Alexander Wong (scientist)
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]
Alexander Wong | |
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| Nationality | Canadian, Chinese |
| Alma mater | University of Waterloo |
| Known for | Artificial Intelligence, quantitative explainable AI (XAI), automatic machine learning (AutoML) |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral advisor | David Clausi, Paul Fieguth |
| Website | http://eng.uwaterloo.ca/~a28wong |
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.[4]
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.[5] 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[6]
Selected publications
- Kumar, Devinder; Wong, Alexander; Clausi, David A. (June 2015). "Lung Nodule Classification Using Deep Features in CT Images". 2015 12th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision. Halifax, NS, Canada: IEEE: 133–138. doi:10.1109/CRV.2015.25. ISBN 978-1-4799-1986-4. S2CID 10423518.
- Wong, Alexander; Clausi, David A. (May 2007). "ARRSI: Automatic Registration of Remote-Sensing Images". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 45 (5): 1483–1493. Bibcode:2007ITGRS..45.1483W. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2007.892601. ISSN 0196-2892. S2CID 3134193.
- Wang, Linda; Lin, Zhong Qiu; Wong, Alexander (11 November 2020). "COVID-Net: a tailored deep convolutional neural network design for detection of COVID-19 cases from chest X-ray images". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 19549. arXiv:2003.09871. Bibcode:2020NatSR..1019549W. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-76550-z. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7658227. PMID 33177550.
- Mishra, A.; Wong, A.; Bizheva, K.; Clausi, D. A. (2009). "Optica Publishing Group". Optics Express. 17 (26): 23719–23728. doi:10.1364/oe.17.023719. PMID 20052083. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- Shafiee, Mohammad Javad; Chywl, Brendan; Li, Francis; Wong, Alexander (18 September 2017). "Fast YOLO: A Fast You Only Look Once System for Real-time Embedded Object Detection in Video". arXiv:1709.05943 [cs.CV].
- Orchard, Jeff; Ebrahimi, Mehran; Wong, Alexander (October 2008). "Efficient nonlocal-means denoising using the SVD". 2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing: 1732–1735. doi:10.1109/ICIP.2008.4712109. ISBN 978-1-4244-1765-0. S2CID 2490560.
References
- Profile. Alexander Wong Canada Research Chairs. Retrieved February 20, 2023
- "Ren and Wong named to Royal Society of Canada". Water Institute. 1 October 2018.
- "Recently Elected Fellows". www.theiet.org. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- "CJECE - Associate Editors". www.ewh.ieee.org. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
- "Alexander Wong".
- 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.
External links
- Website
- Alexander Wong publications indexed by Google Scholar