Funded Projects
  • Principal Investigator, An empirical framework for robust machine learning systems and its application in AI4L, Cybersecurity for Logistics program, National Research Council Canada, 2023-2025.
  • Principal Investigator, Privacy preserving synthesized data releasing via generative adversarial networks, NSERC Discovery Grant (Discovery Accelerator Supplement), 2019-2023
  • Principal Investigator, Secure query answering for outsourced databases in cloud computing, NSERC Discovery Grant, 2014-2018
  • Co-Principal Investigator (with Martin Ester, Cenk Sahinalp, and Jiangchuan Liu), Computational infrastructure for cloud computing, computational biology and data mining, NSERC Research Tools and Instrument (RTI) Grant 2014 ($110,711).
  • Principal Investigator, Prediction of distribution feeder outages caused by storms, Collaborative Research and Development Grants, NSERC/BChydro, 2013-2016
  • Co-Principal Investigator (with Uwe Glasser), Anomaly Detection in Spatiotemporal Data in Maritime Security, Collaborative Research and Development Grants, NSERC/MDA, 2013-2016
  • Principal Investigator, Knowledge Based Identification of PCB Transformers in Power Systems, Collaborative Research and Development Grants, NSERC/BChydro, 2010-2013
  • Principal investigator, Data Privacy Preservation at Digital Information Age, Discovery Grant, NSERC, 2009-2013
  • Principal Investigator, Statistical Approaches for Cleaning BCTC Load Data, Collaborative Research and Development Grants, NSERC/BCTC, 2009-2011
  • Co-principal Investigator (with Martin Ester, Cenk Sahinalp), Computational Infrastructure for the Data mining and Bioinformatics, NSERC RTI grant 2010 ($120,000)
  • Principal Investigator, MTTACS Accelerator Programs, 2009
  • Co-principal investigator, Genomics Data Mining for Personalized Medicine Group, 2007 MSFHR Team Planning Awards
  • Co-principal investigator, Teaching Grant from Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co, 2006
  • Principal investigator. Data Mining in Marketing and Services for CIBC. Collaborative Research and Development Grant, NSERC and CIBC, 2006-2007.
  • Principal investigator. Actionable Data Mining. NSERC, 2004-2008
  • Principal investigator. Privacy Protection Opportunities in Data Mining. IRIS Emerging Opportunities Fund. Networks of Centres of Excellence/Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, 2003-2004
  • Co-principal investigator. New Frontiers in Data Mining. Networks of Centres of Excellence/Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems) Phase III, 2002-2005. Website
  • Principal investigator. A System Approach to Data Mining. NSERC, 2000-2004
  • BC Ministry of Competition, Science, and Enterprise, 2002
  • BC Ministry of Competition, Science, and Enterprise, 2003
  • Co-principal investigator. Data Mining and Intelligent Data Analysis Research. National Science and Technology Board and Ministry of Education, Singapore, 1998-2001
  • Principal investigator. Discovering Structural Information from WWW. Academic Research Grants, National University of Singapore, 1997-2000
  • Principal investigator. Discovering Knowledge from Large Volume of Data. Academic Research Grants, National University of Singapore, 1996-1999