Vlad

• is Invited RIKEN Scientist for 2005 and 2006
• was a member of the Advisory Committee for assessment of predictions at ENCODE Gene Prediction Workshop 2005 (Sanger Institute).
• serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Knowledge Engineering & Discovery Institute, Auckland, New Zealand, from 2003
• is co-winner of the Ethicon Surgical Book Prize (Laboratory) at National Health Group Congress 2004, Singapore (N Kothandaraman, VB Bajic,  A Loganath, S Koh, J Ng, M Choolani, K Razvi, Early detection of epithelial ovarian cancer using a proteomics-based protein-profiling approach combined with a novel selection strategy, Ann. Acad. Med. Singap. 33(5):S59-S60, 2004)
• has been promoted to Principal Scientist (highest grade) of the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), Singapore, in April 01, 2003,
• has been an elected role model of the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), Singapore, for 2002,
• has developed algorithms for Dragon Promoter Finder, Dragon Gene Start Finder, Dragon ERE Finder, Dragon Motif Builder, and has designed a number of systems for functional analyses in genomics, such as Dragon TF Association Miner, Dragon Metabolome Explorer, Dragon Disease Explorer, Dragon Explorer of Estrogen Responsive Genes Functionality, Dragon TF Interaction Miner, Dragon TF Integrator, Dragon REGULOME database, etc
• was an Extraordinary Professor of Bioinformatics, South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI),
• is a Member of the Academy of Nonlinear Science (Russia) from 1997
• likes cheese-mushroom prata and orange-mango juice with no ice.