Chau-Wai Wong

Biography
Chau-Wai Wong received the B.Eng. degree with first class honors in 2008, and M.Phil. degree in 2010, both in electronic and information engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2017.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Forensic Sciences Cluster, North Carolina State University. He was a data scientist at Origin Wireless, Inc., Greenbelt, Maryland. He was a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland. He was a Research Associate/Assistant with the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include multimedia forensics, signal and image processing, machine learning, data analytics, and video coding.
Dr. Wong was the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards, including Top-4 Student Paper Award, Future Faculty Fellowship, HSBC Scholarship, and Hitachi Scholarship. He is a member of the IEEE and the APSIPA, and he was the general secretary of the IEEE PolyU Student Branch from 2006 to 2007. He was involved in organizing the third edition of the IEEE Signal Processing Cup in 2016 on electric network frequency forensics.
Education
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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
Research Focus
- Communications and Signal Processing
Funded Research
- Infrastructure for Decision-Making Experiments Involving Remote Participants
- Collaborative Research: RAPID: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Triage and Rehabilitation During Pandemics via Visual Based Patient Physiologic Sensing
- Contact-Free Heart Rate Monitoring from Video Under Motion
- Information Sciences: Computing Science: Intelligent Systems: Tractable Deep Learning: Structure vs. Scale in Data
Recent News

Technique Smooths Path for ‘Federated Learning’ AI Training in Wireless Devices
Posted on February 1, 2022 | Filed Under: News
A new federated learning technique from ECE researchers drastically reduces the size of data transmissions, creating new opportunities for wireless AI training.
This post was originally published in NC State News.

Chau-Wai Wong granted U.S. patent for Method to Detect Counterfeiting
Posted on September 20, 2021 | Filed Under: Research
Chau-Wai Wong was granted an award from University of Maryland and a U.S. patent for an innovative approach to detecting counterfeiting at a microscopic level.
Recent Media Mentions

Video-Style Compression Brings Federated Learning to Smartphones, Other Bandwidth-Limited Devices
February 17, 2022