2022:

1. December 30, 2022: Mingyang is visiting Dr. Chen at TDU for a month.
2. December 29, 2022: Goodbye to Yanjun and Hongxiang, all the bests!
3. November 21, 2022: Congratulations to Mingyang for being awarded Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship.
4. September 24, 2022: Goodbye to Jing, all the bests!
5. September 22, 2022: Congratulations to Mingyang for being awarded Jeffrey R. Sampson Memorial Graduate Prize.
6. September 19, 2022: Congratulations to Mingyang for being awarded GSA Academic Travel Grant.
7. September 1, 2022: We welcome Sichen and Shashank on board.
8. August 16, 2022: We thank summer research assistants Curtis, Xiang, Matthew, Navdeep, Gemmary, Harry, Kush, Yinying and Brett for their contributions to several projects.
   Curtis and Xiang will continue to work with us into the Fall term.
9. May 2, 2022: We warmly welcome Undergrad Research Assistants Curtis, Xiang, Matthew, Navdeep, Gemmary, Harry, Kush and Brett.
10. April 19, 2022: Our alumnus Zhipeng is early promoted to Full Professorship. Congratulations!
11. April 6, 2022 We warmly welcome visiting scholar Dr. Xianyu Yu from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

2021:

1. December 29, 2021: We warmly welcome visiting scholar Dr. Yanjun Jiang from Ludong University and visiting doctoral student Hongxiang Zhang from Beijing University of Technology. They will collaborate with us for a year. Enjoy your stay!
2. October 12, 2021: We warmly welcome Xiang, Terence and Curtis to re-join our Algorithms project.
3. September 27, 2021: We warmly welcome visiting scholar Dr. Jing Fan from Shanghai Polytechnic University. She will collaborate with us for a year. Enjoy your stay!
4. September 21, 2021: Sangita successfully defended her MSc thesis today. Congratulations!
5. August 24, 2021: We thank summer research assistants Kelly, Kaye, Curtis, Thang, Shivam, Xiang, Akrash, and Terence for their contributions to three different research projects.
6. August 23, 2021: Sangita will join Stemcell Technologies in October.
7. August 7, 2021: We warmly welcome doctoral student Mingyang on board.
8. May 1, 2021: We warmly welcome several NSERC USRA awardees (Kelly, Kaye) and Undergrad Research Assistants (Curtis, Thang, Shivam, Xiang, Akrash, Terence) to join our research team for the spring and summer! We would like to add that we will continue to work with students from CMPUT 201!

2020:

1. November 28, 2020: Goodbye to Dr. Liguo Wang; all the best!
2. September 13, 2020: Goodbye to Dr. Qiaojun Shu.
3. August 20, 2020: Goodbye to Dr. Shuguang Han; all the best! We also thank summer research assistants Cody, Qianqiu, Rylan and Wyatt for their contributions to four different research projects.
4. August 13, 2020: Goodbye to Dr. An Zhang; all the best! We also thank Alex and Arthur for their excellent contributions.
5. July 2, 2020: We warmly welcome Alexander Cai (HIP) and Arthur Gao (HIP) on board!
6. May 1, 2020: We warmly welcome Cody Hennig (USRA), Qianqiu Zhang (URI), Rylan Chin (USRA) and Wyatt Carlson (USRA) on board! We would like to add that we will continue to work with students from CMPUT 201!

2019:

1. December 2, 2019: Dr. Liguo Wang, a CSC Scholar, from the Beihua University, will visit us for a year. Welcome!
2. October 19, 2019: Congratulations Arthur for his early admission into our university.
3. September 14, 2019: Dr. Qiaojun Shu with Hangzhou Dianzi University will visit us for a year. Welcome!
4. August 22, 2019: Goodbye Wenchang! Job well done and hope see you again next summer!
5. August 18, 2019: Dr. Shuguang Han with Zhejiang Sci-Tech University will visit us for a year. Welcome!
6. August 18, 2019: Goodbye Jianming! Hope see you again next summer!
7. August 15, 2019: Good luck and have a successful new academic year Alice at McGill!
8. August 14, 2019: Dr. An Zhang, a Professor of Mathematics with Hangzhou Dianzi University and a CSC Scholar, will visit us for a year. Welcome!
9. August 9, 2019: Good luck Arthur!
10. July 28, 2019: We warmly welcome Jianming's visit.
11. July 22, 2019: We warmly welcome Wenchang's visit.
12. July 8, 2019: We warmly welcome Ketong and Alice on board.
13. July 2, 2019: We warmly welcome Arthur (HIP) and Jiabin on board.
14. May 10, 2019: Yao will join the Department of Computer Science at the Kettering University. Congratulations to Yao!
15. January 21, 2019: Yao successfully defended her PhD thesis today. Congratulations to Dr. Xu!

2018:

1. October 1, 2018: Have a nice trip back to Iizka, Tsuyoshi, all the bests!
2. September 1, 2018: We warmly welcome Dr. Eiji Miyano and Tsuyoshi Yagita from KIT!
3. September 1, 2018: All the bests to Drs. Longcheng Liu, Zhi-Zhong Chen, Guanqun Ni, Yong Chen, and An Zhang; Longcheng spent his last 12 months with us, Guanqun spent six months with us, Zhi-Zhong, Yong and An visited us over the summer. See you all again soon, somewhere!
4. July 31, 2018: We warmly welcome Dr. Zhi-Zhong Chen from TDU for a 1-month visit.
5. July 20, 2018: We warmly welcome Drs. Yong Chen and An Zhang from Hangzhou Dianzi University for a 2-month visit.
6. February 27, 2018: We warmly welcome Dr. Guanqun Ni from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. He will visit us for 6 months, supported by the Education Department of Fujian Province.

2017:

1. November 6, 2017: Congratulations to Yao, the Runner-Up for the 2017 CS Early Achievement Award (PhD).
2. September 4, 2017: All the bests to Drs. Guochuan Zhang, Jueliang Hu, Jianming Dong, Shuguang Han, Yinfeng Xu, Bing Su, Wenchang Luo, and Hiroshi Eto, who visited us over the summer. See you soon!
3. August 28, 2017: We warmly welcome Dr. Longcheng Liu from Xiamen University. He will stay with us for a year, supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).
4. August 4, 2017: We warmly welcome Dr. Guochuan Zhang (ZJU) and Dr. Hiroshi Eto (Kyushu U).
5. August 1, 2017: We warmly welcome Dr. Bing Su and Dr. Yinfeng Xu's (DHU) visits.
6. July 2, 2017: We warmly welcome Drs. Shuguang Han, Jueliang Hu and Jianming Dong; all three are from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and will visit us for two months.
7. June 28, 2017: We warmly welcome Dr. Wenchang Luo from Ningbo University (visiting for two months).
8. May 4, 2017: Congratulations to Yining, now Dr. Wang! on a very successful PhD defense today. Yining will take up a PDF position in Agriculture next.
9. February 13, 2017: All the bests to Yong, a CSC scholar, and thanks for staying with us for a year!

2016:

1. December 20, 2016: Yao is awarded Dean's Excellent PhD Research, valued a half RA. Congratulations!
2. September 8, 2016: We warmly welcome Huijuan on board, pursuing PhD in the next four years.
3. August 12, 2016: All the bests to Wenchang, a CSC scholar spending his last 12 months with us!
4. August 8, 2016: Dr. Guangting Chen with Hangzhou Dianzi University and Taizhou University stays with us for two weeks; warmly welcome.
5. May 2, 2016: We warmly welcome Boyuan and Parash on board.
6. April 20, 2016: Yining passed his candidacy exam today. Congratulations to Yining!
7. March 18, 2016: We warmly welcome Dr. Taibo Luo on board. Taibo is our PDF working on the Brain Canada project.
8. March 15, 2016: Yining won the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research 2016 Graduate Student Teaching Award. Congratulations and great job!
9. February 15, 2016: We warmly welcome Dr. Yong Chen from Hangzhou Dianzi University. He will stay with us for a year, supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).

2015:

1. August 10, 2015: We warmly welcome Dr. Wenchang Luo from Ningbo University. He will stay with us for a year, supported by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).
2. July 17, 2015: Weitian successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations to Weitian!
3. July 8, 2015: We warmly welcome Dr. Tian Liu from Peking University to visit us.
4. June 18, 2015: Chenqu successfully defended his MSc thesis today. Congratulations to Chenqu! Chenqu will be working for Google after he leaves us. All the bests!
5. May 19, 2015: Weitian will join the Georgia Southern University (in Statesboro, Georgia) in August as an Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences. Congratulations Weitian!
6. January 2, 2015: We warmly welcome Yao Xu and Taibo Luo on board.

2014:

1. June 25, 2014: Weitian passed his candidacy exam. Congratulations to Weitian!
2. June 4, 2014: Weitian has been selected to receive an Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship, commencing September.
3. May 5, 2014: Yifan Song from University of Waterloo joins us as an Undergrad Research Assistant and works on converting combinatorial optimization problems into games. Welcome Yifan!
4. April 8, 2014: Tim will join the University of Texas-Pan American in August as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Congratulations Tim!

2013:

1. December 4, 2013: Dr. Huili Zhang from Xi'an Jiaotong University joins us. Welcome Huili!
2. November 11, 2013: Our former member Yi will join the School of Medicine at the Shanghai Jiaotong University as an Assistant Professor, commencing February. Congratulations Yi and all the bests in the new position!
3. September 1, 2013: Ronghong works for EMC now. Good luck!
4. August 23, 2013: We welcome Rong (University Graduate Entrance Awardee), Chenqu, and Xiao on board!
5. June 1, 2013: Dr. Timothy Wylie from Montana State joins us as a PDF. Most warm welcome Tim!
6. May 24, 2013: Ronghong successfully defended his MSc thesis today. Congratulations to Ronghong!
7. February 7, 2013: Our former member Zhipeng has received an NSF Career Award 2013. Congratulations!

2012:

1. August 28, 2012: Weitian won the 2012/13 department PhD Early Achievement Award. Congratulations to Weitian!
2. August 9, 2012: Dr. Zhendong Shao from UWO will join us in September as a PDF.
3. August 2, 2012: Yi successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations to Yi, Dr. Shi now!
4. April 23, 2012: Yi will be a PDF at the University of Southern California, joining Dr. Zhou's group. Congratulations to Yi!
5. April 10, 2012: Zhipeng is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia State University. Congratulations to Professor Cai!

2011:

1. December 16, 2011: Jianjun comes back as a PDF starting January 2012. Welcome back Jianjun!
2. April 29, 2011: Yi passed his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations to Yi!
3. April 28, 2011: Yining successfully defended his master thesis today. Congratulations to Yining! Yining will stay to continue on his doctoral study.
4. April 19, 2011: Hadi successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Congratulations to Hadi, Dr. Sabaa now!
5. March 4, 2011: Zhong successfully defended his master thesis today. His thesis was also recommended for awards by the defense committee. Congratulations to Zhong!

2010:

1. July 22, 2010: Our former group member Yongxi is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University. Congratulations and all the bests to Yongxi!
2. May 27, 2010: Hadi passed his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations to Hadi!
3. April 2, 2010: Xiaoping joins us as a visiting student from CAS. He will stay with us for a year.
4. March 29, 2010: Our former group member Zhipeng received an NSERC Postdoc Fellowship. Congratulations to Zhipeng!

2009:

1. November 25, 2009: Jiaofen will join Virtual Marine Technology next month. Congratulations to Jiaofen, and all the bests!
2. August 25, 2009: Jiaofen successfully defended her master's thesis. Congratulations to Jiaofen! She will continue to work on the genomics selection for the ABGP.

2008:

1. December 8, 2008: Jianjun successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Jianjun!
2. November 3, 2008: Gang successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Gang, for all your efforts been paid off!
3. August 18, 2008: Zhipeng successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Zhipeng!
4. May 1, 2008: Zhipeng received the 2008 Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Award. Congratulations to Zhipeng!
5. April 2, 2008: Hadi with the 2007/08 Provost Doctoral Entrance Award joined our group to pursue his PhD degree. Welcome on board, Hadi!

2007:

1. November 20, 2007: Zhipeng received 2007 Department Ph.D. Outstanding Research Achievement Award for his distinctive research in the past year. Congratulations to Zhipeng!
2. July 30, 2007: Yi passed his MSc defense. Congratulations to Yi!
3. June 26, 2007: Jianjun passed his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations to Jianjun!
4. May 20, 2007: Yi received the 2007/08 Provost Doctoral Entrance Award. Congratulations to Yi!
5. April 16, 2007: Gang will take up a Software Engineer position at SMART Technologies on May 1. He will come back to defend his thesis in about six months. Congratulations to Gang, and the same, good luck!
6. April 16, 2007: Xiaomeng will take up a Backend Software Engineer position at Yahoo soon. She will come back to defend her thesis in about a year. Congratulations to Xiaomeng, and good luck!
7. April 11, 2007: Zhipeng received the 2007 Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Award. Congratulations to Zhipeng!
8. March 1, 2007: Yi was nominated for 2007 MSc Research Award. Congratulations to Yi!
9. February 15, 2007: Jiaofen received the 2007/08 University Graduate Entrance Award. Congratulations to Jiaofen, and welcome on board!
10. February 22, 2007: Xiaomeng passed her PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations to Xiaomeng!
11. January 24, 2007: Zhipeng passed his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations to Zhipeng!

2006:

1. December 20, 2006: Junfeng successfully defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations to Junfeng!
2. July 17, 2006: Xiang successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations to Xiang!
3. May 11, 2006: PSAtip (Protein NMR Sequential Assignment through integer programming) is released. Testings and feedbacks are more than welcome!
4. April 29, 2006: Xiang Wan and Lin's paper on GASA and Xiaomeng Wu, Goebel, Wan, and Lin's paper on HIV-1 genotyping are accepted by LSS CSB 2006.
5. April 27, 2006: Yang, Zhipeng Cai, Li, and Lin's paper on gene selection is (formally) accepted by BMC Bioinformatics, and appears as 7(2006): 228.
6. April 4, 2006: Zhipeng received 2006 PhD Research Award. Congratulations to Zhipeng!

2005:

1. July 25, 2005: Jianjun and Gang received 2005/2006 PhD Research Award. Congratulations to Jianjun and Gang!