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Ir. Prof. Dr. Wong Hin Yong Vice President, Academic And International Relations Vice President, Academics And International Relations Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia 63100, Cyberjaya, Selangor 03-83125430 hywong@mmu.edu.my |
Biography
Prof. Ir. Dr. Hin-Yong Wong received his B.Eng. (First Class Hons.), M.Sc.(Eng)(with Distinction) and PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University of Sussex, University of Leeds and University of Glasgow respectively, all in the United Kingdom. As a result of his outstanding academic performance, he is proud recipients to many prestigious scholastic awards such the UK Tetley &Lupton Scholarship award , the Overseas Research Students (ORS) Awards (U.K.) and University of Glasgow Postgraduate Research Scholarship awards.
Prof. Wong joined the Multimedia University (MMU), Cyberjaya, as a pioneer staff member as a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering since its inception in 1999. Since then he rose to the rank of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and now a Professor and the Dean of Institute for Postgraduate Studies. Prior to that, he was appointed the Director, Research Institute Digital Enterprise . He was also the Dean of Faculty of Engineering for almost 8 years overseeing more than 120 staff and 15 engineering undergraduates and postgraduates programmes. During his tenure as the Dean , he is proud to witness the growth of the faculty from strength to strength . Some of the notable achievements were full accreditation was granted for all the engineering programmes under his care, development of new postgraduate engineering programmes , high number of staff with professional engineers and equivalent qualification for all programmes, the establishment of Graduate Institute of Engineering, average graduate employability of the engineering graduates of above 97 %, MMU being ranked Top 200 in the World by QS Working ranking exercise for the discipline of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and many more he has witness Prof. Wong has been very active in research, he is currently supervising/co-supervising over 30 Phd and Master students where many of them have successfully graduated, completed thesis and on thesis writing up stages. As of today he has published book chapter, review chapter, encyclopedia and over 110 international research articles in renowned ISI and Scopus indexed journals and conferences based on his research findings. Thus far he has successfully secured a total research grant of over RM 6.5 millions for his research projects from various external funding sources His expertise covers wireless communication, semiconductor, nanotechnology, photonics and renewable energy. His research expertise established has resulted in invitations to provide consultancy services to many multi-national companies and wafer foundries
Prof Wong is very active in his own engineering professional bodies and societies both at the International and national levels to promote engineering. He is a registered Chartered Engineer & Professional Engineer registered with Engineering Council United Kingdom & Board of Engineers Malaysia respectively. He is a Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE-USA), Corporate member of The Institution Of Engineers Malaysia( IEM-Malaysia). Advisor and founding advisors to The Institution of Engineering and Technology(IET-UK) , the international society of SPIE (USA) and Optical Society(USA) local student chapters. He is currently serving as Advisory board member and external assessor to various Institution of higher learning in the country. He is a senior accreditation panel for the national Engineering Accreditation Council(EAC) as well as a board member of the national IEM accreditation board. Effective June 2020, he is appointed to serve as the Associate Director of Enginering Accreditation Department, Board of Engineers Malaysia .
Prof Wong’s contributions to academic and the engineering professional over the years have earned him recognitions nationally and international. Among the awards and recognitions he received are his election to the grade of Fellow of IET(United Kingdom) , Fellow, ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (AAET), Fellow of The Institution Of Engineers Malaysia( IEM)IEM , The IET Malaysia Young Engineer Award, selected as an elite member of the Young Scientist Network (YSN) of Academy Science Malaysia (ASM) , winner & honouree of the 2015 Ten Outstanding Young Malaysians(TOYM) Award by the Junior Chamber International, recipient of The National Outstanding Educator Award 2017 awarded by Private Education Co-operative Of Malaysia (EduCoop) in conjunction with the national Teachers Day Celebration.
