Education

  • PhD, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1987. Thesis: “An Intelligent Cell Memory System for Real-Time Engineering Applications". (Professor John Hannah)
  • BSc (Hon), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1983.


Professional Experience

  • Invited IT Weekly Columnist, Singtao Daily, since Jan 2021 (in Chinese)

  • Honorary Freelance Radio Co-host, Metro Finance Radio talk show, “Innovation Technology for New Economy (創科新經濟)”. (10:30pm-11:00pm, in Chinese), Oct 2019 – Nov 2020.

  • Co-Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor Program (EPIN), CUHK, 2018-

  • Associate Master, Wu Yee Sun College, 3/2016-

  • Associate Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, Faculty of BA, CUHK, 2010-

  • Director, MoE Key Laboratory on High Confidence Software Technologies, CUHK Sub-Lab, 2010 –

  • Freelance Columnist, various local Chinese newspapers, since 2006

  • Associate Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Engineering, 1/11/2004-

  • Professor, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK, (affiliated with Chung-Chi College, 8/2002-7/2012; and Wu Yee Sun College, 8/2012-)

  • Director, Center of Innovation and Technology, CUHK, 2002 –

  • Associate Professor, Dept. of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, CUHK, (affiliated with Chung Chi College), 7/1997-7/2002

  • Project Coordinator, Faculty of Engineering, (affiliated with Chung Chi College, 8/1993), CUHK, 5/1993-6/1997

  • Project leader, European Computer-Industry Research Centre (ECRC), Munich, Germany, 10/1991-4/1993

  • Post-doctoral Researcher, ECRC, Munich, Germany, 8/1989-9/1991

  • Software Engineer III, R&D section of Unisys (Livingston), Scotland, 1/1989-8/1989

  • Research Associate 1A, Department of Computer Science, Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, 9/1986-12/1988


Professional Societies

  • Fellow, Association of Computational Linguistics (FACL), 2020 
  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA (SMIEEE), 2013
  • Fellow of the British Computer Society, UK (FBCS), 2011
  • Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, UK (FIET), 2010
  • Fellow, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, HK (FHKIE), 2007
  • Fellow, Hong Kong Information and Technology Joint Council (HKITJC), 2007
  • Professional member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), USA, 1990
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng), 1990


Visiting and Guest Professorship

  • Sep 2011 - Aug 2016
    Honorary Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, China
  • 2010 - Present
    Director, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory on High Confidence Software Technologies, CUHK Sub-Lab
  • 2010 - Present
    Associate Director, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory on High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, China
  • May 2008 - Present
    Adjunct Professor, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory on High Confidence Software Technology, Peking University, China
  • May 2004 - Apr 2009
    Adjunct Professor, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
  • Oct 2000 - Sep 2001
    Visiting Scholar, National Laboratory on Machine Perception, Peking University, China


Main Research Interests

  • Chinese Information Processing
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Opinion Mining
  • Rumor Detection
  • Social Media Analysis


Awards and Honors

  • Prof. Kam Fai Wong won the award 2022 年中国中文信息学会科学技术奖: “钱伟长中文信息处理科学技术奖” 一等奖. This award is organized by Chinese Information Processing Society of China (中国中文信息学会)
  • KF Wong, Gabriel Fung, “Solitse –A Social Listening System to Understand Your Customert”, Silver Medal 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. March 22 2021
  • KF Wong, Fellow of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), Dec 2020.
  • KF Wong, Honorary Fellow, Hong Kong Professional Validation Council, Oct 2020. (香港工業專業評審局「2020榮譽院士」)
  • KF Wong, Gabriel Fung, Bo Li and Felix Liu, “SAMUL – A Toolkit for Sentiment Analysis for Multilanguage Application”, Silver Medal and Prize of Ministry of Science Research and Innovation, Romania, 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. April 2019
  • KF Wong, Gabriel PC Fung, Bo Li, Binyang Li, Zhongyu Wei, “Research and Development of INCOMIRS (Integrated Community-based Microblog Recommendation System)”, 3rd National Youth AI Innovation and Enterprise Summit – Innovation Award (First Prize), 20 Dec 2017.
  • KF Wong, Binyang Li and Ruifeng Xu et. Al. are awarded the 2017 MoE Technology Advancement Award, 2nd Prize, Ministry of Education, China, 2017. (announced on December, 2017)
  • Received Microsoft Research (MSR) Best Student Paper Award: “Recurrent Neural Networks with External Memory for Language Understanding”, CCF NLPCC2015, with Baolin Peng (PhD student), 10/2015
  • Awarded the “First Class Computer Technology Contribution Model” by the Shenzhen Computer User Association, December 2015 (獲深圳市計算機用戸協會於2015年12月頒授「一級計算機科技獻奬章」 )
  • Awarded by the Shenzhen Innovation Technology Council “Virtual University Campus Outstanding Project Investigator Honor Certificate”, December 2013 (被深圳市科技創新委員會評為深圳虚擬大學院2013年度獲得市級科技項目先進個人榮譽證書)
  • Awarded the Medal of Long Services by the Hong Kong Scout Association, 26 July 2013.
  • Received 2013-2014 Best Youth Technology Achievement Award: "Social Opinion Mining Platform", by Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI, cert. no.: YOF1ST-2013-A11), with Ruifeng Xu (HIT-SZ Professor). 2013.
  • Awarded the Medal of Honour (2011) by the Hong Kong Government for “valuable contribution to the development of information and communications technology.”, 1 July 2011.
  • Received the China Computer Federation Innovation Award 2005, December 20 2005, China. (National Science Award Association certificate no. 0131) [Project: “Wisers Knowledge Management and Content Service System”]
  • Won the 2003 World Summit Award (WSA’03), United Nation, Best Practice Product in e-Content and Creativity of Asia [Project: Wiser News]