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"If I didn’t do it first, I want to do it better." It's me!
Besides research, I spend most of my time in
(day-)dreaming. Let's see what Einstein says about this:
"Imagination is more
important than knowledge."
A short biography
Shirley
W. I. Siu was born in Macau. She completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree
in Software Engineering at University of Macau. In 2006, she received
her second M.Sc. degree from the Center of Bioinformatics at Saarland
University. Afterwards, she joined the Theoretical and Computational
Membrane Biology group at the same University where she received her
PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Physics Department in 2010. Then,
she continued one-year of post-doctoral training in the Computational
Biology group at the University of Erlangen. She was the recipient of
the academic excellence award in Macau Foundation Prize for First Honor
Degree graduates in UM in 1997, the fellowship award in the Max Planck
Research School for Computer Science from 2003-2005, and the doctoral
scholarship in the Graduate School of Physics at Saarland University
from 2006-2009.
Currently, she is an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer and Information Science and the lab supervisor
of the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lab at University of
Macau. Her research involves theoretical study and computer
simulations of
biomolecular processes with the aim of explaining and predicting the
behavior of complex systems. She is also interested in machine learning
and its application to problems in drug discovery, medical decision
making, and bioinformatics.
Education
- 2010 Ph.D (Dr. rer. nat.) in Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Saarland University, Germany
- 2006 M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, Center for Bioinformatics in Saarland University & Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany
- 2001 M.Sc. in Software Engineering, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
- 1997 B.Sc. in Software Engineering, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
Positions
- 2012-present Assistant professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
- 2009-2012 Senior instructor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
- 2010-2011 Post-doc, Computational Biology Group, University of Erlangen, Germany
- 2001-2003 Junior lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
- 1997-2001 Teaching Assistant, Department of
Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
Hobbies
Planning and traveling, swimming, listening to music
Contact
Shirley W. I. Siu
Room 4025, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST)
University of Macau, E11
Avenida da Universidade, Taipa
Macau, China