Contact

Gondy Leroy

School of Information Systems and Technology (ACB 222)

130 E. Ninth Street

Claremont, CA 91711

USA

Phone: (909) 621.8209

Fax: (909) 621.8564

Email: gondy.leroy@cgu.edu

Positions

Associate Professor,  2009 - present

School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, California

Extended Faculty, 2006 - present

Applied Women's Studies, Claremont Graduate University, California

Visiting Scholar, Oct/Nov 2006

National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda

Assistant Professor, 2003 - 2009

School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, California

Visiting Scholar, Summer 2003

National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda

Research Associate, 1998-2003

Artificial Intelligence Lab, The University of Arizona

Education

Ph.D. (Superior), Management Information Systems, 2003, The University of Arizona

M.S., Management Information Systems, 1999, The University of Arizona

Combined B.S. & M.S. (Cum Laude), Cognitive, Experimental Psychology, 1996, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium

Teaching

Claremont Graduate University (2003-current)

Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Discovery, Database Systems, Doctoral Seminar in Information Systems, Organizations as Information-Processing Systems (Introductory Course)

The University of Arizona (1999-2003)

Design, Usability, and Implementation of Interfaces, Dutch (101, 102, 201)

Research Interests

Intelligent Interfaces: Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction

Text Mining: Natural Language Processing and Data Mining

 ..... for Medical Informatics and E-Government

Intelligent Systems Lab (for up-to-date information and ongoing projects)

Research Grants

Principal Investigator (P.I.) with HyeKyeung Seung (California State University, Fullerton), Pilot Study to Evaluate Communication Software for Children with Autism, Allergan Foundation, $2,000, 2009-2010.

Principal Investigator (P.I.) with Brian Hilton (CGU) and June Hilton (Claremont High School), NCWIT, Seed Fund Award, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Increase Interest in Information Technology through an Environmental Project”, $15,000, 2009.

Principal Investigator (P.I.) with Gianluca De Leo (Old Dominion University), Microsoft Research, An Online Community for Teachers to Support, Observe, Collect and Evaluate Assisted Communication with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, $50,000, 2008.

Principal Investigator (P.I.) with James Cowie and Stephen Helmreich (New Mexico State University), National Science Foundation, SGER: U3 - Understanding User Understanding, $99,988, Sept 2007 - Aug 2008.

Principal Investigator (P.I.) with Gianluca De Leo (Old Dominion University), Microsoft Research, Using SmartPhones to Enable Interaction and Communication with Autistic Children, $149,000, 2007-2008.

Principal Investigator (P.I.), Edison International, Workshop for Women in IT - Emerging Leaders, $5,000, 2007.

Principal Investigator (P.I.) with Art Lee (Claremont McKenna College),  BLAIS Challenge Fund Award, Workshop: Women in IT - Emerging Leaders, $8,000 2006-2007.

Principal Investigator (P.I.), Fletcher Jones Foundation, "Unreported Crime Matters", $6,000, 2006-2007

Principal Investigator (P.I.) with Elizabeth Wood (City Of Hope National Cancer Center), National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, "Visualization of Consumer Health Information", $317,514, 2005-2007

Principal Investigator (P.I.), Verizon Foundation, “Improving Quality of Life for Autistic Children and Their Parents Through Modern Communication Devices”, $10,000, 2005

Claremont Graduate University Infrastructure Grant, $3,000, 2005

Parson's Foundation, "Visualization to Help Consumers Read Health Information on the Internet", $3,000, 2004

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Selection, IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2009, Section 6: Knowledge Representation and Management, Keselman A, Smith CA, Divita G, Kim H, Browne AC, Leroy G, Zeng-Treitler Q., Consumer Health Concepts That Do Not Map to the UMLS: Where Do They Fit? , J Am Med Inform Assoc 2008 Jul-Aug;15(4):496-505.

Best Paper Award: T. Miller, G. Leroy, S. Chatterjee, J. Fan, and B. Thoms, "A Classifier to Evaluate Language Specificity in Medical Documents", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 2007.

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Women and Technology: Reversing the Trends of Attrition and Obtaining a Balance, Women's Studies (Submission deadline March 31, 2007)

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Decision Support in Medicine, Decision Support Systems (submission deadline October 15, 2004)

Darpa Young Investigator, Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO), 2003

Erasmus Scholarship Recipient, European Union, The University of Birmingham (U.K.), 1996

Invited Talks & Presentations

G. Leroy, Assisted Communication with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, The IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, Pasadena, July 12, 2009.

G. Leroy, PixTalk, Chapman University, Guest Presentation in the Assessment and IEP Development Course, Chapman University, Victorville, California, May 7, 2009.

G. Leroy, Technology Assisted Information and Communication Exchange, University of California - Irvine, November 7, 2008

G. Leroy, Information Technology for Information Exchange for Wellness and Health, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, October 03, 2008

G. Leroy, Health Information Understanding by Laymen", WISRD 2.0, University of Southern California, June 13, 2008

G. Leroy,  Women in IT, guest lecture in “Inclusion and Human Development in Education in a Diverse Society”, graduate course, School of Education (CGU),  April 15, 2008.

G. Leroy, G. De Leo, J. Fryer, An Online Community for Teachers to Support, Observe, Collect and Evaluate Assisted Communication with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders who use Smartphones as Communication Devices, Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, Rochester, New York, October 12 - 13, 2007.

G. Leroy, Semantic Graph Mining, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, November 17, 2006.

G. Leroy, Facilitating Understanding and Retention of Health Information, Microsoft eScience Workshop at The Johns Hopkins University, October 13 - 15, 2006

G. Leroy, Knowledge Discovery, CIO Roundtable, Claremont, CA, September 13, 2005

G. Leroy, Improving Quality of Life and Therapy for Autistic Children and their Caregivers through Modern Communication Devices, Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC), Phoenix, AZ, May 17, 2005

G. Leroy, Intelligent and Scalable Text and Data Mining Applications, DARPA - Information Processing Technology Office Conference, November 2003, Arlington, Virginia, 2003

Journal Publications

G. De Leo, C. Heins-Gonzales, P. Battagiri, G. Leroy, "A Smart-phone Application and a Companion Website for the Improvement of the Communication Skills of Children with Autism: Clinical Rationale, Technical Development and Preliminary Results", Journal of Medical Systems, Forthcoming.

A. Iriberri and G. Leroy, "A Life Cycle Perspective on Online Community Success", ACM Computing Surveys, 41 (2), Article 11, 2009.

A. Keselman, R. Logan, C. A. Smith,  G. Leroy, Q. Zeng-Treitler, "Developing Informatics Tools and Strategies for Consumer-centered Health Communication," Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), 15(4), 473-483, 2008.

A. Keselman, C. Arnott Smith, G. Divita, H. Kim, A. Browne, G. Leroy, Q. Zeng-Treitler, Consumer Health Concepts that do not Map to the UMLS: Where Do They Fit?, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA),  15(4), 496-505, 2008. (IMIA Yearbook 2009 Best Paper)

G. Leroy, T. Miller, G. Rosemblat, and A. Browne, "A Balanced Approach to Health Information Evaluation: A Vocabulary-based Naïve Bayes Classifier and Readability Formulas," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 59 (9), 1409-1419, 2008.

G. Leroy and T. C. Rindflesch, "Effects of Information and Machine Learning Algorithms on Word Sense Disambiguation with Small Datasets," International Journal of Medical Informatics, 74, 7-8, 573-585, 2005 .

G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Genescene: An Ontology-enhanced Integration of Linguistic and Co-occurrence based Relations in Biomedical Texts," Journal of the American Society for Information Systems and Technology (JASIST), 56 (5), 457-468, March 2005.

G. Leroy, A. Lally, and H. Chen. “The Use of Dynamic Contexts to Improve Casual Internet Searching,” ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM -TOIS), vol. 21, issue 3, pp 229-253, July 2003.

G. Leroy, H. Chen, and J. D. Martinez. “A Shallow Parser Based on Closed-Class Words to Capture Relations in Biomedical Text,” Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), vol. 36, pp 145-158, June 2003.

G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Meeting Medical Terminology Needs: The Ontology-enhanced Medical Concept Mapper," IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 5 (4), pp 261 – 270, December 2001.

Journal Publications - Editorial

G. Leroy, K. M. Tolle, L. Perkins, "Women and Technology: Reversing the Trends of Attrition and Obtaining a Balance", Women's Studies, 37, 173-175, 2008.

G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Introduction to the Special Issue on Decision Support in Medicine," Decision Support Systems, 43, 1203-1206, 2007.

Conference Proceedings

C. Gonzales, G. Leroy, and G. De Leo, "Requirements Engineering using Appreciative Inquiry for an Online Community of Caregivers of Children with Autism", 4th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 8-12, 2009.

G. Leroy,  S. Helmreich,  J.  Cowie,  T. Miller, W.  Zheng, "Evaluating Online Health Information: Beyond Readability Formulas," American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November, 2008. (Nominated for Distinguished Paper Award)

M. Kwak, W. Kang, G. Leroy,  and S. Chatterjee, "E-Transcript Web Services System Supporting Dynamic Conversion Between XML and EDI", 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2008 Toronto, Ontario, August 14-17, 2008

K. Al-Busaidi, L. Olfman, T. Ryan, G. Leroy, "The Motivators and Benefits of Sharing Knowledge to a KMS Repository in an Omani Organization", 10th IBIMA conference, Malaysia, June 30-July 2, 2008.(Best Paper Award)

G. De Leo and G. Leroy, "Smartphones to Facilitate Communication and Improve Social Skills of Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder: Special Education Teachers as Proxies", Seventh International Conference on Interaction Design & Children, June 11-13, 2008, Chicago, USA.

Chih Hao Ku, A. Iriberri, and G. Leroy, "Natural Language Processing and e-Government: Crime Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Data Sources", Ninth International Conference on Digital Government Research (DG.O 2008), May 18-21, Montreal, Canada.

Chih Hao Ku, A. Iriberri, and G. Leroy, "Crime Information Extraction from Police and Witness Narrative Reports, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security", May 12-13, 2008, Boston.

G. Leroy and G. De Leo, "Mobile Communication and Data Gathering Software for Autistic Children and Their Caregivers", Positive Design Conference, Monterrey, Mexico, April 2008.

G. Leroy, M. Fiszman, and T.C. Rindflesch, "The Impact of Directionality in Predications on Text Mining," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-41), January 2008. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)

A. Iriberri and G. Leroy "Natural Language Processing and e-Government: Extracting Reusable Crime Report Information", IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI-2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,  August 13-15, 2007

E. Sloane, G. Leroy and S. Sheetz, "An Integrated Social Actor and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Approach for Improved Electronic Health Record (EHR) Privacy and Confidentiality in the US National Healthcare Information Network (NHIN)", Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 9-12, 2007.

J. Gutierrez and G. Leroy, "Predicting Crime Reporting with Decision Trees and the National Crime Victimization Survey", Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 9-12, 2007.

K. Al-Busaidi, L. Olfman, T. Ryan, and G. Leroy, "Revealing the Antecedents and Benefits of KMS Use: An Exploratory Study in a Petroleum Company in Oman," Ninth International Conference on Decision Support Systems, 2007.

T. Miller, G. Leroy, S. Chatterjee, J. Fan, and B. Thoms, "A Classifier to Evaluate Language Specificity in Medical Documents", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40), January 2007. (Best Paper Award)

T. Miller, G. Leroy, and E. Wood, "Dynamic Generation of a Table of Contents with Consumer-Friendly Labels", American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 11-15, 2006.

G. Leroy, E. Eryilmaz, and B. T. Laroya, "Health Information Text Characteristics", American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 11-15, 2006. (Nominated for Distinguished Paper Award)

G. Leroy, A. Irmscher, and M.H. Charlop-Christy, "Data Mining Techniques to Study Therapy Success with Autistic Children", 2006 International Conference on Data Mining, 26 - 29 June, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, USA, 2006

T. Miller, G. Leroy, J. Huang, S. Chuang,  and M.H. Charlop-Christy, “Using a Digital Library of Images for Communication: Comparison of a Card-Based System to PDA Software”, First International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, February, Claremont, 2006.

A. Iriberri, G. Leroy, N. Garrett, "Reporting on-Campus Crime Online: User Intention to Use", Hawaii International Conference On Systems Sciences (HICSS), January, Hawaii, 2006.

G. Leroy and T. C. Rindflesch. "Using Symbolic Knowledge in the UMLS to Disambiguate Words in Small Datasets with a Naive Bayes Classifier," MedInfo, San Francisco, 2004.

G. Leroy, H. Chen, J. Martinez, S. Eggers, R. Falsey, K. Kislin, Z. Huang, J. Li, J. Xu, D. McDonald, and G. Ng. “Genescene: Biomedical Text and Data Mining,” presented at the Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), May 27-31, 2003, Houston, Texas.

G. Leroy and H. Chen, "Filling Preposition-based Templates to Capture Information from Medical Abstracts," presented at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), Kaua’i, pp 350-361, January 2002.

G. Leroy and H. Chen. “MedTextus: An Ontology-enhanced Medical Portal,” presented at the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), December 2002.

P. B. Lowry, H. W. Anderson, D. C. Wilson, G. Leroy, and L. Lin, "MIS Legitimacy and the Proposition of a New Multi-dimensional Model of MIS," presented at the 3rd Annual Conference of the Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS), Atlanta, GA 2000.

G. Leroy, K. M. Tolle, and H. Chen, "Customizable and Ontology-Enhanced Medical Information Retrieval Interfaces," presented at the IMIA WG6 Triennial Conference on Natural Language and Medical Concept Representation, Phoenix, Arizona, December, 1999.

G. d'Ydewalle, G. Leroy, and P. v. Diepen, "Using Peripheral Information in Processing Objects in Scenes," presented at the XXVI International Congress of Psychology, Montréal, Canada, 1996.

Book Chapters

C. Gonzales, G. Leroy, and G. De Leo, "Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technologies", Handbook of Research on Developments in e-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives, Eds., M. Manuela Cunha, Antonio Tavares and Ricardo Simoes, 2009. (ISBN: 978-1-61520-670-4)

J. Gutierez and G. Leroy, "Using Decision Trees to Predict Crime Reporting," in Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development,  Eds, J. Erickson and K. Siau, IGI Global, p. 132 - 145, November, 2008. (ISBN-13: 9781605661728)

G. Leroy, "Improving Health Literacy with Information Technology," in Encyclopaedia of Healthcare Information Systems, Ed., N. Wickramasinghe, Idea Group, Inc, 2008.

D. M. McDonald , H. Su, J. Xu, C.-J. Tseng, H. Chen, and G. Leroy, "Genepathway Text Mining and Visualization," in Medical Informatics: Advances in Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine, Eds. H. Chen, S. Fuller, and A. McCray, 2005.

Posters and Demonstrations

G. Leroy, S. Chuang, J. Huang, and M. Charlop-Christy, "Digital Libraries on Handhelds for Autistic Children," presented at the Fifth ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL-2005), June 7-11, 2005, Denver, Colorado.

G. Leroy, T. C. Rindflesch, B. Libbus, H. Kilicoglu, and H. Chen, "A Syntactic Parser with Semantic Filtering for Biomedical Text," Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2004.

G. Leroy, H. Chen, J. D. Martinez, S. Eggers, R. R. Falsey, K. L. Kislin, Z. Huang, J. Li, J. Xu, D. M. McDonald, and G. Ng. “Genescene: Biomedical Text and Data Mining, “ presented at the Third ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL-2003), May 27-31, 2003, Houston, Texas

B. Zhu, G. Leroy, H. Chen, and Y. Chen, "MedTextus: An Intelligent Web-Based Medical Meta-Search System," presented at the ACM and IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Portland, OR, 2002.

K. Tolle, G. Leroy, R. Sewell, Y. Fang, D. Roussinov, P. Z. Stavri, and C. Chen, "Medical Information Access for the New Millennium: UMLS-Enhanced Semantic Parsing and Personalized Medical Agent," presented at Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Berkeley, CA, 1999.

G. Leroy, W. Schaeken, and G. d’Ydewalle, “Working Memory and Validity, Content and Believability of Syllogisms,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Psychological Society, Brussels, May 10, 1996.

G. Leroy, and K. Lamberts, “Syllogism Solving Under Time Pressure,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Psychological Society, Brussels, May 10, 1996.

Other Publications

G. Leroy, G. De Leo, C. Heins-Gonzales, P. Battagiri, "An Online Community for Teachers to Support, Observe, Collect and Evaluate Assisted Communication with Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders who use Smartphones as Communication Devices", Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Washington, 2008.

G. Leroy and G. De Leo, "Using SmartPhones to Enable Interaction and Communication with Autistic Children", Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, Washington, 2007.

G. Leroy, J. Huang, S. Chuang, M.H. Charlop-Christy, "Non-Verbal Communication with Autistic Children using Digital Libraries", IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bulletin,  Online.

Press

Microsoft Research, Mobile Device Uses Images to Help Children with Autism Interact.[pdf]

Claremont Courier, CGU Project Merges Technology and the Environment by Landus Rigsby,  Saturday, February 7, 2009.[pdf]

Chronicle of Higher Education, The Wired Campus, January 30, 2008. [link]

CNN Interview, Women in IT,  April 2007, Headline News. Local Edition, aired May 2007 (10 times). [watch video]

Outreach

Chair, Workshop: Women in IT – Emerging Leaders 2007, at the Second International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST'07), Pasadena, CA, May 2007. Co-chairs: Cynthia LeRouge (St. Louis University), Arthur Lee (Claremont McKenna College). (Flyer and Posters with information on scholarships, programs and speakers)

Chair, Workshop:  Women in IT – Emerging Leaders 2006, at the First International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST'06), Claremont, CA, February 2006.

Conference Service

Program Committee, European Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (EuroISI), Copenhagen, Denmark, December 3 - 5, 2008

Co-Chair, Integrating the Digital Healthcare Enterprise - Minitrack, 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Learning from the Past and Charting the Future of the Discipline, Toronto, Ontario, 14-17 August 2008

Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI), Taipei, Taiwan, 2008, June 17-20.

Associate Editor, Information Systems Development - Track, 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Galway, Ireland, June 9 - 11, 2008.

Co-Chair, Integrating the Digital Healthcare Enterprise - Minitrack, 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Learning from the past & charting the future of the discipline, Toronto, Canada, August 14-17, 2007.

Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST),  Pasadena, 2007

Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI), New Jersey, 2007

Co-Chair, Integrating the Digital Healthcare Enterprise - Minitrack, 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Reaching New Heights, Keystone, Colorado, USA, August 9-12, 2007.

Co-Chair, Integrating the Digital Healthcare Enterprise - Minitrack, 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Connecting the Americas, Acapulco, Mexico, August 4-6, 2006.

Program Committee, Third Annual Kay-CGU Symposium, Pacific Edge E-Health Innovations: Linking Research, Practice and Policy to Benefit Consumers and Communities, December 1-2, 2006.

Scientific Review Committee, MEDNET - 11th Worldcongress on Internet in Medicine,  Toronto, Ontario, October 13-20, 2006

Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI), San Diego, 2006

Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST),  Claremont, 2006

Program Committee, First Workshop on the Science of the Artificial (WSA 2005), December 6-9, 2005, Taiwan.

Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI), Atlanta, Georgia, 2005

Other Professional Service

Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT, 2009-present.

Editorial Review Board, Journal of Database Management, 2003-present.

Reviewer for Bioinformatics, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Journal of Database Management, AMCIS, JASIST, IMIA Yearbook, Information Sciences, Decision Support Systems (DSS); IEEE Systems, Man, & Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering; Information Processing & Management; ACM & IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL); Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS); International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS);  Information Systems Research (ISR), 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003), Healthcom, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Other

Professional Memberships: ACL, ACM, AIS, AMIA, IEEE, AIS-SIGHEALTH

Language Proficiency: (fluent) English, Dutch, (basic) French, German, and Spanish

Occasional translator for the Pima Air & Space Museum (Tucson, AZ)