I am currently an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. I am also the Assistant Clinical Director of the Center for Advanced Information Management. My current research is in temporal reasoning and home telemedicine.

I received my PhD in February 2007 from the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the Columbia University Medical Center. I defended my dissertation, A Remote Training Approach for Teaching Seniors to Use a Telehealth System, "with distinction." This research was conducted in conjunction with and implemented in the IDEATel project.

I received my BS in Computer Science, Systems Track at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science in May 2000. I also received my MS in Computer Science from Columbia in May 2001. While working on my masters, I did research in thin-client computing over Internet2 with the Network Computing Lab. In addition, I used to be a Computer Consultant at Columbia University's Academic Information Systems (now CUIT), in the Academic Technologies Group.

The REmote Patient in a Telemedicine Architecture (REPETE)

Albert M. Lai, Justin B. Starren, David R. Kaufman, Eneida A. Mendonca, Walter Palmas, Jason Nieh, and Steven Shea for the IDEATel Consortium, Telemedicine and e-Health. 2008;14(5).

REPETE2: A Next Generation Home Telemedicine Architecture

Albert M. Lai, Jason Nieh, and Justin B. Starren for the IDEATel Consortium, Abstract in Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2007 Annual Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 10-14, 2007.

Training Digital Divide Seniors to use a Telehealth System: A Remote Training Approach

Albert M. Lai, David Kaufman, and Justin B. Starren for the IDEATel Consortium, Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2006 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 11-15, 2006.

On the Performance of Wide-Area Thin-Client Computing

Albert M. Lai and Jason Nieh, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 24(2), May 2006, pp. 175-209.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1132026.1132029

A Novel Solution for Remote Training of Home Telemedicine Patients

Albert M. Lai, Justin Starren, and Steven Shea, Proceedings of the American Telemedicine Association Eleventh Annual Meeting & Exposition (ATA 2006), San Diego, CA, May 7-10, 2006, p. 213.

Architecture for Remote Training of Home Telemedicine Patients

Albert M. Lai, Justin B. Starren, and Steven Shea for the IDEATel Consortium, Abstract in Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2005 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, October 22-26, 2005. (poster)

Web Content Delivery Using Thin-Client Computing

Albert M. Lai and Jason Nieh, book chapter in "Web Content Delivery (Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies Book Series)," edited by S. T. Chanson, X. Tang, J. Xu, Springer, August 2005.

Remote Display Performance for Wireless Heathcare Computing

Albert Max Lai, Jason Nieh, Andrew Laine, and Justin Starren, Proceedings of the Eleventh World Conference on Medical Informatics (Medinfo 2004), San Francisco, CA, September 7-11, 2004, pp. 1438-42.

Improving Web Browsing on Wireless PDAs Using Thin-Client Computing

Albert M. Lai, Jason Nieh, Bhagyashree Bohra, Vijayarka Nandikonda, Abhishek P. Surana, and Suchita Varshneya, Proceedings of the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2004), New York, NY, May 17-22, 2004, pp. 143-154.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/988672.988692

Thin Client Performance for Remote 3-D Image Display

Albert Lai, Jason Nieh, Andrew Laine, and Justin Starren, Abstract in Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2003 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 8-12, 2003, p. 904. (poster)

Limits of Wide-Area Thin-Client Computing

Albert Lai and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2002), Marina del Rey, CA, June 2002, pp. 228-239.
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/511334.511363

Albert M. Lai
Department of Biomedical Informatics
622 West 168th St.
Vanderbilt Clinic, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10032
T: (212) 305-3815
F: (212) 305-3302
albert.lai@dbmi.columbia.edu