PRESENT APPOINTMENTS
2008/08 – Professor, School of Computer
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
2007/01 – Director, BioInformatics
Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University
(NTU), Singapore
2005/11 – Visiting
Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), USA
2011/01 – Faculty
Fellow, Singapore-MIT Alliance for
Science and Technology (SMART), Singapore
2005/07 – Faculty
Fellow, Computation and Systems
Biology program, Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA), Singapore
1993/06 Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering,
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
1989/09 M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering,
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
1985/02 B.Sc. (First
Class Honors) Electronics and
Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka
WORK EXPERIENCE
2008/08 – Professor, School of Computer
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
2007/01 – Director, BioInformatics
Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
2005/11 – Visiting Professor, Department of Biological Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
2011/01 -- Faculty Fellow, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Science and Technology (SMART),
Singapore
2005/07 – Faculty Fellow,
Computation and Systems Biology (CSB) program, Singapore-MIT Alliance,
Singapore
2006/01 – 2007/12 Associate Scientist, Asia Pacific
Science and Technology Centre, Sun Microsystems Inc.
2002/02 – 2006/12
Deputy Director, BioInformatics Research
Center (BIRC), Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
2002/01 – 2003/12 Adjunct Associate Professor, Sri Lanka
Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka
2002/05 – 2002/06
Visiting Scientist, Laboratory of Advanced Brain Signal Processing,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
2001/01 – 2008/07 Associate Professor, School of Computer
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
Singapore
1999/01 – 2000/12 Assistant Professor, School of Computer
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
1999/01 – 2000/12 Visiting Lecturer, Department of
Electronics and Telecom. Engineering, University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka
1998/05 – 1998/12 Lecturer, School of Computer
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
1996/07 – 1998/04 Visiting Scientist, Max‑Planck‑Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany
1993/07 – 1996/06 Visiting Fellow, Child Psychiatry
Branch, National Institutes of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA
1993/01 – 1993/06 Research Assistant, Center for Document
Analysis and Recognition, University of Buffalo, USA
1990/07 – 1992/12 Research Assistant, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Buffalo, USA
1989/09 – 1990/06 Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, University of Buffalo, NY, USA
1987/07 – 1989/08 Fulbright Scholar, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Buffalo, NY, USA
1985/01 – 1987/08 Assistant Lecturer, Department of
Electronics and Telecom. Engineering, University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka
HONORS & AWARDS
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), 2012 - present
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering, USA, 2010 - present
Fellow, Singapore-MIT
Alliance for Science and Technology, 2011 - present
The Best Student
Paper Award, 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence
in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, (CIBCB 2010), Montreal (with Mr.
Piyush A. Mundra)
Most Cited Scientist in All Fields, Essential Science Indicators, Thompson ISI, 2006
Most Cited Scientist in Psychology/Psychiatry, Essential Science Indicators, Thompson ISI, 2006
Nominee:
The Best Paper Award, International Conference of Genomic
Informatics (GIW 2004), Japan (with Mr. Yang Xiao)
The Best
Overall Paper award, IEEE Symposium on Computational
Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2004), La Jolla
(with Dr. Ho Sy Loi)
The Best Student Paper
Award, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology (CIBCB 2004), La Jolla (with Dr. Ho Sy Loi)
Visiting Fellowship,
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, 1993 - 1996
Student Travel Fellowship,
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference, Colorado, 1991
Student Travel Award,
International Conference on Neural Networks for Target Recognition, Boston
University, 1991
Fulbright
Scholarship, USA, 1987 - 1989
Award for the Student
obtaining Highest Marks in Electrical and Electronics Subjects in B.Sc. (Eng.)
Final Examination, University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka, 1985
Award for the Best
Undergraduate in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri
Lanka, 1985
Total Publications
78 journal papers, 4 book chapters, 3 edited books, 2 book reviews, 7
edited proceedings, 164 refereed conference papers, 20 others
Citations (as of 7/3/2012)
|
Source |
Number of citations |
h – index |
|
Thompson ISI |
3503 |
27 |
|
Elsevier Scopus |
3621 |
26 |
|
Google Scholar |
5583 |
31 |
JOURNAL EDITORIAL
ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2008 - present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions
on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2007 - present
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 2009 - 2010
Editorial Board, International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine,
2010 - present
Editorial Board, Advances in
Bioinformatics, 2008 – present
Editorial Board, Neural Information Processing – Letters and
Reviews, 2003 - present
Guest Editor, Special Issue on
“Pattern discovery of life sciences data,”
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, Jul - Aug Issue, 2009
Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue on
“Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,” IEEE
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Apr-Jun Issue, 2007
Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue on “Softcomputing in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics”, Softcomputing, Feb Issue, 2006
CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Chair, Steering Committee, International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
(PRIB), 2009 - present
General Co-Chair, Fourth International Conference on Pattern Recognition in
Bioinformatics (PRIB 2009), Sheffield, UK
Program Chair, Third International Conference on Pattern Recognition in
Bioinformatics (PRIB 2008), Melbourne, Australia
Special Sessions Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2008), Hong
Kong, China
General Chair, Second IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in
Bioinformatics (PRIB 2007), Singapore
General Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology (CIBCB 2007), Hawaii, USA
Program Co-Chair, European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, and
Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBIO 2007), Valencia, Spain
Program Co-Chair, First International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2006), Hong Kong, China
Publicity Chair, Fourth European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Machine
Learning in Bioinformatics (EvoBIO 2006), Hungary
Publicity Co-Chair, 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational
Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2005), La
Jolla, USA
Advisory Committee, 12th International Conference on Neural Information
Processing ICONIP 2005, Taipei, Taiwan
Steering Committee, European Workshop on Evolutionary Computations and Machine Learning in
Biology (EvoBIO), 2005 - 2010
Steering Committee, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics &
Computational Biology(CIBCB), 2005 - 2010
Steering Committee, International Conference on Independent
Component Analysis (ICA), 2002 - 2005
Best Paper Award Committee, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP),
2002 - 2004
Program Co-Chair, 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP
2002), Singapore
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Last updated on 7/3/2012