Directory of Expertise
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wong Lai Kuan Deputy Director, Centre for Learning Excellence and Academic Intelligence (LEARN) / Associate Professor FACULTY OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS (FCI) FCI-BR-1018 , Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia 63100, Cyberjaya, Selangor +603-83125248 lkwong@mmu.edu.my 
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Biography
Dr. Wong received her B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computing from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics (FCI), Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia. She served as the Deputy Dean of Research & Innovation of FCI from September 2018 to February 2021.
Her research interests include computer vision, computational photography, computational aesthetics, and medical imaging. She is the Chair of the Center for Visual Computing and she also leads the Visual Processing Lab. She has published in several reputable conferences such as ACM Multimedia, ICIP, WACV and CGI and journals such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM). She was a recipient of the NUS research scholarship from 2002-2003 and 2007-2011. Her research work was also recognized with the winnings of several Gold awards in the international exhibitions / competitions such as ITEX, PECIPTA and PERINTIS from 2016 to 2019. For her dedication to teaching, she was also awarded the Excellent Teaching Award by Multimedia University in 2014.
Dr Wong also serves as Co-Chair for several international workshops held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2020 (ATQAM), ACCV 2018 (AIAesthetics), and ACPR 2015 (LSMBD), and as the Organizing Committee for several international conferences including IEEE ICIP 2023, ICME 2022, IEEE ISPACS 2022, IEEE MMSP 2018, IWAIT 2017 and PCM 2015. She regularly serves as a Technical Program Committee member of reputable conferences (eg. CVPR, AAAI, ACM Multimedia, ICME, MMM, IEEE VR) and as a reviewer for several IEEE Transactions, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Visual Computer, Multimedia Tools and Applications, and EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing. She is also the Technical Committee for APSIPA SPS TC since 2018.
