Jerome Soller, PhD, President & CEO
Education
- Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Utah
- B.S. Electrical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
Summary of Experience
- Founder, President, and CEO of CogniTech Corporation since 1996
- More than thirty years of experience in Data Science, AI, ML, data mining, software systems architecture, software engineering, and Modeling & Simulation, including past employment at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the University of Utah, and NEC Corporation (NSF fellowship)
- Managed successful contracts or grants with customers, including BankruptcyWatch, Satori Association (done as an individual contractor), multiple US Department of Defense agencies, the Utah Department of Health, 3M Health Information Systems, DXC (formerly HP Enterprise Services), Northrop Grumman (previously Orbital ATK), a US National Laboratory, multiple institutes within US Health and Human Services (HHS), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the US National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Director, StemistryLab (non-profit organization applying AI to STEM education)
- Led or participated in State of Utah, national and international standards and best practices documentation for healthcare information systems / decision support, simulation, aerospace, and / or Responsible AI.
- Organized Utah regional meetings and interest groups for AI and Cognitive Science during the 1990s.
Detailed Professional Experience
| 2025 - present | Director, StemistryLab (non-profit organization applying AI to STEM education) |
| 1996 - present | President and CEO, CogniTech Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1996 - 1997 | Without Compensation Research Investigator, Salt Lake Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) |
| 1995 - 1997 | Limited Term Instructor, Division of Geriatrics, University of Utah |
| 1995 - 1996 | Research Investigator, Salt Lake VA GRECC |
| 1995 | Research Associate, Division of Human Development, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1992 - 1994 | Computer Research Engineer, Salt Lake VA GRECC |
| 1992 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellow, Bioelectronics Group, Exploratory Research Laboratory, Fundamental Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, Japan |
| 1991 - 1992 | Programmer / Analyst, Department of Veterans Affairs Information Systems Center, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 1991 | Programmer, Division of Human Development and Aging, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1990 | Programmer, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1990 - 1991 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1989 | Engineer, Research and Development Division, H.M. Surchin, Deer Park, N.Y. |
| 1987 | Quality Control, Switching Power, Inc. Ronkonkoma, N.Y. |
Standards and Conference Leadership Activities
| Contributor to Multiple Playbook and Best Practices Documents / Taskgroups | Four University of Utah Responsible AI (RAI) Initiative Working Groups: Education, Policy, Infrastructure, and Frameworks | 2025 - present |
| Led Development of Web Services Standards | National Emergency Medical Services Information Systems (NEMSIS) | 2010 - 2014 |
| Contributor to Multiple Simulation Standards | Simulation Systems Information Society (SISO) | 2002 - 2005 |
| Contributor to Healthcare Decision Support Systems Standards | Health Level 7 (HL7) | 1996 - 2002 |
| Leader of Effort to Create Health Data Interpretation Facility (HDIF) Standard | CORBAmed, Object Management Group | 1998 - 2000 |
| Moderator, Interface and Knowledge Representation Standards Track | 2nd Annual Real-time Network-based Clinical Decision Support Systems Workshop, San Diego | 1997 |
| Moderator | Software Architectures Track, 1st Annual Real-time Network- based Clinical Decision Support Systems Workshop, Boston | 1996 |
| Computer Science member | Multiple VA taskgroups focused on electronic patient records: VA Treatment Record, Interdisciplinary Patient Assessment, Physical History and Physical | 1995 - 1996 |
| Associate Chairman | VA Real-time Decision Support Systems Workgroup | 1995 - 1996 |
| Associate Chairman | VA Real-time Decision Support Systems Workgroup | 1995 - 1996 |
| Chairman | Cognitive Science Executive Committee, University of Utah | 1995 - 1996 |
| Chairman | 3rd Annual Utah Workshop on the Applications of Intelligent and Adaptive Systems, Seventh Annual Joint Services Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, UT | 1995 |
| Ex-officio (nonvoting) Computer Science and Engineering Representative | VA's Chiefs of Staff / NAVACOS Council on Information Processing. Voting members of this committee are composed of representative medical chiefs of staff from the 171 VA Medical Centers | 1995 |
| Member | Air Force Computer Science and Technology Working Group and Its Associated Artificial Intelligence Focal Group | 1994 - 1996 |
| Director | University of Utah Cognitive Science Discussion Group | 1990 - 1994 |
| Co-chairman (with Dale Sanders of TRW) | 2nd Annual Workshop on the Applications of Intelligent and Adaptive System, Sixth Annual Joint Services Software Technology Conference, Salt Lake City, UT | 1994 |
| Chairman | 1st Annual Utah Workshop on the Applications of Intelligent and Adaptive Systems, Salt Lake City, UT | 1993 |
| Director | University of Utah Neural Network Research Group Meetings | 1992 - 1993 |
Representation Oral Presentation
Representative Publications
Conference Papers
- Soller, J. Big Data Technologies to Enable Condition Based Maintenance of Motor and Missile System, Joint Army-Navy-NASA-AF (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting, December, 2016.
- Soller, J. and Johnson, M. Data Mining for IMLM DAAS Program, Joint Army-Navy-NASA-AF (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting, 2014.
- Soller, J., Johnson, M., and Gray, R. A Service-Oriented Architecture for Integrated Vehicle Health Management, Joint Army-Navy-NASA-AF (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting, 2008.
- Soller, J, Johnson, M., and Jones, M. An Integrated Software Environment for Service Life Modeling and Prediction, Joint Army-Navy-NASA-AF (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting, 2007.
- Soller, J.B., Jones, M., and DuBow, J., Software Architecture for Integrated Test & Evaluation of Chemical/Biological Sensors, The Proceedings of the 2002 Spring Symposium, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, IEEE, 2002.
- Duncan, W., Hayes, P., and Soller, J.B.,Web Portal for Virtual ATR Test and Evaluation, The Proceedings of the 2002 Spring Symposium, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, IEEE, 2002.
- Soller, J.B., Moore, S., Jones, M., DuBow, J., and Jeraj, J., The Role of Dynamic Modeling in Simulation-Based Acquisition, The Proceedings of the 2001 Fall Symposium, Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization, IEEE, 2001.
- Salzberg, A.M., Salzberg, D., Salzberg C., Soller, J., Stokes, R., Mariano, T., Kenny, E., Feulner, D.M., Kephart, P., Schamal, P. (1998, May). CalcuDos: A Real-time Decision Support System for Antibiotics. Proceedings of the Towards an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) '98 Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
- Soller, J. B. and Stenger, F. (1995, April). Regularized Sinc Tensor Product Networks, Machines That Learn Workshop Abstracts. Soller, J. B. (1995, April). The Integration of Real-time Decision Support with the VA's Legacy Information System, Workshop on the Applications of Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Booklet, Seventh Annual Joint Services Software Technology Conference.
- Soller, J. B. and Stenger, F. (1994, December). The Sinc Tensor Product Network and Nonlinear Signal Processing. Neural Information Processing Systems, Workshop on Nonlinear Signal Processing with Time Delay Connections. Denver: NIPS.
- Soller, J. B. (1994, May). Artificial Intelligence Research, Development, and Applications at the University of Utah. Air Force Computer Science and Technology Working Group Meeting: Artificial Intelligence Use in the Air Force. Hill Air Force Base: Air Force Software Technology Support Center.
- Soller, J. B., Fehlauer, C. S., Booth, H. G., Erickson, J., Midgley, B., and Graves, J. R. (1994, May). Integrating a Pen-Based Nursing Information System With the Development of Decision Support Tools. In 1994 American Medical Informatics Association Spring Congress Abstracts (pg. 85). San Francisco: American Medical Informatics Association.
- Fehlauer, C. S., Booth, H. G., Soller, J. B., and Graves, J. R. (1994, May). Use of Mobile Pen-Based Computers in Clinical Research. In 1994 American Medical Informatics Association Spring Congress Abstracts (pg. 85). San Francisco: American Medical Informatics Association.
- Cotter, N. E., Guillerm, T. Soller, J. B., and Conwell, P. (1991, July). Prejudicial Searches and the Pole Balancer. Proceedings of International Journal Conference on Neural Networks. Seattle: IEEE.
Standards Documents
- Jerome Soller, Web Services Interface for NEMSIS Standard
- CogniTech Corporation, Concept Five Technologies, Hitachi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Theragraphics. (1999, October). (2nd) Interim Revised HDIF Submission
- CogniTech Corporation, Concept Five Technologies, Hitachi, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Theragraphics. (1999, August). Interim Revised HDIF Submission.
- Soller, J.B., Jones, T.Y., Stokes, R.Q. (1998, August). CogniTech Initial Submission to OMG Healthcare Data Interpretation Facility (HDIF) RFP.
- Soller, J.B. (1997, December). The CogniTech/University of Utah Response to the CORBAmed RFI on Healthcare Decision Support Systems.
Journal and Magazine Publications
- Soller, J. B., Clingenpeel, J., Hayes Jr., P.W., Muday, M., Larsen, B., and Jones, T. (1999, January). Real-World Java Development Experiences: A Background Data Collection System. Crosstalk (Refereed software journal for Department of Defense), Air Force Software Technology Support Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
- Soller, J. B. (1999, January). Implementing a Web-based Decision Support System. VisualAge Developer Domain Newsletter, IBM, Atlanta.
- Soller, J. B. (1998, November). Technology for a Web-Based Decision Support System. VisualAge Developer Domain Newsletter, IBM, Atlanta.
- Abolnik, I. Z., Kithas, P. A., McDonnald, J. J., Soller, J. B., Izrailevsky, Y. A., Granger, D. L. (1998, December, month needs to be verified). Comparison of Oral and Tympanic Temperatures in a Veterans Administration (V. A.) Outpatient Clinic. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Department of Veterans Affairs, Mississippi.
- Gillis, P. A., Booth, H., Graves, J. R., Fehlauer, C. S., and Soller, J. B. (1994). Translating Traditional System Development Principles into Process for Designing Clinical Information Systems. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care: Nursing and Technology Assessment Issue.
Books, Government Reports, and Dissertations
- Soller, J. B., Fehlauer, C. S., Graves, J. R., Booth, H. G., Gillis, P. A., and Elmer, S. Salt Lake VA GRECC. The Patient Assessment Tool (PAT) Nursing Information System, 1995 (An internal VA booklet, which facilitated national VA involvement in the Interdisciplinary Patient Assessment Tool project.)
- Soller, J. B. (1994, December). The Automated Detection of Delirium. Ph.D. Dissertation. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Department of Computer Science.