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Professor Ho, Joshua Wing Kei 何永基

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Associate Professor

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Professor Ho, Joshua Wing Kei 何永基

Title:
Associate Professor

Short Biography:

Dr Ho is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Prior to joining HKU, he was the Head of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia. He was also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney. Dr Ho completed his BSc (Hon 1, Medal) and PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Sydney, and undertook postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on developing fast and reliable bioinformatics methods to identify the genetic cause and mechanism of various human diseases using a range of approaches such as whole genome sequencing, single-cell RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, machine learning, systems biology, cloud computing, and software testing and quality assurance. Dr Ho has over 70 publications, including first or senior-author papers in leading journals such as Nature, Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research and Science Signaling. His research excellence has been recognized by the 2015 NSW Ministerial Award for Rising Star in Cardiovascular Research, the 2015 Australian Epigenetics Alliance’s Illumina Early Career Research Award, and the 2016 Young Tall Poppy Science Award.

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
University of SydneyBSc in Bioinformatics (Hon 1, Medal)
University of SydneyPhD in Bioinformatics
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
04/2008-04/2021MemberInternational Society for Computational Biology
04/2016-08/2018SecretaryAustralian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society
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