Dr. Kim L. Ong is a Technical Fellow within Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology sector.
He serves as the project manager for the National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB) Thesaurus Maintenance and Application Development Support Project.
Dr. Ong has more than 20 years of system engineering, software development and project management experience. He developed numerous applications for NCICB to maintain ontologies that are essential for NCICB to effectively provide bioinformatics support and integration services to NCI research initiatives.
Previously, Dr. Ong served as chief scientist for Northrop Grumman’s Healthcare Solutions business. He provided technical support to the Food & Drug Administration to streamline the new drug application approval process through standardization of nomenclatures. In addition, he invented a lexical variants highlighting engine capable of extracting indexing terms from unstructured narratives such as adverse event reports.
Dr. Ong has served as a lead investigator for the U.S. Air Force Medical Systems Analysis and Readiness Technologies Advanced Development projects. He applied analytical methods in estimating casualties caused by conventional and chemical weapons. Dr. Ong also developed simulation models for assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of medical systems in theaters, responding to wars and contingencies. He received a quality performance award for his contribution to a special project supporting operation Desert Storm during the first Gulf War.
Dr. Ong earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, and master’s degrees in industrial engineering and applied statistics, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.
Dr. Ong’s Ph.D. dissertation, “Approximating Nonstationary Multivariate Queuing Models,” placed second in the national competition for the 1985 Institutes of Industrial Engineering doctoral dissertation award.
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