awards

In 2004, the paper entitled "Indexing Spatio-Temporal Trajectories with Chebyshev Polynomials" (co-authored with Yuhan Cai) got the Best Paper Award for the 2004 ACM SIGMOD conference.
In 2001, the paper entitled "Robust Space Transformation for Distance-based Operations" (co-authored with Ed Knorr and Ruben Zamar) got the Best Paper Award for the 2001 ACM SIGKDD conference.
In 1999, the paper entitled "One-dimensional and Multi-dimensional Substring Selectivity Estimation" (co-authored with H. V. Jagadish, O. Srivastava) appears in the Special Issue of the Best Papers of VLDB '99 of the VLDB Journal, 9, 3, 2001.
In 1998, the paper entitled "Algorithms for Mining Distance-based Outliers from Large Datasets" (Co-authored with Ed Knorr) appears in the Special Issue on the Best Papers of VLDB '98 of the VLDB Journal, 8, 3, Feb. 2000.
In 1986, I was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal for being the top graduating student from the Faculties of Science and Arts at UBC.

recent grants

AGENCY	SUBJECT	YEAR(S)	TEAM
MITACS	System Biology for Organ Transplantation	2010- 2012	R. Ng
NCE (Commercialization)	Prevention of Organ Failures	2008 - 2013	B.McManus et al.
NSERC (Strategic Network)	Business Intelligence Network	2009 - 2014	R. Miller et al.
NSERC (Discovery)	A Data Mining Framework for Genomics Biomarker and Signature Identification	2009 - 2014	R. Ng
NSERC (Strategic Grant)	New Generation Tools for the Assessment of Nano-Material Effects on Amphibian Wildlife	2009 - 2012	C. Helbing et al.
NSERC (Discovery)	Robust Mining of Biomedical Data	2004 - 2009	R. Ng
Google	Summarization of Evaluative Text and Emails	2007 - 2008	G. Carenini and R. Ng
Genome Canada	Biomarkers in Transplantation	2004 - 2008	B. McManus et al.
Genome Canada	Application of Pharmacogenomics for Rational Chemotherapy of Lung Cancer	2004 - 2008	V. Ling et al.
Genome Canada	Development and Validation of CGH Arrays for Clinical Use of Cancer	2004 - 2008	W. Lam et al.
NCE IRIS	Aquisition, Querying and Prediction of Motion Trajectories	2002 - 2005	R. Ng et al.
NCE IRIS	New Frontiers in Data Mining	2002 - 2005	L. Lakshmanan et al.
NCE IRIS	Intelligent Computational Methods for the Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles	2002 - 2005	I. Jurisica et al.
MITACS	Towards Interactive Data Mining	2002 - 2004	R. Ng et al.

Last updated: 28/12/2011