Forensic Sciences Chau-Wai Wong
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chau-Wai Wong joined NC State in January 2018 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Forensic Sciences. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Wong’s research focuses on extraction, process, analysis, and utilization of digital or digitized signals for forensic applications. His research exploits problems’ domain knowledge and synergistically applies theories in signal processing, computer vision, applied statistics, machine learning, and optimization.
Wong obtained his bachelor’s degree and a master of philosophy degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. His Ph.D. focused on micro signal extraction and analytics under the mentorship of Min Wu. Wong joined NC State after briefly working at a wireless analytics startup as a data scientist. His work has been published in multimedia forensics, signal processing, and social sciences journals. He has taught graduate level courses and mentored graduate and undergraduate students.