Download Best Paper Award at ACM Conference on Bioinformatics

Best Paper Award at ACM Conference on
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and
Biomedicine 2011
SCE Assoc Prof Sourav S Bhowmick bagged the Best Full Paper Award in the ACM Conference on
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine 2011. Held in Chicago, the acceptance rate for
2011’s conference for regular papers was 19%. The winning paper was FUSE: Towards Multi-Level
Functional Summarization of Protein Interaction Networks was authored by Boon-Siew Seah, Sourav S
Bhowmick, C F Dewey, Jr, and Hanry Yu.
The ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB) and is the
flagship conference of the ACM SIG Bioinformatics. The papers submitted in this conference cover the
areas of new algorithms or novel computational approaches broadly in Bioinformatics, Computational
Biology and Biomedicine. In addition to the emphasis on the novelty of computational techniques, the
conference seeks papers that report novel biological discovery through non-trivial data mining process by
using existing computational techniques.
This award makes Sourav S Bhowmick the only faculty in history of NTU to win two best paper awards in
ACM conferences, having won the Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award (with Q Zhao, M Mohania, Y
Kambayashi) in ACM CIKM 2004 for the paper Discovering Frequently Changing Structures from
Historical Structural Deltas of Unordered XML.
About Assoc Prof Sourav S Bhowmick *Abstract from http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg/assourav/
Sourav S Bhowmick is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University and the Director of Centre for Advanced Information Systems
(CAIS). He is affiliated with the Data Management Research Group at NTU (DANTE) and Data
Mining & Machine Learning Group. He is currently Visiting Associate Professor at the
Biological Engineering Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He also
holds the position of Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) Fellow in Computation and Systems
Biology program (2005-2012). Sourav received his Ph.D. in computer engineering in 2001.
Sourav's key research goal is to consistently undertake quality research that will enhance human
needs and aspirations. His current research interests include tree and graph data management,
HCI-aware data management, database usability, social media & web data management, data
mining, and computation & systems biology. He has published more than 120 papers in major
international database, data mining, and bioinformatics conferences and journals such as VLDB,
IEEE ICDE, ACM WWW, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGKDD, ACM MM, ACM CIKM, ER,
ACM BCB, IEEE TKDE, ACM CS, and Information Systems. The common thread running
through his research is a focus on going beyond papers to build usable novel data management
and mining systems and prototypes.