Curriculum Vitae

Jonathan P. Grady, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Thomas College
180 West River Road
Waterville, ME 04901
Office: AL-220
Phone: 207.859.1373
Email: gradyj@thomas.edu

Education

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Apr, 2013
  • Ph.D., Information Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
May, 2001
  • M.S. Electronic Commerce
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
May, 1997
  • B.A., Economics & Business Administration
  • Magna Cum Laude, with Honors

Teaching Experience

Thomas College, Waterville, ME
Fall 2013 – present
  • Title: Assistant Professor, Computer Science
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  • Undergraduate Courses Taught:
    • CS115 – Introduction to Computer Applications
    • CS119 – Introduction to Systems Engineering
    • CS140 – Web Design
    • CS175 – Introduction to Programming Logic & Design
    • CS216 – Data Structures & Algorithms
    • CS218 – Java Programming
    • CS225 – C#.NET Programming
    • CS245 – Object-Oriented Programming with C++
    • CS265 – Mobile & eBusiness Technologies
    • CS316 – Graphics & User Interfaces
    • CS330 – Computer Design & Architecture
    • CS345 – Data Communications
    • CS355 – Business Application Development
    • CS420 – Distributed Systems & Cloud Computing
    • IS421 – Enterprise Architecture
    • IS422 – Systems Analysis & Design
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  • Graduate Courses Taught:
    • CY613 – Cyber Data Analytics
    • CY644 – Cyber Engineering
University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 - 2013
  • Title: Adjunct Instructor
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  • Graduate Course Taught:
    • INFSCI 2955 - Web Engineering, Summers 2007 - 2009 & 2012
  • Undergraduate Course Taught:
    • INFSCI 1017 - Implementation of Info. Systems, Spring 2013
  • Title: Teaching Assistant
    • INFSCI 2730 - E-Business, Spring 2012.
    • INFSCI 2560 - Web Standards & Technologies, Fall 2011.

Publications

  • Rotondi, A., Grady, J., Hanusa, B., Haas, G., Spring, M., Abebe, K., Luther, J., Gurklis, J. (2021) Key variables for effective eHealth designs for individuals with and without mental health disorders: 2^12-4 Fractional Factorial Experiment. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23(3).
  • Steel, J., Geller, D., Kim, K., Butterfield, L., Spring, M., Grady, J., Sun, W., Marsh, W., Antoni, M., Dew, M., Helgeson, V., Schulz, R., Tsung, A. (2016) Web-based collaborative care intervention to manage cancer-related symptoms in the palliative care setting. Cancer. 122(8), 1270-82.
  • Rotondi, A., Spring, M., Grady, J., Simpson, R., Luther, J., Abebe, K., Hanusa, B., and Haas, G. (2012) Use of a fractional factorial experiment to assess the e-health technology design needs of persons with dual diagnoses. Journal of Dual Diagnosis. 8(4), 277-282.
  • He, D., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., Ahn, J., Yang, Y., Rogati, M. (2011) EDIE: An evaluation dataset for task-based information exploration. In: Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation: DARPA Global Autonomous Language Exploitation. Springer, New York.
  • Steel, J., Geller, D.A., Tsung, A., Marsh, J.W., Dew, M.A., Spring, M., Grady, J., Likumahuwa, S., Dunlavy, A., Youssef, M., Antoni, M., Butterfield, L.H., Schulz, R., Day, R., Helgeson, V., Kim, K.H., Gamblin, T.C. (2011) Randomized controlled trial of a collaborative care intervention to manage cancer-related symptoms: lessons learned. Clinical Trials. 8(3). 298-310.
  • Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., He, D. (2010) Semantic annotation based exploratory search for information analysts. Information Processing and Management. 46(4), 383-402.
  • Steel, J.L., Geller, D.A., Gemmell, L., Spring, M.B., Grady, J., Antoni, M., Likumahuwa, S., Helgeson, V., Day, R., Shulz, R., and Gamblin, T. C. (2009) Spiritual growth and decline at the end of life (Symposium) 117th Annual APA Conference, Toronto, CA, August 7-8, 2009.
  • Steel, J.L., Gemmell, L., Geller, D.A., Spring, M.B., Antoni, M., Likumahuwa, S., Hoffman, K., Day, R., Helgeson, V., Grady, J., Dunlavy, A., Hammond, J., and Gamblin, T. C. (2009) Randomized controlled trials in the context of behavioral medicine (Paper/Poster) 117th Annual APA Conference, Toronto, CA, August 7-8, 2009.
  • Grady, J., Spring, M., Rotondi, A. (2009) Designing medical resarch websites. In A. Dwivedi (ed.): Handbook of Research on Information Technology Management and Clinical Data Administration in Healthcare. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. 852-869.
  • Yue, Z., Harpale, A., He, D., Grady, J., Lin, Y., Walker, J., Gopal, S., Yang. Y. (2009) "CiteEval for Evaluating Personalized Social Web Search." The future of information retrieval evaluation: A workshop at ACM SIGIR.
  • He, D., Brusilovsky, P. Ahn, J., Grady, J., Farzan, R., Peng, Y., Yang, Y., Rogati. M. (2008) An evaluation of adaptive filtering in the context of realistic task-based information exploration. Information Processing and Management. 44(2). 511-533.
  • Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., He, D., Grady, J., and Li, Q. (2008) Personalized web exploration with task models. In Proceedings of the 17th international Conference on World Wide Web (Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008). 1-10.
  • He, D., Brusiloviksy, P., Grady, J., Li, Q., and Ahn, J. (2007) How up-to-date should it be? The value of instant profiling and adaptation in information filtering. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM international Conference on Web intelligence (November 02 - 05, 2007). 699-705.
  • Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., He, D., and Syn, S. Y. (2007) Open user profiles for adaptive news systems: help or harm?. In Proceedings of the 16th international Conference on World Wide Web (Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 08-12, 2007). 11-20
  • Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., Spring, M., and Lee, C.-H. (2006) What should be visualized? Faculty perception of priority topics for program visualization. SIGCSE Bulletin. 38(2). 44-48.

Presentations

  • "WMMD, a Tool for Construction of Medical Research Websites," Sara Fine Institute Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA. May 4, 2007.

Research Projects

Accessible Website Design for Cognitive Impairment
(Dept. of Veteran Affairs) - Research Assistant
2008-2011
Computer-Mediated Strategies for Symptom Management
(NIH) - Research Assistant
2006-2010
User-centric, Adaptive and Collaborative Information Filtering
(NSF) - Research Assistant
2007-2009
GALE Project: Adaptive, Robust, and Distilled Information Access
(DARPA) - Research Assistant
2006-2009
Webmaster, MD: Medical Intervention Research Website Generation Tool
(Dean's Entrepreneurial Fund, Univ. of Pittsburgh) - Research Assistant
2005-2007
Family-based Stress Management for Childhood Cancer
(NCI) - Research Assistant
2005-2007
Collaborative Research: Adaptive Explanatory Visualization for Learning Programming Concepts
(NSF) - Research Assistant
2005-2006

Professional & Honor Society Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery

Phi Beta Kappa - Tau Chapter of Pennsylvania

Service Activities

Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee
2023 – present
Member, Faculty Affairs Committee
2020 – present
Advisor, Chess Club
2024 – present
Advisor, League of Legends Club
2017 – 2020
Chair, Academic Computing Committee
2016 – 2017
Member, Academic Computing Committee
2014 – 2016
Member, Faculty Enrollment Committee
2014 – 2016
Volunteer, Thomas Cup
2015 – 2024

Honors & Awards

Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Summer 2012
Allen Kent Award, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
2012
GSA/GSR Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh
2008 – 2012
Teaching Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Summer 2008
GSA/GSR Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh
2005 – 2008

Related Employment

OnTV Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Jun, 2001 – May, 2003
  • Title: Director of Production
Bloomberg, L.P., Princeton, NJ
Jun, 1997 – Apr, 2000
  • Title: Data Analyst