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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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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), where she also serves as the Deputy Director, Center for Learning Excellence and Academic Intelligence (LEARN). Prior to this, she served as the Deputy Dean for Research & Innovation, FCI from 2018 to 2021, and the Chair of the Centre for Visual Computing from 2021 to 2024.
Her research interests include computer vision, computational aesthetics, computational photography, affective computing and medical imaging. She has published in several reputable conferences such as ACM Multimedia, CVPRW, ECCV, WACV and ICIP, and journals such as ACM Computing Survey, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM). 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 exhibitions/competitions such as ITEX, PECIPTA, and PERINTIS from 2016 to 2019. For her dedication in teaching, she was also awarded the Excellent Teaching Award by Multimedia University in 2014.
Dr. Wong serves as the General Co-Chair for ACM Multimedia Asia 2025, and as the Organizing Committee for several international conferences including IEEE ICIP 2027, IEEE MIPR 2026, ACM Multimedia Asia 2026, IEEE ICIP 2023, ACM Multimedia Asia 2023, IEEE ICME 2022, IEEE ISPACS 2022, IEEE MMSP 2018, IWAIT 2017 and PCM 2015. She also serves as Co-Chair for several international workshops held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2020, ACCV 2018, and ACPR 2015. She regularly serves as the Technical Program Committee/Reviewer of reputable conferences (eg. CVPR, ICCV, WACV, AAAI, ACM Multimedia) and top-tiered journals, including several IEEE Transactions (TMM, TIP, TCVST, TNNLS), and ACM Transactions (TOMM). She currently serves as the Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) and Guest Editor of Special Issue for Displays. She is also the Technical Committee for APSIPA SPS TC since 2018.
