PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Man Hon Wong

Man Hon Wong is a computer scientist at The Chinese University of Hong Kong whose work on databases and distributed systems sits beside research interests in expert systems and applications of fuzzy logic. He earned a B.Sc. in 1987 and an M.Phil. in 1989 at CUHK and a Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1993, then joined CUHK as an assistant professor and became an associate professor in 1998. His papers include a 1992 PODS paper on bounded inconsistency and concurrency, a 1995 article on context-specific synchronization written with Divyakant Agrawal, a 1999 PODS paper on time-series searching with Kelvin Kam Wing Chu, and a 2000 paper on diamond quorum consensus for replicated databases. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK, where his research areas include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and databases, data mining and knowledge management.

Timeline

  1. 1987–1993

    Degrees at CUHK and UCSB

    He receives a B.Sc. in 1987 and an M.Phil. in 1989 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He then goes to the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he earns his Ph.D. in 1993.

  2. 1992

    Bounded inconsistency at PODS

    While at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he publishes "Tolerating Bounded Inconsistency for Increasing Concurrency in Database Systems" at PODS in 1992.

  3. 1993–1998

    Joining the CUHK faculty

    He joins The Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor in August 1993. The university promotes him to associate professor in 1998.

  4. 1995

    Context-specific synchronization

    In 1995, he and Divyakant Agrawal publish "Context-specific synchronization for atomic data types in object-based databases" in volume 149 of Theoretical Computer Science. The article comes from the Department of Computer Science at CUHK.

  5. 1999

    Fast time-series searching

    With Kelvin Kam Wing Chu, he publishes "Fast Time-Series Searching with Scaling and Shifting" at PODS in 1999. The paper gives a geometric formulation for finding the optimal scale and offset between sequences and uses it in a tree-based index for similarity search, tested on stock-price traces.

  6. October 2000

    Diamond quorum consensus

    In October 2000, he, Ada Wai-Chee Fu and Yat Sheung Wong publish "Diamond Quorum Consensus for High Capacity and Efficiency in a Replicated Database System" in Distributed and Parallel Databases.

  7. As of October 2026

    Adjunct associate professor at CUHK

    He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK, which he joined in 1993. His research areas there include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and databases, data mining and knowledge management, and his research interests include transaction management, mobile databases, data replication, distributed systems, expert systems and applications of fuzzy logic.

Career

  1. Since 1993Chinese University of Hong KongAssistant Professor, Associate Professor

Education

  1. 1993University of California, Santa BarbaraPh.D.
  2. 1989Chinese University of Hong KongM.Phil.
  3. 1987Chinese University of Hong KongB.Sc.

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes Chinese University of Hong Kong. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  3. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes Chinese University of Hong Kong. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Chinese University of Hong Kong. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Man Hon Wong – CUHK CSE cse.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Man Hon Wong | Author – DBScholar rmarcus.info. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Entry Wong:1995:CSS from tcs1995.bib ftp.math.utah.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Fast Time-Series Searching with Scaling and Shifting | Paper – DBScholar rmarcus.info. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 8 vldb.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Faculty – CUHK CSE cse.cuhk.edu.hk. Checked 21 October 2026.