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Background

Having completed the Post-Secondary Advanced Level Education in Science (Biology Group) at the New Method College in Hong Kong, Dr. Leo Wang-Kit Cheung moved to Canada to continue his education. Dr. Cheung received his B.Sc. in Mathematics (courses also fulfilled the requirements for the Statistics Major) from the University of Winnipeg with the University Silver Medal in Science and the University Gold Medal in Statistics. He received his M.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Manitoba, and was awarded the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship for his Ph.D. studies. With his intense interests in the interface among Statistics, Computer Science, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, he worked on novel probabilistic, statistical and computational approaches for pattern recognition in genomes for his Ph.D. dissertation. Dr. Cheung received his Ph.D. in Statistics (Ph.D. Thesis: Statistical Pattern Recognition in Genomic DNA Sequences) from the University of Manitoba, and moved to the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii (CRCH) at the University of Hawaii to start his faculty position as an Assistant Professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. He has been working as a consultant specializing in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology since 1995. In 2004 Dr. Cheung established the Informatics Shared Resource (ISR) at the CRCH, served as the Director of ISR (ISR was one of the newest Informatics/Bioinformatics Core facilities funded by the National Cancer Institute), and also started his adjunct appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. In 2006 Dr. Cheung moved to the Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC) of Loyola University Chicago to lead a Bioinformatics Program.

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