Dr. SIO IONG AO ("區小勇" in Chinese)

(Photo taken at Dr. Ao's Harvard office in 2008)	Harvard University
	University of Oxford
	University of Hong Kong
	Chinese University of Hong Kong (B.Sc. (Hons.) and M. Phil. degrees)

Editor of Journals: Engineering Letters, IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics, IAENG International Journal of Computer Science
Co-founder and Director, Newsbook Limited and Contemporary Mini-Warehouses (timemini.com)

Dr. Ao obtained his PhD from the University of Hong Kong, and finished his post-doctoral research in Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, and Initiative in Innovative Computing, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. He has been one of the founders and the IT director of a leading web hosting and application development corporation in Hong Kong. Dr. Ao was selected by a Hong Kong newspaper: the Sing Tao Newspaper as one of the Tenth Outstanding e-Entrepreneurs (SME section, 1999). He has also appeared in other interview reports including the front-page interview by PC Market, and those by Hong Kong Economic Times, PCWorld Hong Kong, PCXpress, PCWeekly, and PC.com etc.

His other honors included: (1) Selected for the First Edition of Who's Who in Asia (Marquis Who's Who, 2006); (2) Selected for the 25th Silver Anniversary Edition of Who's Who in the World (Marquis Who's Who, 2008); (3) Selected for 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 2008); (4) Commended for the Thirty-Fourth Edition of the Dictionary of International Biography (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 2007), and; (5) Selected for the Who's Who in the World (Marquis Who's Who, 2010) etc.

Dr. Ao is the principal developer of the genomics software CLUSTAG and WCLUSTAG, which have been adopting by the medical researchers for their complex disease analysis. His research interests are mainly on the data mining algorithms, intelligent systems and their applications, and have published more than thirty books on these domains, including the authored monographs Data Mining and Applications in Genomics (Springer), and Applied Time Series Analysis and Innovative Computing (Springer).

Software in Medical Sciences (Principal Developer)
CLUSTAG – A program with cluster and set-cover algorithms to obtain a set of tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/~mng/CLUSTAG/CLUSTAG.html

WCLUSTAG – An advanced tag SNP selection program which takes account of both functional and linkage disequilibrium information
Download version: http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/~mng/WCLUSTAG/WCLUSTAG.html
Real-time online version: http://bioinfo.hku.hk/wclustag/

Books Published (Partial lists):

Ao, Sio Iong. Data Mining and Applications in Genomics. Springer. 2008.

Ao, Sio Iong. Applied Time Series Analysis and Innovative Computing. Springer. To be published in 2010.

Ao, Sio Iong, Xu Huang and Ping-kong Alexander Wai (Eds.). Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science. Springer. 2009.

Ao, Sio Iong and Len Gelman (Eds.). Advances in Electrical Engineering and Computational Science. Springer. 2009.

Ao, Sio Iong, Burghard B. Rieger and Su-Shing Chen (Eds.). Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis. Springer. 2008.

Yuh-Shyan Chen, Xu Huang and Ao, Sio Iong (Eds.). Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering. Springer. 2008.

Alan H.S. Chan and Ao, Sio Iong (Eds.). Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Springer. 2008.

Oscar Castillo, Li Xu and Ao, Sio Iong (Eds.). Trends in Intelligent Systems and Computer Engineering. Springer. 2008.

Ao, Sio Iong, Burghard Rieger and Mahyar A. Amouzegar (Eds.). Advances in Machine Learning and Data Analysis. Springer (to be published in 2010).

Ao, Sio Iong, Oscar Castillo and Xu Huang. Intelligent Automation and Computer Engineering. Springer (to be published in 2010).

Ao, Sio Iong and Len Gelman (Eds.). Electronic Engineering and Computing Technology. Springer. (to be published in 2010).

Ao, Sio Iong (Ed.). Advances in Electrical and Electronics Engineering - IAENG Special Edition of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008. IEEE Computer Society. 2009.

Ao, Sio Iong, Alan Hoi-shou Chan, Hideki Katagiri, Oscar Castill and Li Xu (Ed.). IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies Volume 3 - Special Edition of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2009. American Institute of Physics. 2009.

Ao, Sio Iong, Burghard Rieger and Mahyar A. Amouzegar (Ed.). IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies Volume II - Special Edition of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2008. American Institute of Physics. 2009.

Ao, Sio Iong, Alan Hoi-shou Chan, Hideki Katagiri, Oscar Castill and Li Xu (Ed.). IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies Volume I - Special Edition of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2008. American Institute of Physics. 2009.

Ao, Sio Iong, Mahyar A. Amouzegar and Su-Shing Chen (Eds.). Current Themes in Engineering Technologies: World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science: Selected Papers. American Institute of Physics. 2008.

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