Primary Job Title Cofounder & Scientific Advisor Primary Organization Univfy
Location Stanford, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Professor Wong is Professor of Statistics in the Departments of Statistics, Health Research Policy, and by courtesy, the Department of Biology at Stanford University. He played a critical role in developing the technology that forms the basis of Univfy's intellectual property.
Professor Wong's seminal contributions to theoretical
statistics -- most notably, Bayesian network structures, machine learning, Monte Carlo, and applied statistics in computational biology -- have been recognized with numerous awards and honors.
In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences for developing innovative high-throughput genomics analysis tools that have been pivotal in driving genomics research in the past decade.
Professor Wong's international research leadership is evidenced by his role as Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of the Center for Statistical Sciences at Peking University and appointment to the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Chair Professor Team at Tsinghua University, also in Beijing.
As Univfy's Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, Professor Wong advises Univfy's scientific team to ensure rigorous quality control of prognostic tests and projects in the R&D pipeline.
