News (2008)

News (2008)

IJDMMM

Dr. Carson K. Leung serves as an Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM).

ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2008

Dr. Carson K. Leung serves as the Local Workshop Chair for the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference 2008 (June 9-13, 2008 in Vancouver, BC, Canada). He takes care of all six international workshops for SIGMOD 2008.

C3S2E '08

On Monday, May 12, 2008, two lab members gave their presentations in C3S2E '08 held in Montréal, QC, Canada:

    • Mark Anthony F. Mateo presented the refereed paper titled "Design and development of a prototype system for detecting abnormal weather observations", which he co-authored with his academic supervisor (Dr. Carson K. Leung).

    • Boyu Hao presented the refereed paper titled "A computer-aided change detection system for paediatric acute intracranial haemorrhage", which he co-authored with his academic supervisor (Dr. Carson K. Leung) and their collaborators (Dr. Sergio Camorlinga from TRLabs; Drs. Martin H. Reed, Martin K. Bunge, Jens Wrogemann & Rick J. Higgins from HSC).

Both papers were published by the ACM Press.

DASFAA 2008

On Friday, March 21, 2008, Mark Anthony F. Mateo presented a refereed paper titled "CHARIOT: A comprehensive data integration and quality assurance model for agro-meteorological data", which he co-authored with his academic supervisor (Dr. Carson K. Leung), in DASFAA 2008 held in New Delhi, India.

Celebration of Excellence 2008

    1. Excellence of Dr. Carson K. Leung and two of his lab members were recognized at the Celebration of Excellence organized by UofM Faculty of Science held Thursday, January 31, 2008:

      • Congratulation to Dr. Carson K. Leung, who was recognized as one of the recipients for the successful renewals of NSERC Discovery Grants.

      • Congratulation to B.C.Sc.(Hons.) student Zhiyu Wang, who was recognized as one of the only six recipients of the Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA). Among these six recipients, he was the only one from Computer Science. Wang conducted a full-time 16-week research project in the area of data mining under the academic supervision of Dr. Carson K. Leung in the summer of 2007.

      • Congratulation to MSc student Mark Anthony F. Mateo, who was recognized as the sole recipient of a MITACS award and as a recipient of the University of Manitoba Graduate Scholarship (UMGS). Among all Master's and PhD students, he was one of the only six recipients to renew the UMGS.

    2. Faculty of Science Celebration of Excellence

        1. Faculty Awards

    3. NSERC Discovery Grants

    4. Renewals

        • Helen Cameron, Peter Graham, Carson Leung, Yanni Liu, Vojislav Misic, John van Rees (Computer Science)

        1. Departmental Awards

      1. COMPUTER SCIENCE

    1. MITACS

        • Mark Mateo

        1. Other Student Awards

    1. University of Manitoba Graduate Scholarships for Master’s and PhD Students

    2. Renewals

        • Amit Chhabra, Sameer Kumar, Mark Mateo, Varadharajan Pundi (Computer Science)

    1. Faculty of Science Undergraduate Student Research Awards

        • Adam Bookatz (Physics & Astronomy); Bich-Ngoc Nguyen (Mathematics); Zhiyu Wang (Computer Science); Shu Gao (Statistics); Ibrahim Sow and Vanessa Marx (Chemistry)