Awards & Honours
A partial list of awards and honours received by faculty members of the lab relating to bioinformatics. To include an item, please contact Limsoon Wong (wongls@comp.nus.edu.sg)

• 2014: President's Technology Award
  Recipients: Wynne Hsu and Mong Li Lee
  For: Contributions to the development of novel ocular image analysis technology for the screening and evaluation of significant clinical problems in eye and vascular diseases worldwide.

• 2014: KDD Test of Time Award
  Recipient: Wynne Hsu
  For: The paper ``Integrating classification abd association rule mining'', published in KDD 1998.

• 2014: ICDT Test of Time Award
  Recipient: Limsoon Wong
  For: The paper ``Naturally embedded query languages'', published in ICDT 1992.

• 2013: Fellow of ACM
  Recipient: Limsoon Wong
  For: Contributions to database theory and computational biology.

• 2009: Fellow of Singapore Computer Society
  Recipient: Hon Wai Leong
  

• 2009 NUS Inspiring Mentor Award
  Recipient: Hon Wai Leong
  

• 2008 NUS University Scholars Programme Teaching Award
  Recipient: Hon Wai Leong
  For: Going beyond the normal duty of classroom teaching; and making significant and lasting contributions to students' intellectual and personal growth.

• 2008 NUS Young Researcher Award
  Recipient: Wing-Kin Sung
  For: Innovative and original work in combinatorial pattern matching and its application to genomics

• 2007 Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellowship
  Recipient: Lisa Tucker-Kellogg
  

• 2007: Rated by ISI as the 49th hottest paper in computer science published in 2006
  Authors: Hon Nian Chua, Wing-Kin Sung, Limsoon Wong
  Paper: "Exploiting Indirect Neighbours and Topological Weight to Predict Protein Function from Protein-Protein Interactions". Bioinformatics, 22:1623--1630, July 2006.

• 2007: Winner, Protein-Protein Subnetwork Challenge, the 2nd Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM2)
  Team: Hon Nian Chua, Hugo Willy, Guimei Liu, Xiaoli Li, Limsoon Wong, See-Kiong Ng

• 2007: Winner, BCL6 Transcriptional Net Challenge, the 2nd Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM2)
  Team: W. H. Lee, V. Narang, H. Xu, K. C. Chin, W. K. Sung

• 2006 National Science Award
  Recipients: Yijun Ruan, Chia Lin Wei, Patrick Ng, Wing-Kin Sung
  For: Innovative work in developing the Paired End diTag sequencing technology for comprehensive characterisation of the human genome and transcriptome

• 2006 Singapore Youth Award Medal of Commendation
  Recipient: Limsoon Wong
  For: Sustained contributions to science and technology

• 2003 Far Eastern Economic Review Asian Innovation Gold Award
  Recipients: Jinyan Li, Huiqing Liu, Limsoon Wong, Allen Yeoh
  For: A simple test for childhood leukaemia that promises safer treatment and higher cure rates in the developing world

• 2003 Japan Forum on Information Technology Paper Award
  Recipients: Kunihiko Sadakane, Wing-Kin Sung, Wing-Kai Hon
  For: Space-efficient algorithms for constructing full-text indices