RAYMOND K. WONG

Full Name Raymond Kwok-Kay Wong

Current Role Project/Program Leader at National ICT Australia

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

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

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

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

Professional
Services
Organizing/Program committee member of
ACM DocEng, ACM SAC, APWeb, DASFAA, IEEE BIBE, IASTED Conferences, ...

Academic
Administration
School Teaching Cluster Coordinator (Databases)
DBGroup Seminar Coordinator
Industrial
Consulting
Experience
Database Applications
XML and Content Management
Middleware Solutions
Electronic & Mobile Commerce
Internet Technologies

Courses
Taught
Database Systems
XML Databases
Database Systems Implementation
Electronic Commerce
Information Retrieval
Introduction to Programming
Programming Languages

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)
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.

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.

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

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