Prof. Martin DF Wong  Provost, Hong Kong Baptist University

Martin D. F. Wong is the Provost and Chair Professor of Computer Science at the Hong Kong Baptist University since August 2023. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from January 2019 to July 2023. Before he joined CUHK, he was with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) from 2002 to 2018. He was the Executive Associate Dean of the College of Engineering (2012-2018), and the Edward C. Jordan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before UIUC, he was a David Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Wong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UIUC in 1987. He is internationally known for his research on electronic design automation (EDA). He has published over 500 technical papers. He has supervised and graduated 65 Ph.D. students, and many of them now hold leadership positions in industry and academia. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and HKAE. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design.