Derek F. Wong
Scholar

Derek F. Wong

Google Scholar ID: KjQBe8oAAAAJ
Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
Machine TranslationNeural Machine TranslationNatural Language ProcessingMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
4,689
 
H-index
33
 
i10-index
85
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
10
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Second Prize in the Technological Invention Award, Macao Science and Technology Award in 2022
  • Second-Class Prize in the Science and Technology Progress Award, Macao Science and Technology Award in 2012
  • Multiple papers accepted to EMNLP 2025, ACL 2025, and other conferences
  • PC Co-chair of IJCNLP-AACL 2025
  • Received the Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Macau in 2024
  • Action Editor for TACL starting in 2024
  • Ranked 1st in the Discourse-Level Literary Translation task at WMT 2023
  • Leading NSFC, MOST, and FDCT projects on low-resource machine translation
Research Experience
  • Aug. 2025 ~ present: Full Professor, University of Macau
  • Jul. 2022 ~ Jun. 2023: Interim, University of Macau
Background
  • Full Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Macau, leading the Natural Language Processing & Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation Research Group (NLP²CT Lab). His research focuses on computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine translation, and machine learning, with a particular emphasis on deep learning for low-resource machine translation.
Miscellany
  • Hobbies and interests not mentioned