awards

In 2016, I was awarded the holder of the Canada Research Chair on Data Science and Analytics. The term is for 10 years.
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
Canadian Institutes of Health Research	HEARTBIT: a Novel Multi-marker Blood Test for Management of Acute Cardiac Allograft Rejection	2018 - 2021	B. McManus, R. Ng et al.
Canada Foundation For Innovation	MERIDIAN: Marine Environmental Research Infrastructure for Data Integration and Application Network	2018 - 2021	S. Matwin, R. Ng et al.
Terry Fox Research Institute	Pan-Canadian Early Detection of Lung Cancer	2018 - 2021	S. Lam, R. Ng et al.
NSERC (Discovery)	Managing and Modeling Time in Genomics Data	2014 - 2019	R. Ng
Genome Canada	Clinical Implementation and Outcomes Evaluation of Blood-based Biomarkers for COPD Management	2013 - 2018	R. Ng, D. Sin et al.
Genome British Columbia	Clinical Implementation of Diagnostic Biomarker Assays in Heart and Kidney Transplantation	2012 - 2014	B. McManus, R. Ng et al.
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: 28/10/2018