PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Kam-Fai Wong

Kam Fai Wong studies language processing and Chinese computing, including shared research on conversations and dialogue systems. Wong earned an Edinburgh doctorate in 1987 and later did postdoctoral research at Heriot-Watt, UniSys and ECRC. His research interests include Chinese computing, databases and information retrieval. Dingmin Wang, Chenghua Lin, Qi Liu and Wong published shared work at NAACL on dialogue state tracking through explicit modular decomposition.

Works
487
Citations
10,344
h-index
39

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 1987

    Training and research settings

    Wong earned an Edinburgh doctorate in 1987 and later did postdoctoral research at Heriot-Watt, UniSys and ECRC. His research interests include Chinese computing, databases and information retrieval.

  2. 2015–2017

    Community leadership and a shared book

    He served as AFNLP president in 2015–2016 and as Chinese Language Computer Society governing board president in 2015–2017. In 2017 he coauthored a book on social media analysis with Wenjie Li, Ruifeng Xu and W. Gao.

  3. 2020

    Learning from online conversations

    Shared 2020 papers studied conversation recommendation and learning dialogue policies from demonstrations. The former lists Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, Zhiming Mao and Wong; the latter lists Huimin Wang, Baolin Peng and Wong. These are specific research contributions in his language program.

  4. 2021

    Tracking dialogue state

    Dingmin Wang, Chenghua Lin, Qi Liu and Wong published shared work at NAACL on dialogue state tracking through explicit modular decomposition.

Sources and credits

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  1. Kam-Fai Wong — direct faculty biography and publication record se.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 13 October 2026.