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EDUCATIONUniversity of

Wisconsin-Madison, College of Letters and Sciences,

Madison, WIPhD candidate in Computer

Science (Present)

Awards: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellowship from NIH (4 year fellowship)

University of

Wisconsin-Madison, College of Letters and Sciences,

Madison, WIMasters of Science in Computer

Science (May 2001),

College of Arts and Sciences, Ithaca, NYBA/BA in Biological

Science and Computer

Science (August 1997)

Awards: Dean's Scholar grant, Dean's List and Gouverneur Foundation Scholarship (4 years).

Curtin University of

Technology, Bentley,

WA Australia.Study Abroad program. (Spring 1996)

Gouverneur High

School Gouverneur, NY.Awards: Valedictorian with Honors Regents diploma. (June 1993)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCEResearch Assistant,, Madison, WI.Developing methods using supervised machine learning,

statistical analysis and other techniques for identifying

and characterizing genes from DNA-arrays.

(February 2000 - Present)

Research Assistant,, Madison, WI.Developing a high-throughput computing environment using

for

structure determination

programs such as .

(September 1999 - Present)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEBioinformatics Scientific Analyst (promotion)Part of a team involved in creating a genome viewer used

to discover novel genes. Patent has been filed on the user interface of the genome browser.

(November 1998 - July 1999)

Bioinformatics Software Engineer,, King of Prussia, PA.Participated in the development of a web-based application

used to perform gene discovery, functional assignment, and

expression analysis. Developed java applets that accessed

data sources via CORBA and present analyses

of ESTs by visualizing sequences, characterizations and alignments.

(September 1997 - November 1998)

Service Professional,, Ithaca, NY.Production of plasmids and analysis of DNA for Cornell

Institute for Biology Teachers (CIBT).

(September 1996 - August 1997)

Research Assistant,

Genetica Biotechnologies, Technology Park, Bentley WA Australia.Researched part of a design for a test kit for the detection of

lethal pathogenic C. Albicans in patients with

systemic infection. Utilized: PCR, Immunostaining,

Nonradioactive Hybridization, Electroporation, DNA

Extraction, Southern Blot, SDS PAGE, ELISA

and microbiology techniques.

(February - June 1996)

Lab technician, Professor Hanson's Laboratory, Cornell

Biotech Ithaca, NY.Made media and solutions, maintained organization of

laboratory, and assisted post-doctoral fellow with their research.

I also worked on a project involving the optimization of

transformation using the BIO-RAD gene gun.

(March 1994 - December 1995)

Web Developer, Proteome

Inc., Boston, MA.Consulted in the installation and development of the web site.

Modified C program to manage the yeast genome database for

the web.

(Summer 1995)

Volunteer Web Developer,

Cornell's Division of Biological

Sciences homepage.

Assisted in the installation and development of the biology

department's web site.

(January 1995 - March 1995)

Computer Lab Supervisor, Cornell Comstock Hall, Ithaca,

NY. Monitored and maintained the Macintosh and PC compatible

computing facility.

(August 1994 - December 1994)

TEACHING EXPERIENCETeaching Assistant,, Madison, WI.Assisted Professor Jude Shavlik in instructing

.

(January 2003 - May 2003)

Volunteer Instructor,, Madison, WI.Instructed students in

for 3 weeks in the area of bioinformatics.

(January 2003 - May 2003)

Volunteer Java Tutor, Madison, WI.Tutored students Java programming methodologies.

(September 1999 - Present)

Math Tutor,, WA Australia.Tutored a college student in the area of mathematics.

(March - June 1996)

Teaching Assistant,

EXCEL Program,

Christopher Newport University,

NN, VA.Teaching aide for hands-on science and computer technology.

Created an interactive problem solving environment

for students to learn about computers

and communication.

(June - August 1994)

Teaching Assistant, SITE Program at CEBAF, Newport News, VA.SITE is a program designed to teach teachers methods

for more effective teaching.

(August 1994)

PUBLICATION

Ong, I. M., J. D. Glasner and D. Page, "Modelling Regulatory Pathways in {\em E.coli} from Time Series Expression Profiles", Bioinformatics, 18:241S-248S (2002), special issue based on the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2002), Edmonton, CA, August 2002.

CONFERENCES NIPS in Vancouver, Canada, 12/2002

ISMB in Edmonton, Canada: presentation on "Modelling Regulatory Pathways in {\em E.coli} from Time Series Expression Profiles", 8/2002

UAI in Edmonton, Canada, 8/2002

RECOMB in Washington DC, 4/2002

ISMB in Copenhagen, Denmark: poster presentation of ``Inferring Regulatory Pathways in E.Coli using Dynamic Bayesian Networks'' 7/2001

XIX ICMRBS in Florence, Italy: poster presentation of ``High Throughput Application for Protein Structure Determination from NMR Experiments'' 8/2000

JavaOne Conference, 5/1999

Molecular Biology Conference, 3/1999

Edward Tufte Data Visualization Course, 2/1999

Conference on Computational Genomics, poster presentation of ``Designing Gadgets for Genome Browsing'' 11/1998

Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference, 9/1998

JavaOne Conference, 6/1998

PATENT

Genome Browser interface.

SKILLS Computer: Java, C, CORBA, JDBC, Perl, Pascal, SQL, UNIX, NT, Macintosh, HTML, matlab.

Coursework: Advanced Database Systems, Computer Vision, Introduction to Programming Languages and Compilers, Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Algorithms, Bioinformatics, Introduction to Database Management Systems, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering.

Laboratory Techniques:

DNA extraction, DNA purification, plasmid purification, Southern blot,

acrylamide and agarose gel electrophoresis, gene cloning techniques,

restriction enzyme mappings, PCR, dye staining, immunostaining,

electroporation, SDS PAGE, Nonradioactive Hybridization, tissue culture

experience, microbiology techniques and aseptic techniques.

Language: Malaysian, Chinese, Spanish (4 years),

Japanese (1 semester).

ACTIVITIES Reviewer for ICML workshop, Bioinformatics and Journal of

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, SACM Social Chair,

SACM TGIF Coordinator, Hoofers' Sailing Club, EARS, Cornell

Kids Club, Cornell Judo Club, Orientation Counselor,

Supervisory Orientation Counselor, Cornell Ballroom Dance

Club, Cornell Red Carpet Society, Student Advisor. REFERENCES

Available upon request

CITIZENSHIPMalaysian/Permanent Resident of United States

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