RESEARCH TEAM

“I am proud to be the advisor to my graduate students who have won 15 international awards and honors”

Professor Jagath Rajapakse (Principal Investigator)

AWARDS & HONORS

1. The Best Student Paper Award, 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CIBCB 2010), Montreal, Canada, May 2010 (Mr. Piyush Mundra)

2. Travel Grant, 2010 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CIBCB 2010), Montreal, Canada, May 2010 (Mr. Piyush Mundra)

3. Travel Award, European Conferences on Evolutionary Computations (EvoStar 09), Apr 2009, Tuebingen, Germany (Mr. Piyush Mundra)

4. Nominee, the Best Paper Award, Third IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2008), Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2008 (Mr. Piyush Mundra)

5. Travel Award, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, China (Ms. Kavuri Swathi Sri)

6. Travel Award, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong, China (Mr. Liu Song)

7. Runner-up, the Best Student Paper award,13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2006), Hong Kong, China, Nov 2006 (Mr. Arun Kumar)

8. Associate Member, Asia Pacific Science and Technology Centre (2005 – 2007), Sun Microsystems, USA (Dr. Juan Zhou)

9. Nominee, the Best Paper Award, the Fifteenth International Conference on Genomic Informatics (GIW 04), Yokohama, Japan (Mr. Yang Xaio).

10. The Best Student Paper Award, 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CIBCB04), La Jolla, CA, USA, Nov 2004 (Dr. Sy Loi Ho)

11. The Best Overall Paper Award, 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CIBCB04), La Jolla, USA, Nov 2004 (Dr. Sy Loi Ho).

12. The Young Scientist Award, Japanese Society of Bioinformatics, Tokyo, Dec 2004 (Dr. Sy Loi Ho).

13. The Young Scientist Award, Japanese Society of Bioinformatics, Tokyo, Dec 2004 (Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Minh).

14. Nominee, the Best Ph.D. Thesis, School of Computer Engineering, NTU, 2003. (Dr. Wei Lu)

15. Travel Grant, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference, Nov 2001. (Dr. Wei Lu)

RESEARCH STAFF

Dr. Piyush A. Mundra, Ph.D., Research Fellow

Dr. Cheng Jierong, Ph.D., Research Fellow

Dr. Vijay Raj Singh, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate (SMART)

Mr. Liu Song, M.Sc., Research Associate

Mr. D. A. Kasun Maduranga, B.Sc.(Eng.), Project Officer

PhD STUDENTS

Mr. Arun Kumar, M. Sc.: “Time-frequency analysis of functional MR images” (sole supervisor)

Mr. Zheng Bo, B.Sc.: “Probabilistic tractography of diffusion-weighted tensor images (DTI)” (sole supervisor)

Miss Iti Chaturvedi, M.Sc., “Mapping gene regulatory networks and protein-protein interaction networks” (sole supervisor)

Mr. Ng Yu-Jin, Alvin, M.Sc., “Cell mining of high content assays” (main supervisor)

Ms. Kavuri Swathi Sri, M.Sc., “Brain signal processing with ICA-R,” (sole supervisor)

Mr. Liu Song, M.Sc., “Cell segmentation in tissue images” (sole supervisor)

Mr. Xu Shuoyu, B.Sc., “Image informatics for liver fibrosis” (main supervisor)

Miss Shi Shiwen, B.Sc., “Protein sublocalization for identifying functions of cytoskeleton proteins” (main supervisor)

Mr. Fransiskus Xaverius Ivan, B.Sc., “Detecting core genes and networks involved in lung damage and repair in influenza” (main supervisor)

Miss Liu Wenting, M.Sc., “Fusion of biological data” (co-supervisor)

Mr. Dushan Nawoda Wadduwage, B.Sc.(Eng.), “Image informatics for microscopy images,” (main-supervisor)

Mr. Rasmi Ranjan Mahopathra, M.Sc., “Building large-scale biological networks,” (sole supervisor)

GROUP PHOTOS

BIRC Get-Together 2008

PRIB 2007

Convocation 2006

Team 2006

Team 2004

ALUMINAI

PhDs Completed

Ms Merlin Veronika James, Ph.D. (2012) “Cell profiling with dynamic features for high-throughput images”, Thesis defended.

Dr. Piyush Mundra, Ph.D. (05/2011)., “Gene and sample selection for cancer diagnosis”, Research Fellow, BioInformatics Research Center, Nanyang Technological University

Dr. Zhou Juan, Ph.D. (05/2008): “Modeling individual variability in functional MR Images using a fuzzy framework”, Research Assistant Professor, NUS-Duke Medical School, Singapore

Dr. Zheng Xuebin, Ph.D. (06/2007): “Neural systems modeling with graphical models”, Postdoctoral Fellow, Genomic Institute of Singapore

Dr. Sy Loi Ho, Ph.D. (10/2005): “Regulatory signal detection in genomic sequences”, Vice-Head, Department of Information System, Directorate for IT Application Promotion, Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communication, Hanoi

Dr. Ngoc Minh Nguyen, Ph.D. (10/2005): “Two stage support vector machines for protein secondary structure and solvent accessibility prediction”, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, BioInformatics Institute, Singapore,

Dr. Gayan. R. N. Meegama, Ph.D. (30/2004): “Active NURBS modeling of human brain surface”, Senior Lecturer. Department of Statistics and Computer Science, University of Jayawardanapura, Sri Lanka

Dr. Choong Leong Tan, Ph.D. (11/2003): “Hierarchical Markov random field models for restoration of MR images,” Senior Engineer, Mtouche Pte Ltd., Singapore

Dr. Wei Lu, Ph.D. (05/2003): “Constrained ICA and applications”, Senior Research Engineer, HP Research Labs, China

Masters’ (Research) Completed

Mr. K. Yang, M.Eng (06/2005): "Brain connectivity using ICA"

Mr. H. P. Ong, M.Eng. (07/2002): “Image analysis using fuzzy networks”

Mr. V. Venkatraman, M.Eng. (03/2002): “Neural network modeling of nonlinear response in fMRI”

Mr. J. Piyaratna, M.Eng. (02/2002): “Spatiotemporal modeling of functional MR images”

Post-docs Trained

2007 -- 2008 Dr. Zhou Juan

2006 -- 2008 Dr. Zheng Xuebin

2005 -- 2007 Dr. Ho Sy Loi

2005 – 2008 Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Minh

2005 -- 2006 Dr. Yang Wang

2004 – 2008 Dr. Ma Jainmin

2004 – 2006 Dr. Susanta Mukhopadhyay

2003 – 2006 Dr. Duan Kaibo

2003 – 2004 Dr. Tan Choong Leong

2003 – 2003 Dr. Rajeev Kumar Sukumaran

Research Associates/Assistants Trained

2010 -- 2011 Ms. Iti Chaturvedi, M.Sc.

2010 -- 2010 Ms. Divya Jain, B.Sc.

2006 -- 2007 Ms. Pooja, M.Sc.

2005 -- 2006 Miss Keren-Happuch E Fan Fan, B.Sc.

2003 -- 2006 Mr. Gavyn Pang, M.Sc.

2003 -- 2005 Miss Wendy Tham, M.Sc.

2002 -- 2003 Mr. Shi Jian, B.Sc.

2002 -- 2003 Mr. Tan Ching Wai, M.Sc.

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Last updated on 7/3/2012