He is an assistant professor in the University of Utah Department of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Meystre has a medical training and background, with graduate education and experience in biomedical informatics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). He has developed and evaluated NLP systems for clinical practice and for research, and led several projects applying NLP to clinical text for automatic text de-identification, or clinical information extraction.

He is the associate director of the University of Utah Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI). He has extensive experience in software project management and moving university technology to the commercial market. Dr. Jones has led the creation of several companies based on SCI Institute and University of Utah research (e.g., Visual Influence, Inc. (now Numira Biosciences, Inc.), RayScale, LLC (purchased by Nvidia, Inc.), VisTrails, Inc.).

He is the Finance Director of the University of Utah School of Medicine and Hospital Department of Radiology, with extensive financial management experience.