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				| Jan 22 | - now: | Professor, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |  
				| Aug 21 | - Jan 22: | Professor (tenured), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |  
				| Aug 16 | - Jan 22: | Associate Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |  
				| Sep 12 | - Jan 22: | Associate member, Biomedical Engineering Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |  
				| Aug 16 | - Jul 21: | Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |  
				| Aug 16 | - Jun 20: | Associate Professor, CUHK-BGI Innovation Institute of Trans-omics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |  
				| Sep 14 | - Jul 16: | Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |  
				| Sep 11 | - Jul 16: | Assistant Professor, CUHK-BGI Innovation Institute of Trans-omics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |  
				| Aug 10 | - Jul 16: | Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |  | 
	
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					2022 Faculty Member of the Year Award, Faculty Opinions
					2022 Crystal Apply Award, Graduate School, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
					2019 Outstanding Fellow, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
					2019 Young Researcher Award, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
					2019 Exemplary Service Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
					2017 Top-10 papers reading list in 2016-17, RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory Systems Genomics
					2017 Exemplary Service Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
					2015 Exemplary Service Award, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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					The 28th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2024
					The 15th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics 2023
					The 14th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2023
					The 22nd International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2023
					The 13th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2022
					The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2022
					The 21st International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2022
					The 14th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics 2022
					The 12th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2021
					The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2021
					The 20th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2021
					The 11th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2020
					The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2020
					The 19th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2020
					The 13th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics 2020
					The 10th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2019
					The 18th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2019
					The 17th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD) 2018
					The 17th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2018
					The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2017
					IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2016
					The 27th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW) 2016
					Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) Conference 2016
					IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2015
					Genome Informatics Workshop/International Conference on Bioinformatics (GIW/InCoB) Joint Conference 2015
					IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2014
					IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2013
					ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2013
					IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2012
					ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2012 (Received Outstanding Reviewer Award)
					IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2011
					IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM) 2010
					The 1st Workshop on Management and Mining of Uncertain Data (MOUND) 2009
					The 1st Workshop on Data Mining of Uncertain Data (DUNE) 2007
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					IBM Certified Systems Expert
					Oracle Certified Professional
					Sun Microsystems Java Certified Programmer
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