Maurice Ling's Professional Portfolio - Teaching Portfolio

                    CLS Lunch Time Sharing Session
CLS Sharing Session was originated before I joined Singapore Polytechnic and it is held every Friday lunch time during the term time for staffs to give a short talk (about 30 to 40 minutes). The topics is relatively free and easy, ranging from personal hobbies (such as cooking) to experiences in workshops to research work. This makes the mood friendly and lively and is quite different from the formal-typed lunch time seminars which I am used to in university. The current convenor is none other than Edison Loh.

I am currently shadowing Edison to learn from him to be the next convenor.

Here are the talks that I've given under this scheme and Edison (EJL) has kindly written a commentary to close each talk, which I will present here:

Title: Text Mining as a Research Support Tool (14 Nov 2008)

Thanks v[ery] much to Maurice who gave a very interesting talk on how text mining can reveal statistically significant relationships betw[een] the thousands of proteins & genes appearing on the millions of articles published on PubMed. These relationships may be translated into a visual binding network map which presents a systems overview of possible protein-protein & protein-gene interactions, resulting in possible leads for research.

What's really fascinating is that Maurice is doing his own programming to create this text mining cum visual mapping tool.

A very novel combination of computing, statistics & biotechnology indeed! (giving rise to the field "bioinformatics")

Title: Savings - The Foundation Stone to Wealth (4 Jul 2008)

Thank you very much to Maurice for sharing with us a few central ideas this afternoon on how each of us can build wealth.

Key suggestions include:-
  • Building one's assets
  • Reducing one's liabilities
  • Investing wisely & investing early
  • Understanding the power of compounded interest
  • Investing for the long term
  • Minimizing credit exposure & paying off all high-interest loans
  • Living & spending within your means
  • Diverting surpluses to asset creation

EJL's conclusion:-
"A simpler lifestyle focusing on needs (not wants) will help one build wealth esp in the early phase of one's career."