Invited Speakers 

Invited Speaker I

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• Prof. Ka-Chun Wong
  City University of Hong Kong, China
  Ka-Chun was born and raised in Hong Kong where he was lucky enough to be immersed in a multi-cultural environment. From 2011 to 2014, he has spent 3.5 years to finish his PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Before that, he received his B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008. He has also obtained his M.Phil. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the same university in 2010. His research group has published more than 100 academic papers on a wide range of high-impact venues for bioinformatics, data science, and artificial intelligence. In particular, he is an associate editor across multiple journals: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, BioData Mining, Heliyon, Frontiers in Genetics, and Computer Modelling in Engineering and Sciences. He is also on the editorial boards of multiple journals: Applied Soft Computing, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, and PeerJ Computer Science. Occasionally, he reviewed for Nature-series manuscripts. In addition, he served as a conference (co)chair for multiple international conferences and made more than ten keynote/plenary/invited speeches. In 2021 and 2023, he was elected as a governor of APNNS and served as ACM Distinguished Speaker from 2019 to 2022. Lastly, he is ranked among the Stanford's top 2% most highly cited scientists (versions 5 and 6).