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Alexander Wong (scientist)

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Alexander Wong
NationalityCanadian, Chinese
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
Known forArtificial Intelligence, quantitative explainable AI (XAI), automatic machine learning (AutoML)
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorDavid Clausi, Paul Fieguth
Websitehttp://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]

Education

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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

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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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  • 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. pp. 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). "Intra-retinal layer segmentation in optical coherence tomography images". Optics Express. 17 (26): 23719–23728. Bibcode:2009OExpr..1723719M. 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. pp. 1732–1735. doi:10.1109/ICIP.2008.4712109. ISBN 978-1-4244-1765-0. S2CID 2490560.

See also

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References

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  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
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