Limsoon Wong

Limsoon Wong is the Kwan-Im-Thong-Hood-Cho-Temple Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a professor in the Department of Pathology at the National University of Singapore. Before that, he was the Deputy Executive Director for Research at A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research. He currently works mostly on knowledge discovery technologies and their application to biomedicine. He has also done, especially in the earlier part of his career, significant research in database query language theory and finite model theory, as well as significant development work in broad-scale data integration systems. He is a Fellow of the ACM, inducted for his contributions to database theory and computational biology. Some of his awards include the 2003 FEER Asian Innovation Gold Award, for his work on treatment optimization of childhood leukemias, and the ICDT 2014 Test of Time Award, for his work on naturally embedded query languages. He serves/served on the editorial boards of Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biology Direct, Drug Discovery Today, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Journal of Biomedical Semantics, Methods, Scientific Reports, Information Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. He is also an ACM Books Area Editor. He received his B.Sc. (Eng.) in 1988 from Imperial College London and his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania.