Prof. Simon James Fong
Biography: Simon
Fong graduated from La Trobe University, Australia, with a 1st Class Honours
BEng. Computer Systems degree and a PhD. Computer Science degree in 1993 and
1998 respectively. Simon is now working as an Associate Professor at the
Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Macau. He is a
co-founder of the Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Research Group in
the Faculty of Science and Technology.
Prior to his academic career, Simon took up various managerial and
technical posts, such as systems engineer, IT consultant and e-commerce
director in Australia and Asia. Dr. Fong has published over 500 international
conference and peer-reviewed journal papers, mostly in the areas of data
mining, data stream mining, big data analytics, meta-heuristics optimization
algorithms, and their applications. He serves on the editorial boards of the
IEEE IT Professional Magazine, and various special issues of IEEE journals.
Simon is also an active researcher with leading positions such as Vice-chair of
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Task Force on Business
Intelligence & Knowledge Management, and Vice-director of International
Consortium for Optimization and Modelling in Science and Industry (iCOMSI).