Research Interests

Since 1986, Dr. Long has been a Principal Research Associate at MIT, working for Professor Peter Szolovits on the development of the Heart Failure Program and the application of other AI methodologies to problems in cardiology.

His primary research interest addresses the development of a program to help physicians reason about the diagnosis and management of patients in heart failure. This project is being developed in collaboration with three cardiologists at Tufts-New England Medical Center. Another research project is a program to give advice in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit on the management of ventricular arrhythmias. This program takes heart beat classifications from an arrhythmia monitor attached to the patient, information about the current drug regimen, and clinical information about the patient, and provides assessments and advice for adjusting the anti-arrhythmia therapy. This project is a collaboration between MIT, physicians and researchers at University Hospital, and engineers at Hewlett-Packard.

Dr. Long earned a MS, an EE, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.