Chau-Wai Wong

Biography

Chau-Wai Wong received his B.Eng. degree with first-class honors in 2008, and an M.Phil. degree in 2010, both in electronic and information engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2017.

He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Forensic Sciences Cluster, and Secure Computing Institute, North Carolina State University. He was a data scientist at Origin Wireless, Inc., Maryland, USA. He was a Research Assistant with the University of Maryland. He was a Research Associate/Assistant with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include machine learning, multimedia forensics, signal and image processing, data analytics, and video coding, with a recent focus on federated learning and generative models.

Dr. Wong was the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards, including an NSF CAREER Award, Top Paper and Student Paper Awards, HSBC Scholarship, and Hitachi Scholarship. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the APSIPA. He is an elected member of IEEE IFS TC (2024–26), IEEE MSA TC (2022–26) and APSIPA IVM TC (2020–24). He was a technical program committee (TPC) chair for IH&MMSec’25, an area chair for ICME’21–24, a workshop chair for MIPR’22, a tutorial chair for VCIP’20, and an area chair for MIPR’19. He has given tutorials at WIFS’21, CVPR’22, ICASSP’23, and MIPR’24. He was involved in organizing the third edition of the IEEE Signal Processing Cup in 2016 on electric network frequency forensics.

Education

• Ph.D. 2017
  Electrical Engineering
  University of Maryland, College Park
• Master's 2010
  Electronic and Information Engineering
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Bachelor's 2008
  Electronic and Information Engineering
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong