 Bern

Research

My postdoctoral research is focused on the development of an effective radiology search engine based on artificial intelligence for the severity and chronicity prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019. My doctoral thesis was focused on the development of a green intelligence medical system for deploying medical diagnostic tools inside the hospitals with energy-efficient computing clusters. I have specialized in data-driven, representation learning and distributed deep learning methods applied in the development of risk prediction models with clinical outcomes, such as length of stay and mortality. I have experience in parallel and distributed programming techniques, and performance modeling to scale large scientific applications on heterogeneous system architecture as well as integrating multi-objective optimization techniques with automatic machine learning methods to reduce the model search space.

Publications

2020 - Good Practices on Parallel and Distributed Programming for Training Neural Networks, John A. García H., SC-CAMP, Supercomputing and Distributed Camp.

2020 - DiagnoseNET: Automatic Framework to Scale Neural Networks on Heterogeneous Systems Applied to Medical Diagnosis, John A. García H., Frédéric Precioso, Pascal Staccini and Michel Riveill, ICITCS2020 International Conference on IT Convergence and Security.

2018 - Scalability Analysis of Mini-Cluster Jetson TX2 for Training DNN Applied to Healthcare, John A. García H., Frédéric Precioso, Pascal Staccini and Michel Riveill, High Performance Computing, NVIDIA GTC Europe Conference.

2018 - Parallel and Distributed Processing for Unsupervised Patient Phenotype Representation, John A. García H., Frédéric Precioso, Pascal Staccini and Michel Riveill, Latin American High Performance Computing Conference, CARLA.

2016 - Energy Aware for Large-Scale Scientific Applications on Heterogeneous Architectures, John A. García H., Esteban Hernández B, Philippe O. A. Navaux and Carlos J. Barrios H., ACM Student Research Competition at Supercomputing, International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, SC16.

2016 - enerGyPU and enerGyPhi Monitor for Power Consumption and Performance Evaluation on Nvidia Tesla GPU and Intel Xeon Phi, John A. García H., Esteban Hernández B, Philippe O. A. Navaux and Carlos J. Barrios H., XIII Workshop the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, CCGRID.

2015 - eGPU for Monitoring Performance and Power Consumption on Multi-GPUs, John A. García H., Víctor Martínez, Philippe O. A. Navaux and Carlos J. Barrios. H., XIII Workshop de Processamento Paralelo e Distribuído, WSPPD.

Honors & Awards

2012 Meritorious Degree Work, Central University of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.

Teaching

2018 - 2019 Supervision of Master Thesis in Computer Science at EIT Digital Master School and Research Projects at Polytech Nice Sophia Engineering School, University of Côte d’Azur, France.
2014 - 2015 Teaching Assistant of Computer Architecture Course in Information Systems Engineering, Industrial University of Santander, Colombia.

Curriculum Vitae

2020 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Labex UCN@Sophia Grant, 'Green Artificial Intelligence to Automate Medical Diagnosis with Low Energy Consumption', University of Côte d’Azur, France.
2016 M.Sc. in Information Systems Engineering, UIS scholarship, 'Energy-Aware to Scale Large Scientific Applications on Heterogeneous Architectures', Industrial University of Santander, Colombia.
2015 Master Internship, 'Study of Parallel Programming Strategies for Mapping Task Dependencies on HPC Systems', Parallel and Distributed Processing Group, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
2012 B.E. in Information Systems Engineer, Meritorious Degree Work, 'A Grid Computing Implementation "G-Orion" to Support Research Projects', Central University of Valle del Cauca, Colombia.