Professor Chin, Francis Y.L.

About

Professor Chin has retired from HKU in 2015 and is now an Emeritus Professor of The University of Hong Kong. He is now working as Founder and Chief Solution Officer of a startup company, DeepTranslate Limited , on Machine Translation of financial documents at Hong Kong Science Park.

Selected publications

• Yu Peng, Henry C.M. Leung, S.M. Yiu, Xin-Guang Zhu, Ming-Zhu Lv and Francis Y.L. Chin, IDBA-Tran: A More Robust de novo de Bruijn Graph Assembler for Transcriptomes with Uneven Expression Levels, The 21th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 12th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2013), Berlin (July 2013)
• Yi Wang, Henry C.M. Leung, S.M. Yiu and Francis Y.L. Chin, MetaCluster 5.0: A two-round Binning Approach for Metagenomic Data for Low-abundance Species in a Noisy Sample, The 11th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2012), Bali, Switzerland, also in Bioinformatics
• Yu Peng, Henry C.M. Leung, S.M. Yiu and Francis Y.L. Chin, T-IDBA: A de novo Iterative de Bruijn Graph Assembler for Transcriptome, Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2011), Vancouver (March 2011)
• Yu Peng, Henry C.M. Leung, S.M. Yiu and Francis Y.L. Chin, Meta-IDBA: A de Novo Assembler for Metagenomic Data, The 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 10th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2011), Vienna, July 2011, also in Bioinformatics
• Yu Peng, Henry C.M. Leung, S.M. Yiu and Francis Y.L. Chin, T-IDBA: A de novo Iterative de Bruijn Graph Assembler for Transcriptome, Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2011), Vancouver (March 2011)
• Joseph Wun-Tat Chan, Francis Y. L. Chin, Deshi Ye and Yong Zhang, Absolute and Asymptotic Bounds for Online Frequency Allocation in Cellular Networks, Algorithmica, 58(2): 498-515 (October 2010) - preliminary version appeared in SPAA 2007
• Yu Peng, Henry C.M. Leung, S.M. Yiu and Francis Y.L. Chin, IDBA - A Practical Iterative de Bruijn Graph De Novo Assembler, Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2010), Lisbon, Portugal (August 2010)
• Francis Y.L. Chin, Zeyu Guo and He Sun, Minimum Manhattan Network is NP-Complete, Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2009), Aarhus, Denmark 393-402 (June 2009)
• Mee Yee Chan, Wun-Tat Chan, Francis Y.L. Chin, Stanley P.Y. Fung, and Ming-Yang Kao, Linear-time Haplotype Inference on Pedigrees without Recombinations and Mating Loops, SIAM Journal of Computing, 38(6): 2179-2197 (March 2009) - preliminary version appeared in WABI 2006