Yehoshua Perl, PhD

Dr. Perl received his Bachelors degree in Mathematics from Bar-Ilan University, and a Masters and PhD in computer science from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He emigrated to the US in the early 1980ís and climbed the academic ladder to the rank of Professor of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). At the time of his election to the College, Dr. Perl had been developing methods for organizing and visualizing complex data structure for more than 30 years, and in the mid-1990ís he began applying these to the biomedical domain. He founded the Medical Informatics Laboratory at NJIT, which evolved into the Structural Analysis of Ontologies Center, and has undertaken work which has contributed to vocabulary systems maintained within the Unified Medical Language System and the Systematized Nomeclature of Medicine (SNOMED). Dr. Perl has been an active contributor to national and international societies and scholarly meetings in computer science and informatics, with more than 80 journal and 60 conference proceedings articles, and an academic mentor whose students have gone on to their own productive careers as informatics faculty. These sustained professional achievements are recognized by his election to the College.