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Dr. Ng See Kiong

Department Head
Data Mining

Academic Qualifications: Ph.D. in Computer Science (Carnegie Mellon University)
Research Interests/Areas: Bioinformatics, Text Mining, Real-world Network Data Mining, Protein-Protein Interactions, Scientific Knowledge Discovery
Honors and Awards:
- Best Paper Award, 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW2005) (2005).
- National Computer Board (NCB) Undergraduate Overseas Scholarship (1986-9)
Professional Activities:
- Editorial Boards
  - Associate Editor,"Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology"(ABCB) book series, Imperial College Press, London, 2004-present.
  - Advisory Editor, "Bioinformatics and Computational BioImaging"book series, Artech House Publishers, Inc, Boston, 2006-present.
  - Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics(IJDMB), Inderscience Publishers, 2006-present.
- Program Committees
  - GIW-2006: 17th International Conference on Genome Informatics, Yokohama, December, 2006.
  - PKDD06: Data and Text Mining for Integrative Biology Workshop, in the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Berlin, 18-22 September 2006.
  - ISMB06 : 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 6-10 2006.
  - PAKDD 2006 - KDLL : Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Life Science Literature and Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications, in 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Singapore, 9-12 April 2006.
  - GIW-2005: 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics, Yokohama, December 19-21, 2005.
- Journal Reviewing
  - BMC Journal of Genomics (2006-present)
  - Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JCBC) (2003-present)
  - IEEE Intelligent Systems (2005)
  - ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing - Special Issue on Text Mining and Management in Biomedicine (2005)
  - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I) (2006)
- Conference Keynotes
  - "Unraveling Multi-Domain Dependencies in Protein-Protein Interactions", in the First International Conference on Computational Systems Biology (ICCSB-2006), Shanghai, 20-23 July2006.
- Invited Talks
  - "Mining for Gold in Mountains of Unstructured Text", invited speaker for the Identifying and Managing Unstructured Information Conference, The Ark Group, Singapore, 26-28 April 2006.
  - "Extracting and Exploiting Protein-Protein Contrasts from Biomedical Literature", invited speaker for the CHIME Text Processing Seminar, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 1 Mar 2006.
  - "BioContrasts: Extracting and Exploiting Protein-Protein Contrasts from Biomedical Literature", invited speaker for the First International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine, KAIST, Korea, 26 Nov 2005.
  - "Computational Purification of Protein Interactomes Using Network Topological Metrics", invited lecture for the BIOINFO2005 AASBi Conference, Busan, Korea, 23 September 2005.
Selected Publications:
- J.J. Kim, Z. Zhuo, J.C.Park, and S.-K. Ng (2006) "BioContrasts: Extracting and Exploiting Protein-Protein Contrastive Relations from Biomedical Literature", in Bioinformatics vol 22, no. 5, pages 597-605.
- X.-L. Li, S.-H. Tan, C.-S. Foo, and S.-K. Ng (2005) "Interaction Graph Mining for Protein Complexes Using Local Clique Merging", in Genome Informatics, vol 16(2), pages 260-269; also presented at the 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW-2005), Yokohama, Japan, December 19-21, 2005. BEST PAPER FOR GIW-2005.
- S.-K. Ng , S.-H. Tan (2004). "Discovering Protein-Protein Interactions", in Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vol. 1, No. 4, pages 711-741.
- S.-K. Ng, Z. Zhuo, S.-H. Tan, (2003) "Integrative Approach for Computationally Inferring Protein Domain Interactions", Bioinformatics, Vol 19, No. 8, pages 923-929.
- M. Perlin, G. Lancia and S.-K. Ng, (1995). "Toward Fully Automated Genotyping: Genotyping Microsatellite Markers by Deconvolution", American Journal of Human Genetics, 57(5):1199-1210.