WONG Lim Soon

WONG Lim Soon is the KITHCT Chair Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He also served as Deputy Dean of the NUS Graduate School and currently directs the Integrative Sciences and Engineering Programme. His career spans significant contributions to database theory, computational biology, and knowledge discovery technologies.

Education:

• B.Sc. (Engineering) in Computing Science, First Class Honours, Imperial College London
• Ph.D. in Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

His research interests intersect computational biology, database theory, and knowledge discovery. He focuses on enhancing proteomic profile analysis, addressing confounders in omics data, predicting transcription factor interactions, and rethinking synchronized iteration in programming languages. His work aims to improve biomarker reproducibility in proteomics and design robust statistical methods for omics analysis.

His recent publications highlight advancements in genomic data processing, proteomics, and database algorithms. Key themes include non-equijoin efficiency, batch effect normalization, and protein family prediction in low-similarity regimes.

Scientific Awards & Honours:

• Fellow of the ACM, 2013
• ICDT 2014 Test of Time Award (with Peter Buneman and Val Tannen)
• FEER Asian Innovation Gold Award, 2003 (with Allen Yeoh, Huiqing Liu, and Jinyan Li)
• Singapore Youth Award Medal of Commendation, 2006

Limsoon co-founded Molecular Connections in India and has chaired the company for over a decade, growing it into a 2,000-person organization. His research is supported by grants from Singapore’s National Research Foundation and Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund (Tier-1 and Tier-2). He also develops open-source tools like Synchrony DBModel and GMQL implementations in Scala/Python.