SoC Professors Recognised for
Impactful Research Contributions and Commitment to Excellence in
Teaching
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Associate Professor Ken Sung Wing-Kin has been conferred the NUS
Young Researcher Award for 2008.
He received the award for his work in combinatorial pattern
matching, a research area within the broader field of
computational biology.
The award follows another that he received in 2006. That first
award was for his contribution to the development of an
innovative DNA sequencing strategy for studying the human
genome.
Prof Sung was then part of a team which also included three
other researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS)
that won the National Science Award (NSA) in 2006.
The NUS Young Researcher Award that he won this year is given to
outstanding NUS researchers under the age of 40 for their
potential impact in their respective areas of work.
It is part of the University Awards, an annual event of NUS. The
conferment ceremony for 2008 was held on 11 April at the University
Cultural Centre.
Another SoC professor who has recently been recognised for his
research efforts is Assistant Professor Yu Haifeng.
His proposed project on secure and highly available aggregation
queries in large-scale sensor networks won him the NUS Young
Investigator Award on 8 December 2007.
In teaching, Associate Professor Gary Tan has emerged the
trail-blazer this year. He won the Annual Teaching Excellence
Award for the third time.
The award is given by the University to recognise faculty
members who are highly committed to and achieve good teaching,
with selection based on peer and student feedback as well as
information from teaching portfolios.
Prof Tan’s latest win, is for his performance in AY 2006/7, with
the award conferred at a ceremony on 17 April 2008.
As a three-time winner of the award, Prof Tan is slated for the
Honour Roll, an added recognition that he will receive at
another ceremony in 2009.
Besides Prof Tan, Assistant Professor Alan Cheng Holun and
Instructor Mr Anand Mohan Ramchand have also won an Annual
Teaching Excellence Award each for AY2006/7.
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