Michael Lawley
Principal Research Scientist, Project Leader (Health Information Environment)
Contact
Level 5
UQ Health Sciences Building 901/16
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Herston, Queensland 4029
Australia
Science Area
- Semantic Data Management
Biography
Dr Michael Lawley is the project leader of the Health Information Environment research project at the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. This project is building novel applications to deal with the issues of accessing and analysing patient data from multiple data sources. These applications include database and data integration technology, use of clinical ontologies such as SNOMED CT for semantic integration and querying of data, analysis of complex data and the statistical analysis and pattern recognition of patterns in a patients health or disease journey.
Highlights of this work include:
* Snorocket, a very fast reasoner for description logic ontologies. Snorocket has been licensed by the IHTSDO as part of the tooling for their ongoing development of SNOMED CT, and is freely available as a Protege plugin.
* Snapper, an Eclipse-based application designed to support describing the meaning of terms in existing clinical terminologies using concepts or expressions from SNOMED CT to produce a semantic mapping. Snapper also provides extensive support for building and maintaining SNOMED CT Reference Sets.
* Minnow, a search and browsing tool for SNOMED CT and the Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT) based on the Snapper technology.
* Ontoserver, an ontology service providing search and reasoning (query) functions, including subsumption testing.
Michael's previous roles include two years as Senior Research Fellow with the Faculty of Information Technology at Queensland University of Technology, and twelve years at the Cooperative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC Pty Ltd), where he led the Pegamento Project's work exploring model-driven development techniques and prototyping languages and tools to support model-driven development. He has extensive expertise in software architecture and distributed systems and was a core contributor to the DSTC's work on the Object Management Group (OMG) Meta Object Facility 2.0 Query/View/Transformation (MOF QVT).
Michael completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Computer Science and a PhD at Griffith University.
Academic Qualifications
| 2000 | PhD Griffith University, Computer Science |
| 1988 | BSc(Hons) University of Melbourne, Computer Science |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2011-present | Adjunct Associate Professor, Griffith University |
| 2011-present | Member IHTSDO Technical Committee |
| 2011-present | Member Standards Australia IT014 |
| 2008-present | Project Leader/Team Leader, ICT Centre, CSIRO |
| 2006-2008 | Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology |
| 2005 | Consultant, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) |
| 1993-2005 | Senior Project Leader (since 2000), DSTC (CRC for Enterprise Distributed Systems) |
Student Supervision
| 2010- | B Koopman, PhD QUT. |
| 2008-2009 | B. Alhaqbani, PhD, QUT. |
| 2006- | M. Hibberd, PhD, QUT. |
| 2006-2009 | T. Hettel, PhD, QUT. |
| 2004-2005 | A. Metke, Master of Information Technology Studies, UQ. |
| 2003-2008 | D. Hearnden, PhD, UQ. |
| 2002 | D. Lewis, Honours Project, UQ. |
| 1999 | A. Wilkinson, Honours Project, UQ. |
| 1999 | J. Kappler, Honours Project, UQ. |
Science Citizenship
| 2011- | Programme Committee, Joint Workshop on Knowledge Evolution and Ontology Dynamics |
| 2008- | Programme Committee, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) |
| 2009-2010 | Programme Committee, IFIP Int. Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) |
| 2008 | Programme Committee, IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC) |
| 2006-2008 | W3C AC Rep for QUT. |
| 2004 | Chair, Model-Driven Evolution of Legacy Systems Workshop, Monterey |
| 2003 | Chair, Model-driven Approaches to Middleware Applications Development Workshop, Rio de Janeiro |
Top 10 Publications
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| Hansen, D.P. and Kemp, M.L. and Mills, S.R. and Mercer, M.A. and Frosdick, P.A. and Lawley, M.J. "Developing a national emergency department data reference set based on SNOMED CT", Medical Journal of Australia, Vol. 194/4, pp. S8-S10, 2011 |
| Nguyen, A.N. and Lawley, M.J. and Hansen, D.P. and Bowman, R.V. and Clarke, B.E. and Duhig, E.E. and Colquist, S. "Symbolic rule-based classification of lung cancer stages from free-text pathology reports", Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Vol 17/4, 2010 |
| A. Nguyen, M.J. Lawley, D. Hansen, R. Bowman, S. Colquist, "Automated Metastasis Stage Classification for Lung Cancer Patients using Free Text Radiology Reports," in American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 November 2009 |
| M.J. Lawley, "Exploiting Fast Classification of SNOMED CT for Query and Integration of Health Data". Proc. 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Representation in Medicine (KR-MED), May 31st - June 2nd, 2008 |
| D. Hearnden and M.J. Lawley and K. Raymond, "Incremental Model Transformation for the Evolution of Model-Driven Systems", Proc. MoDELS, LNCS Vol. 4199, pp. 321-335, Oct. 2006. |
| A. Gerber and M.J. Lawley and K. Raymond and J. Steel and A. Wood, "Transformation: The Missing Link of MDA", Proc. ICGT, LNCS Vol. 2505, pp. 90-105, Oct. 2002. |
| M.J. Lawley and J. Steel, "Practical Declarative Model Transformation With Tefkat", Satellite Events at the MoDELS 2005 Conference, LNCS Vol. 3844, Oct. 2005. |
| K. Duddy and A. Gerber and M.J. Lawley and K. Raymond and J. Steel, "Declarative Transformation for Object-Oriented Models", in "Transformation of Knowledge, Information, and Data: Theory and Applications", ed. P. Van Bommel, 2005, ISBN 1-59140-527-0. |
| R.M. Colomb and A. Gerber and M.J. Lawley, "Issues in Mapping Metamodels in the Ontology Development Metamodel", Proc. Model-Driven Semantic Web, Sept. 2004. |
| L. Grunske and L. Geiger and M.J. Lawley, "A graphical specification of model transformations with triple graph grammars", Proc. European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications, Nov. 2005. |
Number of citations
| ISI | 79 |
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| Google Scholar | 755 |