This is the homepage of Tak-Wah Lam.
Tak-Wah Lam graduated with a BSc in Computer Science from
the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 and received his MS & PhD in
Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1988. Since then he has been with the University of
Hong Kong. He is now a professor in the
Department of Computer Science. He was
an associate dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2001 to 2006. He has
received several teaching awards from the department and faculty, and more
recently an outstanding supervisor award from the university.
Tak-Wah’s research is mainly on the design and analysis of
algorithms for different applications.
His work has spanned the areas of compressed text indexing,
computational biology, and scheduling. Fourteen
doctoral students have graduated under his supervision. A few of them remained as academics in Hong
Kong or overseas. Apart from theoretical work, he is keen on collaborating with
the genomics industry, like BGI and Novogene, on
applying some latest data structures and algorithms to build advanced software
tools for bioinformatics. The most
recognized example is the alignment software SOAP2/SOAP3/SOAP3-dp.
Outside
of work, he enjoys playing basketball and tennis with his two sons. Due to his back & shoulder problems, he
disciplines himself to go to the swimming pool regularly. More recently, he has quitted practicing Tai
Chi due to knee pain.
Tracking
the PhD students:
· Dinghua Li (2017): TuSimple
·
Ruibang Luo (2015): UEC >> Johns Hopkins U
·
Chi-Man Liu (2015): L3 Bioinformatics
·
Rongbin Li (2014): Rocket Fuel Inc., US
· Sze-Hang Chan (2013):
HKU >> ??
· Lap-Kei Lee (2009):
MPI Germany >> HKU >> Open U
· Alan S.L. Tam (2009): Apple, Hong Kong >> Apple, US
·
Ho-Leung
Chan (2007): U of Pittsburgh, USA >> MPI, Germany >> HKU >>
Morgan Stanley
·
Wing-Kai
Hon (2004): Purdue University, USA >> Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
·
Prudence
W.H. Wong (2002): HKU >> U of Liverpool, UK
·
Isaac
K.K. To (2000): HKU >> Outblaze, HK >> U
of Liverpool, UK >> Cluster Technology, HK
·
Ken W.K. Sung (1998): Yale
University, USA >> National U of Singapore, Singapore
·
Ka-Hing Lee (1996): Hewlett Packard, HK
·
Joe
K.W. Chong (1995): MPI, Germany >> HKU >> Cluster Technology, HK
Recent Grants:
2015
Innovation & Technology Fund (ITF) PSTS, A genomic and Pharmaceutical
Knowledge-based System for Clinical Diagnosis and Case Repository, HK$ 3.2M
2013
Innovation & Technology Fund (ITF), A genomic and Pharmaceutical
Knowledge-based System for Clinical Diagnosis and Case Repository, HK$ 5.85M
2012
Research Grants Council (GRF): Ultrafast SNP-sensitive & Gap-sensitive
alignment of short reads to human genome via better indexing, HK$ 620K
Publications: See DBLP or Google
Scholar for a full list
Bioinformatics software:
MEGAHIT: An ultra fast
single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct
de Burijn graph. Bioinformatics 2015.
Database.bio: A web application for interpreting human variations. Bioinformatics
2015.
BALSA: Integrated secondary analysis for
whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing, accelerated by GPU. PeerJ 2014.
MICA: A fast short-read aligner that takes
full advantage of Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture (MIC). BMC
Bioinformatics 2015
SOAPdenovo2: An empirically improved
memory-efficient short-read de novo assembler. BMC GigaScience
2012.
SOAP3-dp: Fast, Accurate and Sensitive GPU-based Short Read Aligner. PLOS ONE 2013.
GLProbs: Aligning
multiple sequences adaptively. ACM-BCB 2013.
BWT-SW: Compressed indexing and local
alignment of DNA. Bioinformatics
2008.