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WONG Lim Soon

KITHCT Chair Professor
Deputy Dean, NUS Graduate School
Director, Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme

  • B.Sc. (Engineering)(Computing Science) with First Class Honours (Imperial College London)
  • Ph.D. (Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania)

Wong Limsoon is Kwan-Im-Thong-Hood-Cho-Temple Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also a professor (now honorary) of pathology in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS. Before coming to NUS, he was the Deputy Executive Director for Research at A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research. He currently works mostly on knowledge discovery technologies and their application to biomedicine. He has also done, in the earlier part of his career, significant research in database query language theory and finite model theory, as well as significant development work in broad-scale data integration systems. Limsoon is a Fellow of the ACM, inducted for his contributions to database theory and computational biology. Some of his other awards include the 2003 FEER Asian Innovation Gold Award for his work on treatment optimization of childhood leukemias, the 2006 Singapore Youth Award Medal of Commendation for his sustained contributions to science and technology, and the ICDT 2014 Test of Time Award for his work on naturally embedded query languages. He co-founded Molecular Connections in India, and has served as its chairman for over a decade, seeing the company growing progressively to some 2,000 information curators, software engineers, research scientists.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Database Theory and Systems

  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

  • Knowledge Discovery and Datamining

RESEARCH PROJECTS

From iteration on multiple collections in synchrony to fast general interval joins

Synchrony iterator captures a programming pattern for synchronized iterations. It is a conservative extension that enhances the repertoire of algorithms expressible in comprehension syntax. In particular, efficient general synchronized iterations, e.g. linear-time algorithms for low-selectivity database non-equijoins, become expressible naturally in comprehensinon syntax.

TRL 4

RESEARCH GROUPS

TEACHING INNOVATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Limsoon Wong. A dichotomy in the intensional expressive power of nested relational calculi augmented with aggregate functions and a powerset operator.Proceedings of 32nd ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, pages 285-295, New York, June 2013.
  • Stefano Perna, Val Tannen, Limsoon Wong. Iterating on multiple collections in synchrony. Journal of Functional Programming, 32:e9, July 2022.
  • Wilson Wen Bin Goh, Limsoon Wong. Advancing clinical proteomics via analysis based on biological complexes: A tale of five paradigms.Journal of Proteome Research, 159:3167-3179, July 2016.
  • Weijia Kong, Bertrand Jernhan Wong, Huanhuan Gao, Tiannan Guo, Xianming Liu, Xiaoxian Du, Limsoon Wong, Wilson Wen Bin Goh. PROTREC: A probability-based approach for recovering missing proteins based on biological networks. Journal of Proteomics, 250:104392, January 2022.
  • Wilson Wen Bin Goh, Limsoon Wong. Why breast cancer signatures are no better than random signatures explained. Drug Discovery Today, 2311:1818--1823, November 2018.
  • Wilson Wen Bin Goh, Chern Han Yong, Limsoon Wong. Are batch effects still relevant in the age of big data? Trends in Biotechnology, 40(9):1029--1040, September 2022.
  • Mohammad Neamul Kabir, Limsoon Wong. EnsembleFam: Towards more accurate protein family prediction in the twilight zone. BMC Bioinformatics, 23:90, March 2022.

AWARDS & HONOURS

  • Fellow of the ACM, 2013

  • ICDT 2014 Test of Time Award, 2014 (with Peter Buneman and Val Tannen)

  • Asian Innovation Award (Gold), 2003 (with Allen Yeoh, Huiqing Liu, and Jinyan Li)

COURSES TAUGHT

CS2220
Introduction to Computational Biology
CS4330
Combinatorial Methods in Bioinformatics

 

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