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Ka-Chun Wong

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Ka-Chun Wong
Born
🏳️ CitizenshipHong Kong SAR
🎓 Alma mater
  • CUHK (BEng,MPhil)
  • University of Toronto (PhD)
💼 Occupation
🏅 Awards
  • Stanford's top 2% most highly cited scientists (2022 Nov, Version 5)
  • ACM Distinguished Speaker Program (2019-2022)
  • Elected Governor (APNNS)
🌐 Website

Ka-Chun WONG is a Hong Kong scientist working in Bioinformatics and Data Science.

He is a professor known for his research in Sequence motif and Natural computing. He also teaches bioinformatics and data science courses in Hong Kong.

Education

Ka-Chun Wong was born and raised in Hong Kong. As the first generation under Mother-tongue education in Hong Kong, he managed to score multiple A grades in Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination and Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination including (Pure Mathematics and Physics) in English. With such scores, he had choices for admission into all majors in Hong Kong. After graduating from United College at CUHK with a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering and a Master of Philosophy in Computer Science and Engineering, he moved to KAUST for a one-year break next to the Red Sea on the side of Saudi Arabia. Then, he did a PhD in Computer Science at University of Toronto in 3 years.

Research

He does research in the field of bioinformatics and data science. In particular, his research is best-known for regulatory genomics, evolutionary computation, single-cell transcriptomics, and cancer informatics.

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