Dr. Kevin Wong is currently working as an Associate Professor with the School of Information Technology at Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM and ACS. He is the chair for the IEEE Western Australia Section, and the Governing Board Member for Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APPNA). He is also serving as a member for the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC) and Games Technical Committee (GTC) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS).  He is involved in the editorial board for a number of international journals. He has published three conference proceedings and more than 130 book chapters, journal and conference papers. His current research interests include Interactive Digital Media and Simulation, Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks and Bio-inspired Computing, and Intelligent Information Processing and Data Mining Applications.

Teaching Experiences:

ICT101 Introduction to 3-D Graphics and Animation

ICT104 Principles of Computer Science

ICT219 Intelligent Systems

ICT241 Game Software Design

ICT245 Game Software Production

ICT 309 Games Development

Project supervisor for ICT313 Games Technology Project and ICT333 Information Technology Project

Professional Memberships:

Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Senior Member of IEEE Computer Society

Senior Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Member of Australian Computer Society (ACS)

Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Professional Services:

Chair for IEEE Western Australia Section

Governing Board Member for Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APPNA)

Secretary for IEEE Computer Chapter (Western Australia)

Member of the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)

Member of the Games Technical Committee (GTC) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)

Member of the Journal Ranking Sub-committee of The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE)

Founder and Coordinator of Intelligent and Interactive Media Lab (iiM Lab)

Coordinator of Game and Simulation Research Group at the School of IT in Murdoch University

Coordinator of Intelligent Systems Research Group at the School of IT in Murdoch University

Web Master for Games, Simulation and Intelligent Systems @ Murdoch University

Journal Editorials:

ACM Computer in Entertainment Magazine - Co-editor and Advisor

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games - Associate Editor

International Journal of Computer Games Technology - Associate Editor

International Journal of Social Robotics - Associate Editor

International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies

International Journal of Computer Sciences and System Analysis

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics - Associate Editor

Journal of Information Technology Research

Memetic Computing

Transactions of Edutainment

Editors for Conference Proceedings:

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2007)

Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Game Research and Development (CyberGames 2006) 

Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE 2006)

 Special Issues Editor for Journals:

1. Abdennour El Rhalibi, Kok Wai Wong, and Marc Price, “Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games” International Journal of Computer Games Technology (2009)

2. Kok Wai Wong and Adrian D. Cheok, “Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts” in International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART) (2008)

3. Kevin Kok Wai Wong, Chun Che Fung, and Arnold Depickere, "Cyber Games and Interactive Entertainment" in International Journal of Computer Games Technology (2008)

4. Kok Wai Wong, Tom Gedeon, Lance Fung, "Advances in Intelligent Data Processing" in Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 11 (April-June 2007)

5. Kok Wai Wong and Kaoru Hirota, "Intelligent Technologies," in the Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2004.

Conference Organizations:

• Tutorial Chair for ICONIP 2009 : 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing

• International Advisory Panel for Computer Games & Allied Technology 09

• Programme Co-chair for The Sixth Annual International Conference in Computer Game Design and Technology 2008 (GDTW 2008)

• Program Committee Chair for The Fourth International Conference on Games Research and Development 2008 (CyberGames 2008)

• Technical Program Chair for DIMEA 2008: Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

• International Advisory Panel for Computer Games & Allied Technology 08

• Publicity Chair for 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games

• Workshop Co-chair for 1st IEEE International Workshop on Digital Entertainment, Networked Virtual Environments, and Creative Technology 2008

• Programme Co-chair for The Fifth Annual International Conference in Computer Game Design and Technology 2007 (GDTW 2007)

• General Conference Chair for DIMEA 2007: Second International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

• Technical Program Chair for Third International Conference on Games Research and Development 2007 (CyberGames 2007)

• General Conference Chair for Joint International Conference on CyberGames and Interactive Entertainment 2006

• Publicity Chair for The Fourth Annual International Conference in Computer Game Design and Technology (GDTW 2006)

Technical Program Committee of International Conferences (2008&2009):

• Edutainment 2009

• International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC) 2009

• Edutainment 2008

• 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics

• The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment 2008

• 2008 International Workshop on Intelligent Web Interaction (IWI'08)

• The International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling (KAM 2008)

• Joint 4th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and the 9th International Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2008)

• 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008) - FUZZ IEEE 2008

Special Sessions in Conferences:

• Kevin Wong, Hock Soon Seah, and Abdennour El Rhalibi, "Digital Entertainment, Networked Virtual Environment and Creative Technology" in 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference IEEE CCNC 2009.

• Kok Wai Wong, "Advances in Information Processing," in Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2006)

• Kok Wai Wong and Chun Che Fung, "Advances in Intelligent Data Processing," in the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2005.

• Yew Soon Ong and Kok Wai Wong, "Advances in Intelligent Data Processing," in the IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) 2004.

• Kok Wai Wong, "Intelligent Data Mining," in the Eighth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Visions (ICARCV) 2004.

Invited talks or workshops:

• Invited talk on “Player Adaptive Entertainment Computing” in Computer Games & Allied Technology 2008, Singapore, April 2008

• Invited talk on “Intelligent Well Log Analysis for Enhanced Production Forecasting” in Production Forecasting in Upstream Oil and Gas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2006

• Invited pre-conference workshop on “Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Strategies into Your Well Log Analysis” in Production Forecasting in Upstream Oil and Gas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2006

• Invited talk in the Joint 2nd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 5th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, September 2004

Research Interests:

• Interactive Digital Media and Simulation

  • Player Adaptive Entertainment Computing

  • Complex Systems Modeling for Highly Interactive Media

  • Interactive Media for Education and Simulation

  • Game AI

  • Augmented reality and pervasive media

• Fuzzy Systems

  • Fuzzy Rule Interpolation - (FRI Matlab Toolbox - Free to use)

  • Hierarchical Fuzzy Signature

  • Fuzzy Cognitive Modeling

   

• Neural Networks and Bio-inspired Computing

• Intelligent Information Processing & Data Mining Applications

Current Researchers:

• Kowit Rapeepisarn (PhD) - Research title: A Framework for Adopting Educational Computer Games in the Undergraduate Course in Thailand for Learning and Teaching
• Todsanai Chumwatana (PhD) - Research Title: Thai Web Mining
• Elinda Lee (PhD) - Research Title: An Effective Framework of Using Virtual Reality in Learning
• Worapat Paireekreng (PhD) - Research Title: A Framework for Personalised Mobile Content Delivery Using Collaborative Filtered Profile and Intelligent Systems Approach
• Piyasak Jeatrakul (PhD) - Research Title: Enhancing Classification Accuracy Using Intelligent Misclassification Analysis

Alumni:

• Pawalai Kraipeerapun - Graduated 2009 - Thesis title: Neural Network Classification Based on Quantification of Uncertainty [co-supervised]
• Ong Sing Goh (PhD) - Graduated 2008 - Thesis title: A Framework and Evaluation of Conversation Agents [co-supervised]
• Viknashvaran Narayanasamy (MPhil) - Graduated 2006 - Thesis title: Game Resources Modelling and Game Architecture for Complex Systems Based Emergent Massively Multiplayer Game Engines 
• Tim Hocking (First Class Honours) - Graduated 2008 - Research Title: An Improved Location-based Personalisation System
• Bin Hua (First Class Honours) - Graduated 2007 - Thesis title: Fuzzy Logic Based Product Filtering for Web Personalization Used in E-Commerce

Selected Publications: (full list of publications will be available on request)

(Kok Wai Wong is used as the author name for all publications)

• Chiou, A. and Wong, K.W. (2008) "Player Adaptive Entertainment Computing (PAEC): Mechanism to Model User Satisfaction by Using Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Techniques," in Proceedings of 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, Perth, Australia, Dec 2008, pp. 343 -349. (Paper)

• Lim, E. and Wong, K.W. (2008) "A Review of Using Virtual Reality for Learning", Transactions on Edutainment I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 3-540-69737-3, pp. 231-241. (Paper)

• Wong, K.W. (2008) “Adaptive Computer Game System Using Artificial Neural Networks,” in Ishikawa, M., Doya, K., Miyamoto, H., Yamakawa, T. (Eds.) Neural Information Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN: 978-3-540-69154-9, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 675-682.(Paper)

• Ong, Y. S., Lim, M. H., Zhu, N., Wong, K. W. (2006) "Classification of Adaptive Memetic Algorithms: A Comparative Study," IEEE Transactions of Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics, vol. 36, no.1, February 2006, pp.141-152 (Paper)

• Johanyak, Z.C., Tikk, D., Kovacs, S., Wong, K.W. (2006) “Fuzzy Rule Interpolation Matlab Toolbox - FRI Toolbox,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2006, July 2006, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 1427 - 1433. (Paper)

• Wong, K.W., Tikk, D., Gedeon, T.D., Koczy, L.T. (2005) "Fuzzy Rule Interpolation for Multidimensional Input Spaces with Applications," IEEE Transactions of Fuzzy Systems, vol. 13, no. 6, December 2005, pp 809-819. (Paper)

• Wong, K.W., Gedeon, T.D., Koczy, L.T. (2004) "Construction of Fuzzy Signature from Data: An Example of SARs Pre-clinical Diagnosis System," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems – FUZZ-IEEE 2004, July 2004, Budapest, Hungary, paper 1353. (Paper)

• Ong, Y.S., Nair, P.B., Keane, A.J. and Wong, K.W. (2004) “Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Optimization Frameworks for High-Fidelity Engineering Design Problems”, in Jin Y. (Ed) Knowledge Incorporation in Evolutionary Computation, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Series, Springer-Verlag, pp. 307- 331. (Paper)

• Wong, K.W., Wong, P.M., Gedeon, T.D., Fung, C.C. (2003) "Rainfall Prediction Model Using Soft Computing Technique," Soft Computing, vol 7, issue 6, pp. 434-438. (Paper)

• Fung, C.C., Wong, K.W., Eren, H., Charlebois, R., and Crocker, H. (1996) "Modular Artificial Neural Network for Prediction of Petrophysical Properties from Well Log Data," in Proceedings of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, June, Brussels, pp. 1010 - 1014. (Paper)

Links:

FRI Matlab Toolbox

Intelligent and Interactive Media Lab (iiM Lab)

CGIE 2006

DIMEA 2007

AUMIIP 2009

Murdoch University

School of Information Technology, Murdoch University

Games, Simulation and Intelligent Systems @ Murdoch University