WONG, Kwok-Wo
B.Sc. (EE), CUHK, Ph.D. CityU, CEng, MIEE, SMIEEE

Associate Professor,
Department of Electronic Engineering

Dr. Wong's current research interests include chaos, cryptography and neural networks. He has published over 90 papers in 20 international mathematics, physics and engineering journals, in the fields of nonlinear dynamics, cryptography, neural networks and optics. He is a member of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks, City University of Hong Kong, and the Smart Card Design Centre funded by the Innovation and Technology Commission, Government of the HKSAR.

Dr. Wong is a Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a Chartered Engineer and a Member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (formerly The Institution of Electrical Engineers, IEE). He has been serving in the committee of the Specialized Section in Computing & Control, IEE Hong Kong since 1995. He was the Hon. Secretary from 1997 to 1999, Vice-Chairman in 1999-2000, Chairman in 2000-01, Immediate Past Chairman in 2001-02, and Past Chairman in 2002-03. Currently, he serves as the Technical Activities Coordinator in the Executive Committee of IEEE Hong Kong Section.

Dr. Wong is one of the keynote speakers and workshop coordinators of the International Cryptology Workshop and Conference 2008 (Cryptology 2008).
 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. "Joint Compression and Encryption using Chaos," CERG Grant, 1/2009 - 12/2010, Principal Investigator.
2. "A Study of Fast Chaos-based Image Encryption Schemes" CityU Strategic Research Grant, 10/2007 - 3/2009, Principal Investigator.
3. "A Fast Encryption and Authentication Scheme based on Chaotic Maps" CityU Strategic Research Grant, 4/2007 - 9/2008, Principal Investigator.
4. "A Secure and Efficient Algorithm for Chaotic Cryptography" CityU Strategic Research Grant, 4/2006 - 9/2007, Principal Investigator.
5. "Fast Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Computation for Smart Card Implementation," CERG Grant, 8/2005 - 7/2007, Principal Investigator.
6. "Stability and Nonlinear Dynamical Behavior of Neural Networks with Time Delays," CityU Strategic Research Grant, 12/2003 - 11/2005, Principal Investigator.
7. "Regularization in Recursive Least Square Training and Pruning," CityU Strategic Research Grant, 4/2001 - 3/2003, Principal Investigator.
8. "Theoretical Analysis and Applications of Phase Synchronization in Coupled Chaotic Systems,” CityU Strategic Research Grant, 9/2000 - 2/2002, Principal Investigator.
9. "Applications of Artificial Neural Networks in the Transmission of Vector Quantized Data over A Noisy Channel", CERG Grant, 12/98 - 11/00, Principal Investigator.
10. "Multichannel Secure Communications using Chaotic Neural Networks", CityU Strategic Grant, 8/98 - 2/00, Principal Investigator.
11. "Adaptive Training and Pruning Algorithms for Artificial Neural Networks", CERG Grant, 12/97 - 11/99, Principal Investigator.
12. "Recirculating Implementation of Optical Omega Network", CERG Grant, 12/96 - 11/98, Principal Investigator.
13. "A Hybrid Implementation of Artificial Neural Networks", CityU Strategic Grant, 11/95 - 10/97, Principal Investigator.
14. "Realization of a Self-routing Optical Interconnection Network", CityU Strategic Grant, 11/94 - 4/97, Principal Investigator.
15. "Performance Analysis of Optical Interconnection Networks", CityU Small Scale Grant, 5/94 - 1/95, Principal Investigator.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. Kwok-Wo Wong and Ching-Hung Yuen, “Embedding Compression in Chaos-based Cryptography” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II.
2. Qing Zhou, Kwok-wo Wong, Xiaofeng Liao, Yue Hu, “Parallel Image Encryption Algorithm based on Discretized Chaotic Map” Chaos, Soliton & Fractals, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 1081-1092, November 2008.
3. Kwok-Wo Wong, Bernie Sin-Hung Kwok, and Wing-Shing Law, “A Fast Image Encryption Scheme based on Chaotic Standard Map,” Physics Letters A, vol. 372, no. 15, pp. 2645-2652, April 2008.
4. K.W. Wong, Edward C.W. Lee, L.M. Cheng, and Xiaofeng Liao, "Fast Elliptic Scalar Multiplication using New Double-base Chain and Point Halving," Applied Mathematics and Computation vol. 183, no. 2, pp. 1000-1007, 15 December 2006, also be found in IACR ePrint Archive 2006/124.
5. Yong Xu, Kwok-Wo Wong, and Chi-Sing Leung, "Generalized RLS Approach to the Training of Neural Networks," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 19-34, Jan 2006.
6. Kwok-wo Wong, Kwan-Pok Man, Shujun Li, and Xiaofeng Liao, "A More Secure Chaotic Cryptographic Scheme based on Dynamic Look-up Table," Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 571-584, October 2005.
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TEACHING

1. EE4212 --- Information and Coding
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2. EE4210--- Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems
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3. EE3206 / EE5805 --- Java Programming and Applications
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