第一九八期 No. 198 4.3.2002

CUHK Teacher Elected IEEE Fellow Prof. W.S. Wong of the Department of Information Engineering has recently been elected a fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, USA), an honour bestowed only on a few each year who have made enormous contribution to electronic and electrical engineering. This year, only two academics from Hong Kong were chosen to receive the honour. Prof. Wong was elected on the strength of his outstanding contributions to non-linear estimation systems and the application of relevant system theories to solving communications and information processing problems. Prof. Wong graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a combined MA BA degree in 1976. He then obtained his master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University in 1978 and 1980 respectively. He joined The Chinese University in 1992 and has been the chairman of the Department of Information Engineering since 1995. He has published over 90 papers in academic journals and conferences and has received two US patents. Prof. Wong's research interests include mobile communication systems, non-linear filtering, and information issues in estimation and control. Many of his projects are closely tied to Hong Kong's industry, and have attracted much funding support from the Research Grants Council and the Industrial Support Fund. He has been leading a project on a Chinese search engine called MoLi & ANSeRS, the core concept for which was patented by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2000. The search engine received the Certificate of Merit in Consumer Product Design of the Hong Kong Award for Industry in 1997. Prof. Wong's technology has been licensed to several technology companies, including Vitova, a local software company. The basic technology has been incorporated by Vitova in its document management products, including one that can automatically categorize documents based on key words. Vitova has recently formed a business partnership with Ricoh, a Fortune 500 company, based on these document management products.

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