Raymond T. Ng

Raymond T. Ng is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and serves as Director of the Data Science Institute. In addition, he is the part-time Chief Informatics Officer at the PROOF Centre of Excellence for the Prevention of Organ Failures located at St Paul’s Hospital. Since 2016 he has held the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Data Science and Analytics.

Education

• B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science, University of British Columbia, 1986
• M.Math. Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1988
• Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 1992

Research Interests

Professor Ng’s research lies at the intersection of data mining, text mining, health informatics, sensor analytics, and databases. Over the past decade he has focused on two major domains:

• Genomics & Biomarker Discovery: Developing multi-omics biomarker panels for heart, lung and kidney transplant rejection and COPD exacerbations using transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics data.
• Natural Language Processing: Mining and summarizing conversational text such as emails, blogs and meeting transcripts to generate structured metadata and actionable insights.

Scientific Awards

• Canada Research Chair in Data Science and Analytics (2016-2026)
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGMOD 2004
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGKDD 2001
• Selected among Best Papers of VLDB ’99 & ’98
• Governor General’s Gold Medal, UBC (1986)

Research Funding & Leadership

Since joining UBC in 1992, Professor Ng has continuously secured major peer-reviewed funding from NSERC, CIHR, Genome Canada, CFI, MITACS and industry partners (Google, IBM, SAP). He leads or co-leads several large-scale initiatives:

• HEARTBiT multi-marker blood test for cardiac transplant rejection (CIHR 2018-2021)
• MERIDIAN ocean acoustic data infrastructure (CFI 2018-2021)
• Pan-Canadian Early Detection of Lung Cancer (Terry Fox 2018-2021)
• Business Intelligence Network (NSERC 2009-2014)
• Multiple Genome Canada programs on biomarker translation (2004-2018)

Laboratories & Teams

Professor Ng directs the Data Science Institute and works closely with the Natural Language Processing Research Group. At the PROOF Centre he heads a multidisciplinary team of statisticians, computer scientists and clinicians advancing computational biomarker pipelines from discovery to clinical implementation.