Tuesday, January 28, 2025
A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been elected a fellow of an organization founded almost 200 years ago to promote the advancement of geographical science.
Dr. Alexander Wong of systems design engineering is one of 16,000 members of the United Kingdom-based Royal Geographical Society, which bills itself as the largest and most active geological society in the world.
In the field of education, the society was responsible for the inclusion of geography in schools at the turn of the 20th century and the first university positions in the discipline.
Wong is a co-director of the Vision and Imaging Processing Research Group (VIP Lab) and former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging.