Profile:
Prof. K.
Max Wong received his BSc(Eng), DIC, PhD, all in
electrical engineering, from the University of London, England, in 1969, 1972,
and 1974 respectively. He started working at Plessey Telecommunications
Research Ltd., England,
in 1969. In October 1970 he was on leave from Plessey pursuing postgraduate
studies and research at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. In 1972, he
rejoined Plessey as a research engineer and worked on digital signal processing
and signal transmission. In 1976, he joined the Department of Electrical
Engineering at the Technical University of Nova Scotia as an assistant
professor, and in 1981, moved to the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at McMaster as an associate professor. He was promoted to the rank
of Professor in 1985 and served as Acting Chairman of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1986-87, then as Chairman for two
consecutive terms in 1988-94, and again as Chair from 2003-08. Prof. Wong was
on leave as Visiting Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering of
the Chinese University
of Hong Kong in 1997-99. He held the NSERC-Mitel Professor of Signal Processing from 2000-2003, and
since 2004, he has been the Canada Research Chair in Signal Processing at McMaster University. He has been the leader of
the research group Advanced Signal Processing for Communications for
many years and was also the director of the Communication Technology
Research Centre, a newly founded research establishment funded by the
Canadian Foundation of Innovation.
Prof. Wong
is recognized as a leading expert in signal processing and is
renowned in statistical signal processing and in time-frequency signal analysis
and design. He has published over 250 technical papers in leading journals and
international conferences. His earlier pioneering researches include the first
fast implementation of order statistical filters and high resolution array
processing algorithms in unknown noise. He also pioneered the utilization of wavelets
and solitons for waveform coding in multi-user data
communications. His recent interests include the application of convex
optimization techniques in signal processor and communication system design, as
well as the application of differential geometry to biomedical signal
classification. Prof. Wong holds honorary professorships from the Southeast
University, China, and from the Chinese
University of Hong
Kong. He has also been invited as distinguished lecturer by
various universities in N. America, Europe and the Far
East. In 1995, in a ceremony presided by Her Royal Highness
Princess Anne, the degree of DSc(Eng) was bestowed upon him by the University
of London, England, in recognition of his international authority stature in
the area of signal processing. Prof. Wong has also been an associate editor of IEEE
Transactions in Signal Processing, an authoritative journal in the field.
He has given numerous keynote addresses in international symposiums and
workshops, and has been chair of the technical committees of major
international conferences. He is the recipient of the Overseas Premium from IEE, UK, for the best paper published in 1989, and is
the co-author of the papers which received the “IEEE Signal Processing
Society Best Young Author Award” in both 2006 and 2008. He received a
medal from the International Biographical Centre, UK, for his contributions to the
research and education of signal processing and was honoured with the inclusion
of his biography in the two books: Outstanding People of the 20th
Century and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th
Century published by IBC to celebrate the arrival of the new millennium. In
2009, Prof. Wong was named a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy
of Engineering, UK. In 2010, he was named a recipient of the prestigious
International Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and was
received in Berlin by Horst Köhler, President
of the Federal Republic of Germany. Prof. Wong was elected a Fellow
of IEEE for his contributions to the research of sensor array and multi-channel
signal processing. He is also a Fellow of IEE, a Fellow of Inst. of Physics,
and a Fellow of Royal Statistical Society, and is a registered Professional
Engineer in the Province
of Ontario. More recently, he has also been elected
Fellow of the Canadian
Academy of Engineering,
as well as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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