Dr. McAuliffe has been at NIH since 1998 and is currently the Chief of the Scientific Application Services (SAS) section in the Office of Scientific Computing Services (OSCS). He provides computational and engineering expertise to a variety of clinical and biomedical informatics activities at NIH and is committed to supporting data sharing and making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). He leads the development of the Biomedical Research Informatics Computing System (BRICS) (http://brics.cit.nih.gov/) which is a comprehensive data informatics system designed to efficiently collect, validate, harmonize, and analyze research datasets. 

In addition, Dr. McAuliffe strives to advance and empower scientific imaging research in the NIH intramural program, to this end, SAS has created and continues the development of the successful Medical Image Processing Analysis and Visualization application (MIPAV: http://mipav.cit.nih.gov). MIPAV enables quantitative analysis and visualization of biomedical imaging modalities (from micro to macro) and is used by researchers at NIH and around the world. It’s open source and therefore freely available and has been downloaded over 100,000 times by researchers throughout the world.

Dr. McAuliffe earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Detroit, Masters in Software Engineering from Johns Hopkins, and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC. His current research interests include medical informatics and biomedical imaging specializing in segmentation, quantification, and image fusion.

Past Contributing Leadership

• Dr. Yang Fann, PhD