GRADUATE STUDENTS

Awards and Honors

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

· Travel Award, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008), Hong Kong (Miss Kavuri Swathi Sri)

· Runner-up for the best student paper award,13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2006), Hong Kong, (Mr. Arun Kumar)

· Associate Membership, Asia Pacific Science and Technology Centre, Sun Microsystems (Dr. Juan Zhou)

· Nominee for the best paper award at the Fifteenth International Conference on Genomic Informatics (GIW04), Yokohama (Mr. Yang Xaio).

· The best student paper award at 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CIBCB04), San Diego (Dr. Ho Sy Loi).

· The best overall paper award at 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CIBCB04), San Diego (Dr. Ho Sy Loi).

· The Young Scientist Award of Japanese Society of Bioinformatics at the Fourteenth International Conference on Genomic Informatics (GIW03), Tokyo (Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Minh).

· The Young Scientist Award of Japanese Society of Bioinformatics at the Fourteenth International Conference on Genomic Informatics (GIW03), Tokyo (Dr. Ho Sy Loi).

· Nominee for the best Ph.D. thesis of School of Computer Engineering, NTU, 2003, (Dr. Wei Lu).

· Travel Award, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, 2000. (Dr. Wei Lu)

Ph.D. Students 

1. Arun Kumar, M.Eng.

2. Zheng Bo, B.Sc.

3. Piyush Mundra, M.Sc.

4. Iti Chaturvedi, M.Sc.

5. Ng Yu-Jin, Alvin, M.Sc.

6. Merlin Veronika James, M.Sc.

7. Liu Song, M.Eng.

8. Kavuri Swathi Sri, M.Eng.

ALUMINI 

Ph.D.s

1. Dr. Juan Zhou, Ph.D. (2008), “Modeling variability of brain structures, activation, and connectivity,” Research Fellow, Singapore-MIT alliance.

2. Dr. Zheng Xuebin, Ph.D., (2007), “Bayesian Network Modeling of Neural Systems with Functional MR Images,” Research Fellow, BioInformatics Research Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

3. Dr. Sy Loi Ho, Ph.D. (2005): “Regulatory signal detection in genomic sequences”, Director, BioInformatics Research Lab, National University of Vietnam, Hanoi.

4. Dr. Ngoc Minh Nguyen, Ph.D. (2005): “Two stage support vector machines for protein secondary structure and solvent accessibility prediction”, Research Fellow, BioInformatics Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

5. Dr. Gayan N. Meegama, Ph.D. (2004): “Active NURBS modeling of human brain surface”, Senior Lecturer and the Director, Centre for Computing Studies, University of Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka

6. Dr. Choong Leong Tan, Ph.D. (2004): “Hierarchical Markov random field models for restoration of MR images,” Senior Engineer, Mtouche Pte Ltd., Singapore

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

Master's (by Research)

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

2. Mr. H. P. Ong, M.Eng. (2003): “Image analysis using fuzzy networks”

3. Mr. V. Venkatraman, M.Eng. (2003): “Neural network modeling of nonlinear response in fMRI”

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

Master’s (by Project)

1. Mr. Cheung Po Loong, M.Sc. (2006), “Extraction of cis-regulatory motifs from 3’-UTRs of localized and regulated mRNA”

2. Ms. Pooja, M.Sc. (2006), “Comparative genomic analysis of human and mouse pseudogenes”

3. Ms. Lavanya Veeravalli, M.Sc. (2006), « Design of a fast and efficient multiple sequence alignment engine for large-scale homologous protein sequences”

4. Mr. Peng Wai Meng, M.Sc. (2005), “Multi-class support vector machines for subcellular localization of proteins”

5. Mr. Ong Seow Hong, M.Sc. (2005), “Spot recognition in 2D gel electrophoresis images”

6. Mr. Ou Kweek Fong, M.Sc. (2005), “Microarray spot recognition with fold mountains”

7. Mr. Toh Kok Sin, M.Sc. (2005), “A neural network approach using AAIndices for protein subcellular localization prediction”

8. Mr. Danker Adrian Noel, M.Sc. (2004), “HASD: Human Alternative Splicing Database”

9. Mr. Sangrireddy Venugopal Reddy, M.Sc. (2004), “Evoscan: a probabilistic framework for gene annotation using comparative genomics”

10. Mr. I. Faleel, M. Sc.(2003), “Genetic approach to biosequence alignment”

11. Mr. K. W. Choo, M. Sc. (2002), “Analysis of jittered and randomly designed fMRI experiments”

12. Mr. Bao Guojun, M.Phil.(2001), "Retrospective image registration using genetic algorithms"

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