Engineering professor earns international fellowship

Alexander Wong, a systems design engineering professor at Waterloo, has been elected as a new fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Wong is one of 16 new fellows from around the world elected by their IET peers for their sustained career achievement, leadership and professionalism in engineering and technology disciplines.

Professor Alexander Wong is a new fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Wong has made significant contributions to artificial intelligence and medical imaging, efficient deep learning on the edge, automatic machine learning (AutoML), and computational imaging systems.

A century-old organization, the IET is the world’s largest multidisciplinary professional engineering institution, counting more than 155,000 engineering and technology professionals among its members in 150 countries.