Curriculum Vitae

Mr. Warren A Cheung, BSc MSc UBC
張偉麟 (pinyin: zhang wei lín)
wac AT dnahelix DOT org

Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
#3109-980 W 28th Ave.
Vancouver, British Columbia
CANADA
V5Z 4H4
Tel: [phone] ext. 7947
Fax: [phone]

Academic Background and Training

• Doctorate of Philosophy Student, Bioinformatics Program (Transferred from Genetics, Sept 2006), Francis Ouellette and Dr. Wyeth Wasserman, Bioinformatics Training Program, University of British Columbia (Sept 2005-Present)
• Research Rotation, Dr. Wyeth Wasserman, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (Fall 2006). Finding Overrepresented Promoter Elements for Purkinje cell specific expression
• Research Rotation, Francis Ouellette, UBC Bioinformatics Centre (Summer 2006). Mapping the Protein Interaction Space.
• Research Rotation, Dr. Artem Cherkasov (Spring 2005). Predicting Host Defense Peptide Activity from Computed Sequence-based Descriptors
• Master of Science, Computer Science Department with Dr. William Evans, Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Laboratory, University of British Columbia (Sept 2003-Nov 2005)
• Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Microbiology (Double) Majors, University of British Columbia (Sept 1997-May 2002)

Work Experience

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia. CPSC 121, CPSC 304, CPSC 314, CPSC 320, CPSC 421, CPSC 445. (Sept 2003-Aug 2004, May 2005-Jul 2005, Jan-Apr 2009)
• Research Assistant, Dr. Holger Hoos, University of British Columbia. Touch screen Wayfinding Kiosk. (Sept 2004-Apr 2005)
• Research Assistant, Dr. William Evans, University of British Columbia. Code Compaction on the ARM processor. (May 2002-Aug 2003)

Distinctions and Credentials

• Dean's Honour List, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2001-2002
• Dean's Honour List, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2000-2001
• Dean's Honour List, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1997-1998

Awards

• Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia. Effective: 09/2009, $0.
• MSFHR Senior Graduate Studentship, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Canada. Effective: 04/2008, ($7,000 + $2,500 travel) x 2 yrs
• NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship D3, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada. Effective: 09/2007, $21,000 x 3yrs
• Ph.D. Tuition Award, UBC. Effective: September 2006, ( $2,600.36, $3,965.41 , $1,847.91, $1,872.39)
• Strategic Training Program in Bioinformatics, CIHR/MSFHR , Canada, Effective: 09/2005, Ending: 08/2007, $18,000 x 2 yrs
• Undergraduate Student Research Award, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada, Effective: 06/2002, Ending: 05/2003, $5,000 x 1 yr
• Outstanding Student Initiative Scholarship, University of British Columbia, Canada, Effective: 09/1997, Ending: 05/2000, $2,500 x 3 yrs

Publications

• W. Cheung, G. Hamarneh. n-SIFT: n-Dimensional Scale Invariant Feature Transform. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. Volume 18, Issue 9, Sept. 2009. pp:2012 - 2021. doi:10.1109/TIP.2009.2024578
• Christopher D. Fjell, Håvard Jenssen, Kai Hilpert, Warren A. Cheung, Nelly Panté, Robert E.W. Hancock and Artem Cherkasov. Identification of Novel Antibacterial Peptides by Chemoinformatics and Machine Learning. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2009. doi:10.1021/jm8015365
• Warren A Cheung, Francis BF Ouellette, Wyeth W. Wasserman. Mapping Biomedical Literature Annotations to Extract Gene-Disease Associations. Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC) 2008.
• Kemmer D, Podowski RM, Yusuf D, Brumm J, Cheung W, Wahlestedt C, Lenhard B, Wasserman WW. (2008) Gene Characterization Index: Assessing the Depth of Gene Annotation. PLoS ONE 3(1): e1440 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001440 PMID 18213364
• Warren Cheung and Ghassan Hamarneh. Scale Invariant Feature Transform for n-Dimensional Images (n-SIFT). The Insight Journal, 2007 July - December, December 2007. 2568 views and 1240 downloads as of Oct 5, 2009 from http://hdl.handle.net/1926/1321.
• Warren Cheung and William Evans. Pursuit-Evasion Voronoi Diagrams in L1. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering (ISVD) 2007. pp.58-65.
• W. Cheung and G. Hamarneh. n-SIFT: n-Dimensional Scale Invariant Feature Transform for Matching Medical Images. In Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2007. pp.720-723. doi:10.1109/ISBI.2007.356953 323 downloads as of Oct 5, 2009 from the SFU MIAL project page.
• W. Cheung. Constrained pursuit-evasion problems in the plane. Master’s thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, September 2005.
• Klaas, Mike, Southey, Tristram and Cheung, Warren. 2005. Particle-Based Communication Among Game Agents. In Proceedings of the First Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference,pp.75-80. Menlo Park, Calif. AAAI Press.
• W. Cheung, J. Moses and W. Evans. Predicated Instructions for Code Compaction. SCOPES 2003, LNCS 2826. pp.17-32, 2003.

Posters and Presentations

• Christopher D. Fjell, Håvard Jenssen, Kai Hilpert, Warren A. Cheung, Nelly Panté, Robert E.W. Hancock and Artem Cherkasov. Optimization of antibacterial peptides by genetic algorithms and QSAR. 26th International Congress of Chemotherapy and Infection. June 19, 2009.
• Warren A. Cheung, BF Francis Ouellette, Wyeth W. Wasserman. Indirect Gene-Disease Association via Medical Subject Term Annotation of Literature Evidence
  • Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing 2009. March 13, 2009.
  • GenomeBC Forum. April 3, 2009.
  • 2nd Human Genetics Conference. May 25, 2009.
  • 4th Annual Canadian Genetic Epidemiology & Statistical Genetics Meeting. May 28, 2009.
  • CFRI Trainee Research Forum. June 18th, 2009
• Warren A. Cheung, BF Francis Ouellette, Wyeth W. Wasserman. Mining Literature Evidence for Predicting Gene-Disease Associations. Oral Presentation given at:
  • Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing (CSCBC) 2008. March 14, 2008.
  • TGIF Seminar at the CMMT. February 15, 2008.
• Warren A. Cheung, BF Francis Ouellette, Wyeth W. Wasserman. Mining Brain-Related Transcription Factor-Disease Relationships for Novel Linkages. Poster presented at:
  • Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Genetic Diseases Network (CGDN) 2007. April 20-21, 2007.
  • 1st Michael Smith Laboratories Poster Session. May 31, 2007.
  • Child & Family Research Institute Student Research Forum. June 21, 2007
  • Advancing Interdisciplinarity (CFIS Symposium). November 30th, 2007.
  • Genetics and Bioinformatics Retreat. December 5th, 2007.
• Warren A. Cheung and Ghassan Hamarneh. n-SIFT: n-Dimensional Scale Invariant Feature Transform for Matching Medical Images. Poster presented at the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) 2007, April 14, 2007.
• Warren A. Cheung and Wyeth W. Wasserman. Cis-Regulatory Elements for Purkinje Cell Specific Expression. Student Presentation at the Vancouver Bioinformatics User Group, January 11, 2007. VanBUG Screencast.

Review

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2010
• PLoS Computational Biology Sept 2009
• Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing 2009
• Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis 2008

Volunteer

• College for Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Student Association - Principal Liaison 2009-Present
• BC Registered Music Teacher's Association - Student Teacher's Auxilliary - Treasurer -Present
• Volunteer for Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry 2009
• Co-chair of the Canadian Student Conference on Biomedical Computing 2009
• Volunteer Organiser for the Genetics and Bioinformatics Graduate Retreat 2008, 2007
• Volunteer Organiser for the Genetics Retreat 2006
• Volunteer for IEEE Congress on Computational Intelligence 2006
• Volunteer for Symposium on Discrete Algorithms 2005
• Computer Science Graduate Student Association Representative on the Space Committee

Research Interests

• Algorithms
• Bioinformatics
• Data Mining
• Statistics
• Image Analysis