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Dr. Christopher Yee WONG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He leads the Living with Assistive and Interactive Robots (LAIR) Lab, focusing on human-robot interaction (HRI), robot kinematics, and multimodal sensing. His research aims to develop safe and intuitive robotic systems for healthcare, retail, and manufacturing environments. He holds a Ph.D. (2017) from the University of Toronto and M.Eng. (2014) and B.Eng. (2011) from McGill University.
His education includes advanced robotics training, with a Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Toronto and a B.Eng./M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University. His work spans physical and social HRI, including robot-to-human grasping, sensor observability analysis, and virtual reality applications. He also focuses on ethics in robotics education and has contributed to K-12 roboethics modules.
Dr. Wong’s research projects include robots in retail spaces for visually impaired users, VR environments for HRI studies, and foundational work on sensor observability metrics for robotic mechanisms. His recent publications emphasize practical applications in assistive robotics and ethical considerations in technology deployment.
As an educator, he employs evidence-based teaching methods, emphasizing student engagement and problem-solving. He has taught courses at Concordia and McGill, including Dynamics, Automated Manufacturing, and Control Systems, with consistently high student ratings. His teaching philosophy prioritizes guiding students to reconstruct knowledge through active learning.
