Prof. Mohd Zaid Bin Abdullah
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof. M. Z. Abdullah graduated from Universiti
Sains Malaysia (USM) with a B. App. Sc. degree
in Electronic in 1986 before joining Hitachi
Semiconductor as a test engineer. In 1989, he
commenced an M.Sc. in Instrument Design and
Application at University of Manchester
Institute of Science and Technology, UK. He
remained in Manchester conducting research in
Electrical Impedance Tomography at the same
university, and received his Ph.D. degree in
1993. He joined USM in the same year. His
research interests include microwave tomography,
digital imaging, and ultra wide band sensing. He
has published numerous research articles in
international journals and conference
proceedings. One of his papers was awarded The
Senior Moulton medal for the best article
published by the Institute of Chemical
Engineering in 2002. Presently he is director of
the Collaborative Microelectronic Design
Excellence Centre (CEDEC), Universiti Sains
Malaysia.
Prof. Taesung Park
Seoul National University, South Korea
Prof. Taesung Park received his B.S. and M.S.
degrees in Statistics from Seoul National
University (SNU), Korea in 1984 and 1986,
respectively and received his Ph.D. degree in
Biostatistics from the University of Michigan in
1990. From Aug. 1991 to Aug. 1992, he worked as
a visiting scientist at the NIH, USA. From Sep.
2002 to Aug. 2003, he was a visiting professor
at the University of Pittsburgh. From Sep. 2009
to Aug. 2010, he was a visiting professor in
Department of Biostatistics at the University of
Washington. From Sep. 1999 to Sep. 2001, he
worked as an associate professor in Department
of Statistics at SNU. Since Oct. 2001 he worked
as a professor and currently the Director of the
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Lab. at SNU. He
served as the chair of the bioinformatics
Program from Apr. 2005 to Mar. 2008, and the
chair of Department of Statistics of SNU from
Sep. 2007 and Aug. 2009. He has served editorial
board members and associate editors for the
international journals including Genetic
Epidemiology, Computational Statistics and Data
Analysis, Biometrical Journal, and International
journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics. His
research areas include microarray data analysis,
GWAS, gene-gene interaction analysis, and
statistical genetics.
Prof. Francis Y. L. Chin
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Prof. Francis Y. L. Chin received his B.A.Sc.
degree from the University of Toronto in 1972,
and his M.S., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from
Princeton University in 1974, 1975, and 1976,
respectively. Prior to joining The University of
Hong Kong (HKU) in 1985, he had taught at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County; the
University of California, San Diego; the
University of Alberta; the Chinese University of
Hong Kong; and the University of Texas at
Dallas. Professor Chin was the Chair of the
Department of Computer Science at HKU and was
the founding Head of the Department from its
establishment until December 31, 1999. From 2002
until July 31, 2006, he had served as the
Associate Dean of the Graduate School. From 2007
to his retirement from HKU in 2015, Prof Chin
had served as an Associate Dean of the Faculty
of Engineering. Professor Chin is an IEEE Fellow
and his research interests include design and
analysis of algorithms, machine learning, and
bioinformatics including Motif-finding (Motif
discovery) and De Novo genome assembly (IDBA).
Professor Chin is now an Emeritus Professor of
The University of Hong Kong.