• School of Humanities & Social Science

    • Dr WONG Wai Kit （王偉傑博士）
    BSc (HKU)
    MPhil (HKU)
    PhD (HKU)

    Adjunct Associate Professor
    Department of Computer Science

    Email :
    wongwk@hsu.edu.hk


    Dr. WONG Wai Kit holds a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong. He has extensive experience in academic research and industry. He joined HSUHK as lecturer/assistant professor in 2012. He obtained 3 UGC RDS grants and was awarded EAI Senior Members Class of 2020. Dr. Wong joined the industry in 2021. He was the Head of Research at Ribose Limited before, working on various open-source projects. He was later on the Head of Data Research in JKL Group, developing AI tools/products for supporting cryptocurrency trading. Now, he is working in two start-up companies (Bigmath - Shenzhen (https://www.bigmath.com/) and VX Real - Hong Kong (https://www.vxreal.com/)) developing AI-centric products.

    Research InterestsCompetitive GrantsPublicationsAwards
    TopResearch Interests
    Database, AI, Web3, and Cybersecurity
    TopCompetitive Grants
    • Semantic search on Geolexica. NGI Zero (NLnet Foundation, European Commission) (2022). EUR €100K.
    • Google Season of Doc 2021.
    • Optimizing Analytics Processing in Encrypted Database Systems. UGC/FDS14/E03/17. Jan 2018- Dec 2020. HK $557,850.
    • Secure Cloud Database System using Communication-Efficient Multi-Party Computation. UGC/FDS14/E03/16. Jan 2017- Dec 2019. HK $712,209.
    • Improving selection query processing speed of secure cloud database systems by tuple pruning on desensitized data. UGC/FDS14/E05/14. Jan 2015- Jun 2017. HK $1,053,400.
    TopPublications
    • Wong, W. K., Ye, S., Liu, H., & Wang, Y. (2020). Effective mobile target searching using robots. Mobile Networks and Applications, 27(1), 249–265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-020-01628-
    • Wong, W. K., Wong, K., & Yue, H. (2018). Optimizing Selection Processing for Encrypted Database using Past Result Knowledge Base. Extending Database Technology. https://doi.org/10.5441/002/edbt.2018.10
    • He, Z., Wong, W. K., Kao, B., Cheung, D. W. L., Li, R., Yiu, S. M., & Lo, E. (2015). SDB: a secure query processing system with data interoperability. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 8(12), 1876–1879. https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824090
    • Wong, W. K., Kao, B., Cheung, D. W. L., Li, R., & Yiu, S. M. (2014). Secure query processing with data interoperability in a cloud database environment. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 1395–1406. https://doi.org/10.1145/2588555.2588572
    • Zhang, Y., Wong, W.-K., Yiu, S. M., Mamoulis, N., & Cheung, D. W. (2013). Lightweight privacy-preserving peer-to-peer data integration. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 6(3), 157–168. https://doi.org/10.14778/2535569.2448950
    • Wong, W. K., Mamoulis, N., & Cheung, D. W. L. (2010). Non-homogeneous generalization in privacy preserving data publishing. Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 747–758. https://doi.org/10.1145/1807167.1807248
    • Wong, W. K., Cheung, D. W., Hung, E., Kao, B., & Mamoulis, N. (2009). An audit environment for outsourcing of frequent itemset mining. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2(1), 1162–1173. https://doi.org/10.14778/1687627.1687758
    • Wong, W. K., Cheung, D. W., Kao, B., & Mamoulis, N. (2009). Secure kNN computation on encrypted databases. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 139–152. https://doi.org/10.1145/1559845.1559862
    • Wong, W., Cheung, D. W.-L., Edward, E., Kao, B., & Mamoulis, N. (2007). Security in Outsourcing of Association Rule Mining, VLDB, 111–122. https://doi.org/10.5353/th_b3955890
    TopAwards
    • Winner of Hedgeweek US Digital Assets Awards 2023 in ‘Best Crypto Market Neutral Performance: Veteran’ category
    • EAI Senior Members Class of 2020 (Awarded to top 1% computer scientists worldwide according to their EAI Index value in 2019)
    • Chan Kai Ming Prize in Engineering (Awarded to the final year student with the best examination result)
    • Hong Kong Olympiad in Informatics (HKOI) Bronze Award (Senior Group)