Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Trained as a physicist (B.A.), computational scientist (M.Sc.) and astrophysicist (Ph.D.). Prior to joining Einstein faculty ran concurrent research programs in astrophysics (pulsars, brown dwarfs, virtual observatories), bioinformatics (data mining, genomics) and high performance computing (time series analysis, light scattering from particulates). Namesake is also known as minor planet 11451.