Chun Wong
Data Scientist
- Location
- Greater New York City Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Chun Wong's Overview
- Past
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- Senior Design Team Member at Binghamton University
- Student at Binghamton University
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at Binghamton University
- Contract Worker at KCL Construction
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at Binghamton University
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at Binghamton University
- Summer Intern at NYPD
- Contract Software Developer at MuddyHudson LLC
- Undergraduate Research Assistant at Binghamton University
- Contract Software Developer at MuddyHudson LLC
- Web Design Intern at Xanga.com
- Education
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- State University of New York at Binghamton
- Brooklyn Technical High School
- New York Chinese School
- Connections
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113 connections
- Websites
Chun Wong's Summary
My interests are primarily in the study of emergent patterns and behaviors of large complex systems. This interest is mainly focused on the unique interactions and resulting behavior of interacting components, such as human systems like local, national and transnational groups, sovereign nations, military alliances, etc and creating novel analytics to use as metrics for these interactions. The time-dependent topological change of these systems is of particular interest as is using advanced tools such as late breaking techniques and algorithms to categorize and model these changes and behaviors. A particular interest is using biomimetics to derive nature’s techniques to solve and model technical problems. These include using evolutionary algorithms and spiking neural networks to solve engineering problems. My goal is to secure a career position, beginning after 20 May 2012, with responsibilities and duties which correlate to the aforementioned interests.
Specialties
modeling complex systems
Chun Wong's Experience
Senior Design Team Member
Binghamton University
Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry
August 2011 – May 2012 (10 months) Vestal, New York
Senior design project member designing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) with a published technique, hybrid stochastic/mathematical optimization algorithm in combination with the Kernalized Partial Least Square (KPLS) Method for data feature selection and parameter training. This project includes three other seniors of the Bioengineering Department and is a year-long project culminating in a service product to assist oncologists and clinicians in making decisions about lung cancer patient prognosis.
Student
Binghamton University
Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry
August 2008 – May 2012 (3 years 10 months) Vestal, New York
Bioengineering student at Binghamton University. Studying complex systems, self-organizing systems, entrepreneurship, bioinspiration, diffusion dynamical modeling, bioelectricity, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Binghamton University
Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry
August 2011 – March 2012 (8 months) Vestal, New York
Undergraduate researcher/contract engineer for Defense Research and Development Canada (DRDC), Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA) via the Binghamton University Bioengineering Department. Research include building a viable and useful network-evolution based model of the Arctic Search and Rescue network, including all available resources and agents, deployment protocols and patterns. Primary work is done in Binghamton, New York.
Contract Worker
KCL Construction
August 2011 – August 2011 (1 month) Brooklyn, New York
Short-term construction contractor (1 week), helping family company to expedite work to keep project deadline. Duties include interior wall painting, installing insulation, pouring cement and laying ceramic tiles.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Binghamton University
Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry
March 2011 – July 2011 (5 months) Vestal, New York
Undergraduate research assistant exploring the cutting edge field of Swarm Chemistry—simulated robots with limited range of perception interacting to produce emergent behavior and large “organisms” comprised of many individual robots.
See resulting conference presentation:
• Hiroki Sayama and Chun Wong, Quantifying evolutionary dynamics of Swarm Chemistry, in Tom Lenaerts, Mario Giacobini, Hugues Bersini, Paul Bourgine, Marco Dorigo and René Doursat, eds., Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, 2011, MIT Press, pp.729-730.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Binghamton University
Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry
February 2011 – July 2011 (6 months) Vestal, New York
Research member in a five-member team from bioengineering, marketing, computer science, and GIS departments. Studying market diffusion of a product (broadband internet service) using geographic distance measures. Attempting to improve current models of market diffusion previously defined in Bass’s paper and subsequent improvements by others. Using evolutionary algorithms to fit data to proposed equations.
See resulting conference presentation:
• Chun Wong, Hiroki Sayama, Manoj Agarwal, Kenneth Chiu, and Kevin Heard, Modeling geographical diffusion of broadband Internet use from household survey data, in Hiroki Sayama, Ali A. Minai, Dan Braha, and Yaneer Bar-Yam, eds., Unifying Themes in Complex Systems Volume VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011), New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity, NECSI Knowledge Press, 2011, pp.1642-1643.
Summer Intern
NYPD
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Law Enforcement industry
July 2010 – August 2010 (2 months)
Summer intern at the 62nd Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Duties include operating computer systems, filing police documents, and learning about the operation of a NYPD police station.
Contract Software Developer
MuddyHudson LLC
June 2009 – September 2009 (4 months) New York, New York
Contract software developer for MuddyHudson, Inc. – Developed plug-in and component interface for a mobile bracelet device on the Joomla! content management system. Allows one way communication and activation from multiple access points on a Joomla! installation to a bracelet “buzzer”, connected by mobile networks.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Binghamton University
Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry
January 2009 – August 2009 (8 months) Vestal, New York
Undergraduate research assistant for the Department of Computer Science at Binghamton University. Worked on semantic data analysis and information extraction.
Contract Software Developer
MuddyHudson LLC
May 2008 – September 2008 (5 months) New York, New York
Contract software developer for MuddyHudson, Inc. – Developed Joomla! User Exchanger, allows exchange of users and profiles amongst a mesh of independent Joomla! installations. User exchanger is a self-correcting, self-updating system, requiring no central storage system for synchronization.
Web Design Intern
Xanga.com
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
March 2007 – March 2008 (1 year 1 month) New York, New York
Web design intern at popular social blogging site, Xanga.com. Helped to convert and design launch themes for Xanga Themes feature. Helped with conversion of blog entry data to Unicode.
Chun Wong's Skills & Expertise
Chun Wong's Education
State University of New York at Binghamton
B.S., Bioengineering
2008 – 2012 (expected)
In the Bioengineering Major at Binghamton University we focused on learning about complex systems. These systems consist of many heterogeneous, interacting components that work together to exhibit emergent behavior.
What is this? What is intelligence to a bunch of interacting neurons? What is the cardiac cycle to a bunch of interacting cardiac cells? What is society to a bunch of interacting individuals? What is a school of fish to a bunch of interacting fish? What is the ecosystem to a bunch of interacting species? What is world government to a bunch of interacting sovereign national governments? What is 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts'?
We learn to model, examine, test and perturb these systems to discover novel behavior. We attempt to minimally interact with these systems to affect huge change.
Activities and Societies: Complex systems engineering, undergraduate research with the Bioengineering Department, participated in US Army ROTC for 2 semesters
Brooklyn Technical High School
New York State Advanced Regents Diploma, Computer Science
2004 – 2008
Activities and Societies: Computer Science Concentration, Graduated on Honor Roll with 3.8 GPA, Bronze Medal of Computer Science, 1st Place 4th Annual St. Joseph's College Programming Competition, President at BTHS Software Development Group, BTHSnews.org
New York Chinese School
Chun Wong's Additional Information
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- Interests:
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complex adaptive systems, complex networks, network dynamics, emergent behavior, complex human/social behavior, political science, complex political behavior, transnational organizations, complex transnational interactions
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Academic Works
• Hiroki Sayama and Chun Wong, Quantifying evolutionary dynamics of Swarm Chemistry, in Tom Lenaerts, Mario Giacobini, Hugues Bersini, Paul Bourgine, Marco Dorigo and René Doursat, eds., Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, 2011, MIT Press, pp.729-730.
• Chun Wong, Hiroki Sayama, Manoj Agarwal, Kenneth Chiu, and Kevin Heard, Modeling geographical diffusion of broadband Internet use from household survey data, in Hiroki Sayama, Ali A. Minai, Dan Braha, and Yaneer Bar-Yam, eds., Unifying Themes in Complex Systems Volume VIII: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011), New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity, NECSI Knowledge Press, 2011, pp.1642-1643.
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