Alexander Wong (scientist)

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Alexander Wong
NationalityCanadian, Chinese
Alma mater University of Waterloo
Known forArtificial Intelligence, quantitative explainable AI (XAI), automatic machine learning (AutoML)
Scientific career
Doctoral advisor David Clausi, Paul Fieguth
Website http://eng.uwaterloo.ca/~a28wong

Alexander Wong is a professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering and a Co-Director of the Vision and Image Processing Research Group at the University of Waterloo. He is the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging, [1] a Founding Member of the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada [2] and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. [3] He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, [4] a Fellow in the International Society for Design and Development in Education, [5] a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health [6] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. [7]

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Education

Wong was educated at the University of Waterloo, where he holds a BSc in computer engineering, a MSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a PhD in systems design engineering. He held an NSERC postdoctoral research fellowship at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Ontario Canada. [8]

Career

Wong has authored and co-authored over 600 scientific articles and holds over 30 patents and patent applications in various fields ranging from computational imaging to artificial intelligence, and computer vision to multimedia systems. [9] Wong is particularly noted for his significant research contributions in quantitative explainable AI (XAI), trust quantification, automatic machine learning (AutoML), and computational imaging methods such as correlated diffusion imaging [10]

Selected publications

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References

  1. Profile. Alexander Wong Canada Research Chairs. Retrieved February 20, 2023
  2. "Ren and Wong named to Royal Society of Canada". Water Institute. 1 October 2018.
  3. "Recently Elected Fellows". www.theiet.org. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  4. "Prof earns prestigious physics fellowship". Waterloo Engineering. 29 August 2023.
  5. "Prof made a Fellow of educational materials society". Waterloo Engineering. 29 August 2023.
  6. "Prof earns entry into group of global health fellows". Waterloo Engineering. 29 August 2023.
  7. "Prof becomes Fellow of world's largest medical society". Waterloo Engineering. 29 August 2023.
  8. "CJECE - Associate Editors". IEEE . Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  9. "Alexander Wong".
  10. Wong, Alexander; Gunraj, Hayden; Sivan, Vignesh; Haider, Masoom A. (2022). "Synthetic correlated diffusion imaging hyperintensity delineates clinically significant prostate cancer". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 3376. arXiv: 2108.04427 . Bibcode:2022NatSR..12.3376W. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-06872-7. PMC   8888633 . PMID   35232991.
  11. https://encord.com/blog/yolo-object-detection-guide/ YOLO Object Detection Guide