Dr. Christopher Doss

My education and expertise is in the field of computer engineering, which is essentially a marriage of computer science and electrical engineering. The computer science element has given me a great deal of experience designing software applications. The electrical engineering aspect has given me a great deal of experience designing hardware. Therefore, much of my research has been a marriage of these two fields.
I have been able to channel this into two primary research thrusts: mobile health and reconfigurable computing. My mobile health research focuses on the use of mobile applications, which can then be linked with smart devices in order to provide real-time interaction with health tools. This research also involves the use of internet of things applications. The applications also leverage legacy devices such as backend servers in order to create decoupled interactions for users. I am also interested in working with standards organizations, such as HL7, in order to further the reach of caregivers.
My research in reconfigurable computing focuses on aiding in the development of tools for mapping high-level languages to RC systems. This includes the development of a component library capable of implementing the arithmetic and logic functions found in computationally intense applications. This research also includes the development of new reconfigurable computing tools that will allow users to create customized workflows on the FPGA. The user will be able to connect computational tasks, where the results of a subtask can be utilized by subsequent subtasks. This paradigm is used within pipelines and within applications such as Galaxy. However, these tools do not leverage FPGA resources. These research foci both entail the use of cloud computing and high performance computing resources.