Zeyar Aung @ I2R

General Info:

Department: Data Mining Department
Position: Research Fellow
Date of Join: 27-March-2006
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Database Indexing and Searching

Contact Info:

Office: 1 Fusionopolis Way, #21-01 Connexis, South Tower, Singapore 138632
Home: Blk 3C Pasir Panjang Road, #07-05, Singapore 118488
Telephone: +65-96996340 (mobile), +65-64082154 (office), +65-65041286 (home)
Official email: azeyar (at) i2r (dot) a-star (dot) edu (dot) sg
Personal email: zeyarag (at) gmail (dot) com

Education:

PhD (Computer Science), National University of Singapore, 2006 (Supervisor: Professor Tan Kian-Lee).
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honors 1st Class), University of Computer Studies, Yangon, Myanmar, 1999.

Scholarships and Awards:

Dean's Graduate Award, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2005.
Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, 2001-2004.
Rank 1st out of 61 Bachelor of Computer Science (Honors) graduates, University of Computer Studies, Yangon, Myanmar, 1999.
University Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Myanmar, 1994-1999.

Professional Services:

Reviewer of Journals:

Bioinformatics
Proteins: Structure, Funcation, and Bioinformatics
Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB)
Bioinformatics and Biology Insights (BBI)
Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics (GPB)
International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT)

Program/Review Committee Member:

ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Bioinformatics Track, 2009
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Bioinformatics Track, 2008
Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications (BioDM), 2007

External Reviewer of Journals:

BMC Bioinformatics

External Reviewer of Conferences:

CSB'09, EvoBio'09, BSBT'08, BIBM'08, BIBE'08, BCBGC'08, BIRD'07, SDM'07, ESCAPE'07, ICMLC'07, PRIB'07, LISSA'07, DS'06, ICTAI'06, ICDM'06

Publications:

Journal Papers

Z. Aung, S.H. Tan, S.K. Ng, and K.L. Tan, PPiClust: efficient clustering of 3-D protein-protein interaction interfaces, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 6:415-433, 2008. (pdf)
Z. Aung and K.L. Tan, Rapid retrieval of protein structures from databases, Drug Discovery Today, 12:732-739, 2007. (pdf)
Z. Aung and K.L. Tan, MatAlign: precise protein structure comparison by matrix alignment, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 4:1197-1216, 2006. (pdf)
Z. Aung and K.L. Tan, Automatic 3D protein structure classification without structural alignment, Journal of Computational Biology, 12:1221-1241, 2005. (pdf)
Z. Aung and K.L. Tan, Rapid 3D Protein structure database searching using information retrieval techniques, Bioinformatics, 20:1045-1052, 2004. (pdf)

Full-length Conference Papers

Z. Aung and J.C. Tong, BSAlign: a rapid graph-based algorithm for detecting ligand-binding sites in protein structures, Genome Informatics, 21:65-76, 2008. (the 19th International Conference on Genome Informatics; GIW'08) (pdf)
Z. Aung and J. Li, Mining super-secondary structure motifs from 3D protein structures: a sequence order independent approach, Genome Informatics, 19:15-26, 2007. (the 18th International Conference on Genome Informatics; GIW'07) (pdf)
Z. Aung, S.H. Tan, S.K. Ng, and K.L. Tan, Uncovering the structural basis of protein interactions with efficient clustering of 3-D interaction interfaces, in Proc. 6th International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB'07), pages 287-297, 2007. (pdf)
Z. Aung and K.L. Tan, Automatic protein structure classification through structural fingerprinting, in Proc. 4th IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE'04), pages 508-515, 2004. (pdf)
Z. Aung, W. Fu, and K.L. Tan, An efficient index-based protein structure database searching method, in Proc. 8th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'03), pages 311-318, 2003. (pdf)

Short Conference Papers/ Posters

C. Lim, S.L. Chua, X.F. Bong, C.G. Lim, S.Y.H. Lau, E.P. Wang, K.Y. Chung, V.P.Y. Wong, and Z. Aung, Rapid chemical database search: a filter-and-refine approach (poster paper), in Poster Proc. 18th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW'07), pages 90-91, 2007.
Z. Aung and K.L. Tan, Classifying protein folds using multi-level information of protein structures (short paper), in Proc. SIG-Structure Meeting, 3rd Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC'05), pages 11-12, 2005.

Thesis

Z. Aung, Computational Analysis of 3D Protein Structures, PhD Thesis, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2006.

Software:

S4: Server for Super-Secondary Structure Motif Mining (Web Server)
MatAlign: Detailed pairwise protein structure comparison tool (Windows, Unix)
ProtDex2: Rapid protein structure database searching tool (Windows, Unix)
ProtClass: Protein structure classification tool (Windows)

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Updated: April 30, 2009.