 | Prof. Thomas WongIllinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USAProfessor Thomas Wong is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). He received his B.Sc. (Eng.) degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1975, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in 1978 and 1980, respectively.Professor Wong is highly recognized in the fields of microwave engineering and materials science. His primary research interests include microwave measurement of material properties, dispersive transport in ionic conductors, transient electromagnetics, millimeter-wave communication systems, and nonlinear device measurement. Furthermore, he has collaborated extensively with national laboratories, contributing to the development of dielectric-loaded particle accelerators, nanoscale position sensors, and coupler design for superconducting cavity resonators. In recognition of his outstanding academic achievements, he was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow in 2025. |
 | Prof. Ka Chun WongCity University of Hongkong, ChinaProfessor Ka-Chun WONG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong and has been consistently recognized as one of the world's top 2% most highly cited scientists by Stanford University. He obtained his BEng and MPhil degrees from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, a department renowned for its Nobel Prize and Turing Award-winning contributions to modern AI (deep learning). Professor Wong's research spans a wide range of cutting-edge fields, with a focus on Data Science, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Computation, Applied Machine Learning, and Natural Computing. He is dedicated to solving complex interdisciplinary problems through high-impact computing. His work significantly contributes to several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Zero Hunger, Good Health and Well-being, and Clean Water and Sanitation. As a highly productive and influential scholar, Professor Wong has an h-index of 42 and over 5,700 citations on Scopus. He actively contributes to the academic community by serving as an Associate Editor for several prestigious international journals, including the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. |