Dr. SIO IONG AO ("區小勇" in Chinese)

Ph.D. University of Hong Kong;
Post-doc Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford &
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University;
Former Visiting Professor, Cranfield University, UK & University of Wyoming, USA
Fellow, Institute of Managers and Leaders ANZ
Fellow, International Association of Engineers
 

 

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Former Post-doc, Harvard University
Oxford
University of Oxford
HKU
University of Hong Kong
CUHK
Chinese University of Hong Kong (B.Sc. (Hons.) and M. Phil. degrees)

Editor-in-chief of Journals: Engineering Letters, IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics, IAENG International Journal of Computer Science
Founder and Chairman, Newsbook Limited and Time Mini Storage (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 Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Dr. Ao is a former Visiting Professor, Cranfield University, U.K. & University of Wyoming, USA. He is the founder and chairman of a leading web hosting and internet application development corporation in Hong Kong. He is also the founder and chairman of a leading mini-warehouse corporation in Hong Kong. Dr. Ao was selected as one of the Tenth Outstanding e-Entrepreneurs (1999) and 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. They are freeware (free software) that enable the medical researchers to conduct their complex disease analysis with no charge. Dr. Ao's research interests are mainly on the big data problems, like data mining algorithms, intelligent systems and their applications, and have published more than one hundred books on these domains, including the authored monographs Data Mining and Applications in Genomics (Springer), and Applied Time Series Analysis and Innovative Computing (Springer). Dr. Ao has been promoting the open-access publications of research works for many years, publishing open-access books and organizing open-access journals and proceedings lectures.


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)
https://www.engineeringletters.com/editors/SIAO/CLUSTAG/CLUSTAG.htm

WCLUSTAG – An advanced tag SNP selection program which takes account of both functional and linkage disequilibrium information
https://www.engineeringletters.com/editors/SIAO/WCLUSTAG/WCLUSTAG.htm

Note:
The freeware CLUSTAG and WCLUSTAG is one of the two tools listed in Wikipedia for tag SNP selection (Retrieved 9 March 2024), while the minimax linkage criterion proposed in the projects CLUSTAG and WCLUSTAG is listed in Wikipedia as one of the seventeen commonly used linkage criteria in hierarchical clustering (Retrieved 9 March 2024).

Our proposed minimax linkage criterion has achieved satisfactory results in benchmark testing like the following conclusion "Minimax linkage was first introduced by Ao et al. (2004) in 2004, as an alternative to standard linkage methods used in hierarchical clustering ... Similarly to Bien and Tibshirani (2011), we find that minimax linkage often produces the smallest distances to prototypes, meaning that objects in a cluster are tightly clustered around their prototype. This is true across a range of values for the total number of clusters (k) ..." from the recent comprehensive evaluation "Benchmarking Minimax Linkage in Hierarchical Clustering" by Xiao Hui Tai and Kayla Frisoli (In: Data Analysis and Rationality in a Complex World, Springer International Publishing, 2021).

Universities across America and Europe have incorporated our proposed minimax linkage into their artificial intelligence (AI) undergraduate courses as standard teaching materials, because of the unique desirable properties associated with minimax linkage criterion. For example, two of the top three universities in AI over the world (U.S. News & World Report - Grad Schools: Rankings for Computer Science Program and AI Specialty; retrieved 11 March 2024), i.e., Carnegie Mellon University (#1 in AI) & Stanford University (#3 in AI), have taught the minimax linkage in their undergraduate AI courses like: Data Mining (Carnegie Mellon), Statistics & Data Science Undergraduate Program (Carnegie Mellon), and Unsupervised Learning (Stanford).

Other computer scientists have conducted follow-up research and developed libraries for implementing minimax linkage hierarchical clustering in the popular AI programming language Python (pyminimax in GitHub: https://github.com/beginnerSC/pyminimax ) and in the popular AI and data analysis programming language R ( R Project: https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/FCPS/html/MinimaxLinkageClustering.html ).


Books Published (Partial lists; over one hundred books in total):

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-8975-6

ISBN: 978-90-481-8768-3; Total Downloads: 11k; Citations: 8

Ao, Sio Iong. Applied Time Series Analysis and Innovative Computing. Springer. 2010.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-8768-3

ISBN: 978-1-4020-8975-6; Total Downloads: 5720; Citations: 6

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-8919-0

ISBN: 978-1-4020-8919-0; Total Downloads: 58k; Citations: 37

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-74938-9

ISBN: 978-0-387-74938-9; Total Downloads: 39k; Citations: 47

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-74905-1

ISBN: 978-0-387-74905-1; Total Downloads: 74k; Citations: 22

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-74935-8

ISBN: 978-0-387-74935-8; Total Downloads: 35k; Citations: 70

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-9532-0

ISBN: 978-1-4020-9532-0; Total Downloads: 12k; Citations: 21

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-2311-7

ISBN: 978-90-481-2311-7; Total Downloads: 141k; Citations: 141

Ao, Sio Iong, Oscar Castillo and Xu Huang (Eds.). Intelligent Automation and Computer Engineering. Springer. 2010.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-3517-2

ISBN: 978-90-481-3517-2; Total Downloads: 28k; Citations: 53

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-8776-8

ISBN: 978-90-481-8776-8; Total Downloads: 92k; Citations: 117

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

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-3177-8

ISBN: 978-90-481-3177-8; Total Downloads: 69k; Citations: 15

Ao, Sio Iong, Burghard Rieger and Mahyar A. Amouzegar (Eds.). Machine Learning and Systems Engineering. Springer. 2010.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-90-481-9419-3

ISBN: 978-90-481-9419-3; Total Downloads: 137k; Citations: 69

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 (Eds.). 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 (Eds.). 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 (Eds.). 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.

Ao, Sio Iong, Alan Hoi-shou Chan, Hideki Katagiri and Li Xu (Eds.). IAENG Transactions on Electrical Engineering Volume 1 - Special Issue of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2012. World Scientific. 2012.

Ao, Sio Iong, Alan Hoi-shou Chan, Hideki Katagiri and Li Xu (Eds.). IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences: Special Issue of the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2013 and World Congress on Engineering 2013. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis). 2014.

and more (published over one hundred books in total) ...

Note:

(1) The publisher Springer has released the official download number of the electronic version of the book and its citation number thought the Springer Link webpage dedicated to the book (all data retrieved on March 18, 2024);

(2) The sum of the official download numbers for all my forty-one books published by Springer: 1.55 million times;

(3) Many of my books have been frequently ranked among the top 25% most downloaded eBooks in the publisher Springer's respective eBook Collection;

(4) The sum of the official citation numbers for all my forty-one books published by Springer: 1702;

 

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