Derek F. Wong

Prof Derek F. Wong

Derek F. Wong is a Full Professor at the University of Macau, where he leads the Natural Language Processing and Chinese–Portuguese Machine Translation Laboratory (NLP2CT Lab). He is an active contributor to the research community, serving on the Board of Directors and the Machine Translation Steering Committee of the Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPS), the Natural Language Processing Committee of the China Computer Federation (CCF), and as a Member-at-Large of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP). Prof. Wong also holds key editorial roles, including Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP) and ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), and Action Editor for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) and the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). His research excellence has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Second-Class Prize in both the Science and Technology Progress (2012) and Technological Invention (2022) categories of the Macao Science and Technology Awards, the FST Research Excellence Award, and the Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff (2022), as well as the Teaching Excellence Award (2024) from the University of Macau. He has further contributed to the international NLP community as Program Co-Chair, Senior Area Co-Chair, Area Co-Chair, and Program Committee Member for top-tier conferences such as ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, and IJCNLP.