Kainam Thomas Wong

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Space-time signal processing in “blind” CDMA receivers for wireless communications --- both direct-sequence (DS-CDMA) and frequency-hop (FH-CDMA)
• Smart Antennas for Offset-Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) or Ultrawide band (UWB)
• Medium-access control (MAC) QoS for multiple-hop ad hoc networks
• Statistical modeling of space-time-polarization fading channels --- in satellite-mobile, land-mobile, or indoor wireless communications
• Space-time-polarization diversity in wireless communications and radar
• Diversely polarized antenna-array direction-finding and beamforming, sparse (thin) sensor-array direction finding
• Underwater-acoustic hydrophone-array signal processing
• Digital image processing: edge enhancement, biomedical image restoration

EDUCATION & HONORS:

• Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1996, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1990, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

• B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1987, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

• B.S. in Engineering (Chemical Engineering), 1985, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Dr. Wong is a senior member of the IEEE, as well as a member of the Eta Kappa Nu (USA) and the Phi Beta Delta (USA) honor societies.

He is listed in Marquis’ 2002 and/or later editions of Who’s Who in Science & Engineering, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in America.

The Canadian province of Ontario conferred on him the “Premier Research Excellence Award” (PREA) in 2003.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ACTIVITIES:

Dr. Wong was a Manufacturing Engineer at the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Michigan, USA) from 1990 to 1991. He was a Senior Professional Staff Member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Laurel, Maryland, USA) from 1996 to 1998, when he developed next-generation radar and satellite communications technology. He was an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) during 1998, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001, and at the University of Waterloo since September 2001.

He was a Co-Chair of the 2004-Fall IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference’s (VTC’04 Fall) track (analogous to a symposium) on Digital Signal Processing.

Dr. Wong serves on the Editorial Board of Electronics & Electrical Engineering. He was a Technical Editor for the #28:2C issue (December 2003) of the Arabian Journal for Science & Engineering, with a special theme on “Wireless Systems and Networks”.

He also regularly peer-reviews for various IEEE/IEE journals, IEEE conferences, and grant agencies.