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November 1, 2012

"Argonne's Ravi Madduri Named 2013 D4 Lab Fellow"

Ravi Madduri, software engineer and project manager in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, has been named a D4 Lab Fellow.

The D4 Fellows Program selects a small group of University of Chicago students and professionals to take an interdisciplinary approach to solving some of the biggest problems in healthcare.  Madduri is one of 22 fellows selected for the inaugural program, a noncredit fellowship over the fall and winter quarter of 2012–2013. 

Activities consist of attending workshops, performing observational fieldwork in healthcare facilities, and working in teams to design and develop new concepts to address observed needs.

Madduri has played a major role in the Cancer Bio-Informatics Grid (caBIG), leading the architecture team toward a more flexible design that provides greater support for virtual organization management. He also has been actively involved in enabling the caBIG community to run jobs on supercomputer resources nationwide, and he currently is working with the Cardiovascular Research Grid team to develop information management services so that biomedical researchers can operate complex software applications on their own.

“I am excited about partnering with other fellows in this new program, seeing first-hand what the biomedical community is doing, how they do it, and what needs to be done to better manage diverse types of biomedical data,” said Madduri.

Madduri will work with a team to conduct user research in the field, analyze their findings, and build prototype business models to explore the most promising concepts. Faculty and mentors from the University of Chicago Medical Center and other experts in the field will provide feedback and help teams derive insights from their findings.

“The D4 Lab program covers the full range—from identifying a problem, planning field research, and conducting observational fieldwork, to evaluating ideas in terms of both business and technical viability,” said Madduri. “I see it as a superb opportunity for learning what is needed to make a real-world impact in healthcare.”