Biography
Ka-Chun is born and raised in Hong Kong where he was lucky enough to be immersed in a multi-cultural environment. 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 under the co-supervision of Professor LEUNG Kwong-Sak and Professor WONG Man-Hon at the same university in 2010. Since 2011, he has been pursuing a PhD degree under the supervision of Professor ZHANG ZhaoLei in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
With exposures to different aspects (academic, industrial, spiritual ,and social), he hopes to strike a balance and contribute to the society by researches.
Research Interests
- Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
- Data Mining & Machine Learning
- Natural Computing
- Computational Science
- Quantitative & Interdisciplinary Research
Publications (*corresponding author)
[J6] Chengbin Peng, Xiaogang Jin, Ka-Chun Wong, Meixia Shi, Pietro Lio*: Collective Mobility Pattern from Taxi Trips in Urban Area. PLoS ONE (Accepted).
[J5] Ka-Chun Wong*, Chun-Ho Wu, Ricky K.P. Mok, Chengbin Peng, Zhaolei Zhang: Evolutionary multimodal optimization using the principle of locality. Information Sciences, Volume 194, 1 July 2012, Pages 138-170
[J4] Y.Leung*, M.H.Wong, K.C.Wong, W.Zhang, K.S.Leung: A Novel Web-based System for Tropical Cyclone Analysis and Prediction. International Journal of Geographical Information Science Vol. 26, Iss. 1, 2012, Pages 75-97
[J3] Tak-Ming Chan*, Ka-Chun Wong, Kin-Hong Lee, Man-Hon Wong, Chi-Kong Lau, Stephen K. W. Tsui, Kwong-Sak Leung: Discovering approximate-associated sequence patterns for protein-DNA interactions. Bioinformatics, 27, 4:471-8, 2011.
[J2] Ka-Chun Wong*, Chengbin Peng, Man-Hon Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung: Generalizing and learning protein-DNA binding sequence representations by an evolutionary algorithm. Soft Computing, 15:1631-1642, 2011.
[J1] Kwong-Sak Leung, Ka-Chun Wong*, Tak-Ming Chan, Man-Hon Wong, Kin-Hong Lee, Chi-Kong Lau, and Stephen K. W. Tsui: Discovering protein–DNA binding sequence patterns using association rule mining Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 38: 6324-6337. (among the top NAR articles in Computational Biology as of Oct 2011 - Mar 2012)
[C3] Ka-Chun Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung, Man-Hon Wong: Protein Structure Prediction on a Lattice Model via Multimodal Optimization Techniques. ACM GECCO 2010: 155-162 DOI pdf ppt Source Codes
[C2] Ka-Chun Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung, Man-Hon Wong: Effect of Spatial Locality on an Evolutionary Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization. EvoApplications (1) 2010: 481-490 DOI pdf ppt
[C1] Ka-Chun Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung, Man-Hon Wong: An evolutionary algorithm with species-specific explosion for multimodal optimization. ACM GECCO 2009: 923-930 DOI pdf ppt
