Big Data, Big Impact Grant for David Skillicorn
Congratulations to Queen’s School of Computing Professor David Skillicorn on being awarded a Big Data, Big Impact Grant by The Cancer Institute NSW and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead (Australia) for a project entitled: Generating Actionable Knowledge from Complex Genomic Data for Personalised Clinical Decisions.
David is joined by a team of 10 researchers: McCowage, G., Li, J., Felix Navarro, K.M., Bowden, N., Simoff, S.J., Robertson, T.J., Khan, J., Catchpoole, D.R., Nguyen, Q., Kennedy, P.J.
School of Computing NSERC Funding – 100% Success
Our School of Computing researchers have all been successful in their application for NSERC Discovery funding. Congratulations to Drs. Blostein, Hassan, Hassanein, Vertegaal and Zulkernine who will continue their research programs for another five years.
In addition, Dr. Vertegaal was singled out as the recipient of an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement. The purpose of the Accelerator program is to provide additional Discovery funding in order to encourage quicker results in research important to Canada.
New Funding for Manuela Kunz
Congratulations to Dr. Manuela Kunz on her successful application to the NSERC Research Tools and Instruments program. Dr. Kunz and her co-investigators, Drs. Fichtinger, Ellis, Stewart, Mousavi and Deluzio, will receive funding to purchase valuable equipment for “A system for real-time, portable 3D medical imaging acquisition for interdisciplinary research.” This unique system will support a wide range of research, including image-guided interventions, advanced cartilage repair techniques in knee and ankle joints, computer-aided diagnosis and detection of cancer and human motion analysis. Much needed and well done!
Al MacLeod Has STYLE
The fashion sense of our very own stylish professor Alan McLeod is featured in this article from the Queen’s Journal.
Ahmed Hassan Named Tier 2 Canada Research Chair
The Queen’s News Centre features an article highlighting the work of the School’s own Ahmed Hassan. Dr. Hassan has been awarded the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Software Analytics. Read the whole story here.
5th Annual Queen’s Computing Invitational High School Programming Contest
Area high schools entered five teams of students in the fifth annual programming contest hosted by the Queen’s School of Computing, and held on March 31, in co-operation with the Limestone District School Board, the Algonquin & Lakeshore District Catholic School Board, and the Upper Canada District School Board. The contest consisted of a set of four programming problems which the teams had to try to solve in three hours. The winning team was from Frontenac Secondary School in Kingston, coached by Mr. Mark Lee, and second place was taken by the team from Brockville Collegiate Institute, coached by Mr. Rod MacDonald. Well done, all, and thanks to contest organizers Richard Linley and Lynda Moulton!
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Photos by Dave Dove.