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George Hripcsak, Director
Henning Schulzrinne, Co-Director

Soumitra Sengupta, Co-Director

Vincent P. Tomaselli, Deputy Director

Paul M. Goldfarb, New Business and Marketing

Albert M. Lai, Assistant Clinical Director

Soumitra Sengupta, Ph.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Information Security Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Information Security Officer, Columbia University Medical Center

Sen is the Information Security Officer at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and the Information Security Officer for Columbia University Medical Center. His research interests are in distributed systems, their monitoring, management, and security aspects, and their application in a health care environment. He is involved in the architectural design and engineering concerns of building large, functioning systems over heterogeneous platforms and protocols.  Sen holds a BE from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Electrical and Electronics Engineering; Pilani, India) and an MS and PhD (Computer Science) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Prior to his current roles he was an Assistant Systems Analyst & Programmer for Tata Consultancy Services (Bombay, India), and Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science and Center for Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York.  He was also the Clinical Information Architect at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia); as well as an Associate Research Professor, Department of Computer Medicine, George Washington University (Washington DC).

Sen is or has been a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Computer Society), and the American Medical Informatics Association. He currently serves at the national level on the CSTB/NRC study on Authentication Technologies and their Privacy Implications, National Academy of Sciences. In 1980 he was awarded the Silver Medal, BITS (Pilani, India).

Sen was previously associated with the Columbia CAT when it was known as the Center for High Performance Computing and Communications in Healthcare.