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Raymond Kwok-Kay Wong
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| Current Role |
Project/Program Leader at National ICT Australia
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| Current Duties |
Conducting high-quality research and proposing innovative projects Liaising with UNSW and approving scholarships for database research students Supervising PhD students Managing and commercialising research projects Mentoring project team members Budgeting, planning, reporting project activities to NICTA Building external collaborations with the research projects Proposing, planning and establishing a database research program at NICTA
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| Contact |
Postal: Dr. Raymond Wong, School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Australia. or Courier: Dr. Raymond Wong, NICTA, Level 4, 223 Anzac Pde, Kensington NSW 2052, Australia. Phone: +612 8306 0530 Fax: +612 9385 5995 Email: wong@cse.unsw.edu.au or raymond.wong@nicta.com.au
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| Qualifications |
Ph.D. in Computer Science (1997), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology M.Phil. in Computer Science (1994), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, with Sir Edward Youde Graduate Fellowship B.Sc. in Computer Science & Mathematics (1993), Australian National University
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Work Experience |
2004-current National ICT Australia, Project/Program Leader (working to setup
a Database Research Program at NICTA) 2004-current Green Pea Software Pty Ltd (Founder) 2001-2004 Soda Technologies Pty Ltd (founded with Government's Commercialization Grant), Co-founder 2000-current University of New South Wales, Senior Lecturer 1998-2000 University of Sydney, Lecturer 1997-1998 Stanford University, Research Associate 1997-1997 Macqaurie University, Associate Lecturer 1996-1996 UCLA, Visiting Scholar 1994-1996 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Assistant Computer Officer 1993-1995 Pointer Graphics Ltd, Co-founder 1995-1996 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Demonstrator 1993-1995 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Teaching & Research Assistant
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Professional Services |
Organizing/Program committee member of ACM DocEng, ACM SAC, APWeb, DASFAA, IEEE BIBE, IASTED Conferences, ...
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Academic Administration |
School Teaching Cluster Coordinator (Databases) DBGroup Seminar Coordinator |
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Industrial Consulting Experience |
Database Applications XML and Content Management Middleware Solutions Electronic & Mobile Commerce Internet Technologies
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Courses Taught |
Database Systems XML Databases Database Systems Implementation Electronic Commerce Information Retrieval Introduction to Programming Programming Languages
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PhD Students |
Michael Barg, Cooperative Query Processing and Optimization for Web Databases, Year start: 2000. Graduated: 2003. Enjun Jing, Multi-lingual Query Processing for Heterogeneous Internet Information Sources, Year start: 2000. Franky Lam, Modeling, Processing and Optimization of Multidimensional Data in Data Warehouse, Year start: 2000. Graduated: 2005. Desh Peramunetilleke, Textual Data Mining for Financial Applications, Year start: 1999. William Shui, Utilization of Genomic Data and Functions in Bioinformatic Databases, Year start: 2001. Wei Yao, High-dimensional Spatial Data Structures and Applications, Year start: 2003. Jun Zhou, Peer-to-Peer Database Systems, Year start: 2003. Hao He, Role-based XML Security Control, Year start: 1999. Graduated: 2000. (MSc by Research) |
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Distinguished Honours Graduates |
Those awarded with The University Medal: (Click here for the full list of honours graduates under my supervision): Damien Fisher, Issues in Physical XML Database Design , 2003. Nicole Lam, Efficient Content-based Version Management for XML Data , 2002. Jason Sankey, Knowledge Discovery From Semistructured Data , 2000. Michael Barg, Automatic User Profile Construction for Cooperative Query Answering , 1999. James Curran, Transformation-Based Learning in Shallow Natural Language Processing , 1999.
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Research Interests |
Database Systems:
Design, implementation and applications of semistructured databases.
Sequence and bioinformatic databases.
Design, implementation and applications of object-oriented databases. Information Mediation: Information exchange and integration from heterogeneous data sources. Design, architecture and implementation of middleware systems. Applications and Others: Data mining. Electronic commerce. Mobile commerce. Manufacturing systems.
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Research Grants |
2005-2007 NICTA Research Project Grant, A$850,000 2005-2005 Goldstar Award, Universal Repository for Heterogeneous Bioinformatic Data Sources. A$30,000 2005-2005 Goldstar Award, Statistics Estimation for XML Data. A$30,000 2004-2004 Faculty Research Grant, Processing and Optimization of Ordered Stream Data, A$14,000 2003-2004 Faculty Innovative Teaching Method and Technology Grant, A$10,000 2003-2003 Faculty Research Grant, Resource Integration and Utilization for Bioinformatics, A$17,000 2002-2002 University Capital Grant, For 64bit, multi-CPU database server for the DBGroup, A$80,000 2002-2002 University Research Support Grant, Resource Integration and Utilization for Bioinformatics, A$19,000 2001-2002 Australian COMET Grant (for SODA Technologies), A$125,000 2001-2001 University Research Support Grant, Heterogeneous Information Integration and Exchange, A$16,500 2000-2002 Australian Research Council Large Grant, Multi-dimensional data modeling, A$170,000 2000-2001 Research Infrastructure Grant, XML Databases, A$150,000 2000-2000 Australian Research Council Small Grant, Internet Information Integration, A$22,000 2000-2000 University Research Support Grant, Cooperative Query Processing, A$20,000 1999-1999 Sydney University Research Travel Grant, A$1,500 1997-1997 Macquarie University New Staff Research Grant, A$14,000
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Invited Talks |
1996 Cobase Group, UCLA, hosted by Prof. Wesley Chu. 1997 Database Group, Stanford University, hosted by Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina. 1998 CIMIC, Rutgers University, hosted by Prof. Nabil Adam and Prof. Vijay Atluri. 1998 Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, hosted by Prof. Bob Kummerfeld. 1998 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle, hosted by Dr. Michael Hannaford. 1998 Department of Computing, Macquarie University, hosted by Prof. Michael Johnson. 2000 Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA - hosted by Vishu Krishnamurthy. 2002 ASTRI, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited - hosted by Prof. Roland Chin. 2003 Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Chawla. 2003 Thomson Legal & Regulatory Limited, Sydney - hosted by Hao He. 2003 ANU and CSIRO Canberra - hosted by Dr. Patrick Hung. 2004 Hong Kong Baptist University - hosted by Dr. William Cheung. 2004 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - hosted by Dr. Patrick Hung. 2004 Microsoft Research Asia - hosted by Network Research Group. 2005 CSIRO Sydney - hosted by Cecile Paris. 2005 TOWER Software User Forum - hosted by TOWER Software. |
| 92 Refereed Research Publications | Available upon request |