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Work experience

Research associate (Dec. 2021-present)

  • Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
  • Supervisor: Prof. Ajith Parlikad
  • Developed discrete-event simulation models and web dashboards for predicting hospital bed occupancy of COVID-19 patients, for capacity planning and to support recovery of selected non-Covid services.
  • Developed discrete-event simulation models and web dashboards for process modelling in a histopathology lab, for KPI prediction, resource planning, and process optimisation.
  • Current activities:
    • Further development of the above.
    • Set the foundation for developing hospital digital twins, deepening understanding of hospital operations, asset management, and patient outcomes.

Research Associate (2020-2021), Research Fellow (2018-2020), Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018)

  • City University of Hong Kong
  • Supervisor: Dr. Eric W. M. Wong
  • Assisted in the writing of grant applications and project reports, especially in the area of healthcare operations management.
  • Developed analytical and simulation models for the evaluation, and optimization of intensive care networks in Hong Kong and other metropolitan cities.
  • Developed stochastic models for infectious disease.
  • Developed simulation and analytical approximation methods for blocking probability in overflow loss system models, including machine learning-based methods, with applications in various telecommunications and service systems.
  • Mentored undergraduate students on the completion of their final year projects. Instructed final-year undergraduate students on writing simulation programs for stochastic system models.

Co-lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Jul-Sep 2021)

  • Co-lecturer of the capstone course “Design Project” on engineering design for students in Electrical and Information Engineering.
  • I was invited to co-lecture this course thanks to my previous collaboration with Prof. Anton van Wyk on epidemiological modelling for COVID-19.
  • Students choosing our selected topic would need to design a simple epidemiological model for COVID-19, analyze possible tipping points leading to an out-of-control local epidemic, and design an early-warning system to avoid hitting these tipping points.

Education

  • Ph.D, City University of Hong Kong, 2017
    • Thesis Title: Surrogate-based Approximation of Blocking Probability in Non-hierarchical Overflow Loss Systems
    • Supervisor: Dr. Eric W. M. Wong
    • Co-supervisor: Prof. Moshe Zukerman
  • M.Sc. in Multimedia Information Technology, City University of Hong Kong, 2011
  • B.Math., University of Waterloo, 2010

Publications

Link

Patent

W. M. E. Wong, J. T. Wu, Y. C. Chan, and M. Zukerman, “Base station sleep mode based on power consumption and/or quality of service,” US patent 10568047B2, 2020. Available: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10568047B2/en

Skills

  • Extensive experience with discrete-event simulation in Python (using the salabim and Simpy libraries) and Arena.
  • Web dashboard development in Python using Dash
  • Experience with Docker/Docker Compose
  • Document preparation with \(\LaTeX\), R bookdown, and Quarto
  • Some experience in R, Julia, Java, C++, MATLAB, and SQL

Continuing education certificates

Data Science (HarvardX)

  • Course provider: edX
  • Earned: Oct 2022
  • Nine courses on data science using the R tidyverse packages, including plotting, inference and modelling, data wrangling, and string processing.
  • Program record

Epidemics – Origins, Spread, Control and Communication (HKUx)

  • Course provider: edX
  • Earned: July 2022
  • Four courses on the origins, spread and control of infectious disease epidemics and effective communication about infectious diseases
  • Program record