News

• April'10: Congratulations to Xin and Xiaolin! Their paper on IBD inference on pedigrees has been accepted by ISMB'10.
• March'10: three master students Cen, Kanchana and Benjamin successfully defended their master thesis
• Feb'10: two new members Drs Rajeeve Azad and Wenhui Wang will join us in March.
• Jan'10: Xin presented our work at PSB'10 and Yixuan presented our work at APBC'10.
• Dec'09: Dr. Li has been awarded "Faculty Teaching Award" by the department.
• Dec'09: Congratulations to Xin! He has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis recently.
• Nov'09: Congratulations to Kanchana! Her paper describing the software MAVEN has been accepted by Bioinformatics journal.
• Nov'09: The full version of Xiaolin's paper on copy number variation has been accepted by Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Congrats him!
• Oct'09: Congratulations to Xin and Yoon Soo! They both received travel awards to present their work at international conferences (BIBM'09 and PSB'10).
• Oct'09: Xin has another paper accepted by BMC Bioinformatics. This is in collaboration with researchers in EECS dept and Proteomics center.
• Sep'09: Congratulations to Xin and Yixuan! Their papers have been accepted by PSB'10 and APBC'10 recently.
• Aug'09: PedPhase 3.0 released!
• Aug'09: Congratulations to Yoon Soo, his paper on gene expression analysis of cancer progression has been accepted by BIBM'09!
• Aug'09: Xiaolin presented his work on copy number variation detection at CSB'09! The full paper has been submitted to JBCB by invitation.
• July'09: Our project on human variation analysis has been awarded (R01) by NIH/NLM! We are actively looking for motivated students/postDocs to join us.
• June'09: Xin presented the modularity analysis of PPI networks at OCCBIO'09 (joint work with Erten, Bebek and Koyuturk).
• June'09: Kanchana presented our MAVEN system at OCCBIO'09.
• May'09: Matthew presented his work on copy number variation detection at ISBRA'09.

Awards

1. EECS Faculty Research Achievement Award Dec. 2005.
2. Third place in 2003 ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. June 03. News from ACM MemberNet and ACM SRC.
3. First Annual Graduate Research Awards, UC-Riverside. Mar 03
4. First place in ACM SIGCSE Student Research Competition . Feb 03
5. I/O Software Innovation Scholarship. Nov 02
6. Summer Research Grant from Computer Sci. Dept. of UC Riverside, July 01.
7. Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship from UC Riverside, Aug. 00.
8. First Price in the National Contest for College Students on Mathematics Modeling in China Jan. 95
9. Price of Outstanding Student in Peking University 91-94

Pictures

Together with Mark Lewin, Microsoft Research representative, on Annul ACM Awards Banquet June 7, 2003 in San Diego, CA.

SRC Coordinator Ann Sobel and Microsoft Research representative Mark Lewin presented the ACM SRC Final Awards.

Annul ACM Awards Banquet June 7, 2003 in San Diego, CA.

Presented my work on the UC Riverside First Annul Graduate Research Awards and Colloquium on Mar 21, 2003.

Together with other recipients of Graduate Research Awards and Honorable Mentions.

Presented my work on ACM SIGCSE in Reno, NV, Feb, 2003.

I/O Software annual Innovation Scholarship award ceremony: (from left to right) US Congressman Ken Calvert, Jing Li (2002 recipient), France Cordova (Chancellor of UCR), William Saito (CEO, I/O Software), Riverside, CA, Nov 1st, 2002.