K.F. Wong is Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Director of Centre for Innovation and Technology, and Associate Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also Director of Key Laboratory on High Confidence Software Technologies (Sub-Lab, CUHK), Ministry of Education, Honorary Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen and Adjunct Professor, School of Computer Technology, Peking University.
His research interest focuses on Chinese natural language processing and database. He has published over 260 technical papers in these areas in different international journals and conferences and books. He is a senior member of IEEE, fellows of BCS (UK), IEE (UK) and HKIE. He is the founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing (TALIP), and International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing.
K.F. is very active in professional activities and social services. He serves as Member, The 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference; Chairman, ICT Advisory Committee, HK Scout Association; Member of the Consumer Council, Non-official Member, Airport Technology Advisory Council of the Hong Kong International Airport; Member of Radio Television Hong Kong Board of Advisors; and Member of The Hong Kong Society for the Aged Advisory Committee on ICT Development.
