Chau-Wai Wong

Chau-Wai Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, with affiliations to the Forensic Sciences Cluster and Secure Computing Institute. He previously served as a Data Scientist at Origin Wireless, Research Assistant at University of Maryland, and Research Associate at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His work bridges machine learning with applications in multimedia forensics, signal processing, and computational social science.

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland (2017)
• M.Phil., Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2010)
• B.Eng., Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2008)

Research spans federated learning (security vulnerabilities, communication efficiency), physically unclonable features (PUF-based authentication), generative models (GANs for hardware modeling), and computational social science (AI chatbots for disaster communication, TikTok behavioral analysis). Recent work explores neural tangent kernels and multi-LLM agent collaboration.

Key publications focus on decentralized AI systems (ICML'25), deepfake detection (under review), and social media health analytics (Telematics and Informatics'25). His federated learning research has appeared at ICLR, IEEE T-NNLS, and USENIX Security.

• NSF CAREER Award
• IEEE Signal Processing Cup Organizer (2016)
• Technical Program Committee Chair (IH&MMSec'25)
• Area Chair (ICME'21–'24)
• Senior Member, IEEE

Advises students in AI security, physiological sensing, and social science automation. Collaborates with teams at University of Maryland, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and industry partners. Current projects include identity-privacy protection for smart health and UAV-assisted network optimization (IEEE DySPAN'25).