Dr. Kurc's research seeks to develop informatics platforms that enable scalable processing and analysis of large volumes of high-resolution, high-throughput imaging data on high end computing systems, and that support management, query, and exploration of scientific datasets. He has a strong research and software development background in computer science and biomedical informatics, specializing in databases and high performance middleware systems for scientific applications. His work targets the requirements of basic and translational biomedical research projects that reference, analyze, and integrate large datasets. He has extensive experience collaborating with scientists and software developers in multi-disciplinary projects and have supervised postdoctoral researchers and software engineers for the design and implementation of integrated informatics platforms and high performance computing software.