The Second Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC2004)

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Philip E. Bourne, University of California San Diego

Synopsis

Philip E. Bourne PhD is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego, Director of Integrative Biosciences at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, Co-director of the Protein Data Bank, an Adjunct Professor at the Burnham Institute and the Keck Graduate Institute and the Immediate Past President of the International Society for Computational Biology and an elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Bioinformatics, on the Advisory Board of Biopolymers and a long standing member of the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health panels responsible for reviewing proposals relating to biological infrastructure. He is a member of the National Committee for crystallography and past chairman of the International Union of Crystallography Computing Commission IUCrCC and past chairman of the American Crystallography Association (ACA) Computing Committee.

Bourne's professional interests focus on bioinformatics and structural bioinformatics in particular. This implies algorithms, metalanguages, biological databases, biological query languages and visualization with special interest in cell signaling and apoptosis.

Prof. David Dagan Feng, Chair Professor of Information Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Synopsis

David Dagan Feng received his PhD degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 1988. After briefly working as assistant professor in USA, he joined the University of Sydney, Australia, as lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, and then professor and director of the Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Group. He is the former Head of Department of Computer Science and founding Head of School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney. He joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a professor in 1997 and is currently Chair-Professor of Information Technology, Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as well as honorary Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney, honorary Research Consultant at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, the largest hospital in Australia, guest Professor of Tsinghua University, and advisory Professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University. He has published over 300 scholarly research papers, pioneered several new research directions, made a number of landmark contributions in his field with significant scientific impact and social benefit, and received the Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering. More importantly, however, is that many of his research results have been translated into solutions to real-life problems and have made tremendous improvements to the quality of life worldwide. He is a Fellow of ACS, HKIE, IEE and IEEE, special area editor of the IEEE Transaction of Information Technology in Biomedicine, and is the current chairman of IFAC-TC-BIOMED.