Curriculum Vitae

Koon-Pong Wong, Ph.D.
Department of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
B2-085E Center for the Health Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Education

• 9/1993 - 7/1996: B.Eng. (1^st Class Hons) in Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• 8/1996 - 7/1999: Ph.D., Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
  • Doctoral dissertation: Noninvasive Quantification of Brain Function using Positron Emission Tomography

Employment History

• 7/2007 - present: Staff Researcher, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
• 1/2006 - 6/2007: Post-Doctoral Fellow, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
• 7/2003 - 7/2005: Post-Doctoral Fellow (University Fellowship), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• 7/2002 - 6/2003: Research Fellow, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• 8/1999 - 4/2002: NH&MRC Research Associate, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• 6/1996 - 8/1996: Student Assistant, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Honorary/Visiting Positions

• 8/1999 - 4/2002: Visiting Scientist, Department of PET & Nuclear Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
• 8/1996 - 3/1997: Visiting Scholar, Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Professional Qualifications

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA
• Member, Australian Computer Society (ACS), Australia

Awards and Honors

• 2011: Co-author, Alavi-Mandell Award for the paper entitled "Movement correction method for human brain PET images: Application to quantitative analysis of dynamic 18F-FDDNP scans", published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2010 (Society of Nuclear Medicine)
• 2011: Honorable Mention for scientific presentation "Simplified quantification of FDDNP PET studies" in Basic Science Summary Session, 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, San Antonio, Texas
• 2011: Society of Nuclear Medicine - Computer and Instrumentation Council Young Investigator Award, Honorable Mention
• 2010: Ranked Top 10 (out of 145) in Instrumentation & Data Analysis track for scientific poster "Effects of administration route and dietary condition on FDG kinetics and uptake in mice," 57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
• 2009: Society of Nuclear Medicine - Computer and Instrumentation Council Young Investigator Award (2nd Place)
• 2009: Honorable Mention for scientific presentation "A hybrid modeling approach to estimate plasma input function for FDG-PET studies in mice" in Basic Science Summary Session, 56th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, Canada
• 2008: Honorable Mention for scientific presentation "Quantitative analysis of [18F]FDDNP PET using subcortical white matter as reference region" in Basic Science Summary Session, 55th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
• 2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Travel Award
• 2007: Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Asia, 1st edition
• 2007: Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Emerging Leaders, 1st edition
• 2007-2010: Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th editions
• 2003-2005: University Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 1996-1999: Research Studentship, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 1996-1999: Postgraduate Tuition Scholarship, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

External Professional Activities

• Technical Committee:
  • Member, International Federation on Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Modelling and Control of Biomedical Systems (TC 8.2), 2003-
  • Executive Secretary, IFAC Technical Committee on Modelling and Control of Biomedical Systems (TC 8.2), 2003-2008
• Editorial Offices Held:
  • Guest Editor, International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, 2012-13
  • Member of Editorial Board, ISRN Geriatrics, 2012
  • Guest Editor, Control Engineering Practice, 2005
  • Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Signal Processing, 2004-2005
  • Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Information Technology, 2004-2005
• Conference Organization/Committee:
  • Member, International Programme Committee, 8th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems, Budapest, Hungary, August 2012
  • Member, International Programme Committee, 7th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2009
  • Member, International Programme Committee, 6th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Reims, France, September 2006
  • Member, International Programme Committee, 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA'04), Harbin, China, January 2004
  • Session Chair, 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003
  • Member, International Programme Committee, 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003
• Reviewer for Journals/Book Publisher:
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • Control Engineering Practice
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Research
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
  • International Journal of Environment and Pollution
  • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • Molecular Imaging and Biology
  • Neuroscience
  • Physics in Medicine and Biology
• Reviewer for Meetings:
  • 8th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems, Budapest, Hungary, August 2012
  • 7th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2009
  • 6th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Reims, France, September 2006
  • 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 2005
  • 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing (ISIMP'04), Hong Kong, October 2004
  • 2nd International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA'04), Harbin, China, January 2004
  • 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003
  • IFAC 15th Triennial World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002
  • 2001 Pan-Sydney Area Workshop on Visual Information Processing, Sydney, Australia, December 2001

Research Interests

• Modeling and kinetic analysis of PET, SPECT, and microPET data
• Biomedical imaging (PET/SPECT/MR/CT) with application to neurology and oncology
• Development of quantitative analysis methodologies and their automation
• Medical image analysis--functional segmentation, compression, registration, head movement correction

Major Invited Talks and Presentations

• Oral Presentation, 2013 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 10 June 2013, "A simplified and robust approach for blood-to-tissue transport constants and vascular volume estimation in FDG-PET studies"
• Oral Presentation, 2013 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 10 June 2013, "Evaluation of parametric imaging methods for blood-to-tissue transfer measurements with dynamic FDG-PET in human traumatic brain injury"
• Invited Talk, 2nd Pacific Coast Statisticians and Pharmacometricians Innovation Conference (PaSiPHIC), San Luis, Obispo, California, 14 July 2011, "Quantification of glucose metabolism in mice using 18F-FDG and small-animal PET"
• Oral Presentation, 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, 5 June 2011, "Simplified quantification of FDDNP PET studies"
• Oral Presentation, 58th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, 8 June 2011, "Impact of nonsteady plasma glucose level on the calculated cerebral metabolic rates of glucose in mice"
• Oral Presentation, 56th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 17 June 2009, "Derivation of input function for FDG-PET studies in mice with intraperitoneal injection"
• Oral Presentation, 56th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 14 June 2009, "A hybrid modeling approach to estimate plasma input function for FDG-PET studies in mice"
• Oral Presentation, IEEE Medical Imaging Conference, Dresden, Germany, 25 October 2008, "Modeling approach to estimate [¹⁸F]FDG blood sample measurements in mice by use of urinary bladder time-activity data"
• Oral Presentation, 55th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, 16 June 2008, "Quantitative analysis of [¹⁸F]FDDNP PET using subcortical white matter as reference region"
• Invited Talk, "Noninvasive Extraction of Physiological Functions and Anatomic Structures from Dynamic Emission Tomography", Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 2005
• Speaker, Visit by Hong Kong Healthcare and Medical Device Manufacturers Association: "Research and Development in Medical Diagnosis and Monitoring in Electronic and Information Engineering", The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, August, 2004
• Oral Presentation, 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, August 2003
• Invited Talk, "Mathematical Techniques for Dynamic PET/SPECT Imaging", Department of PET and Nuclear Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia, April 2002
• Seminar, "Lesion Localisation with PET using Cluster Analysis", Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, May 2001
• Seminar, "Noninvasive Determination of the Input Function in PET by a Monte Carlo Approach and Cluster Analysis", Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia, April 2001
• Invited Talk, "Noninvasive Quantification Techniques for Neurological PET Studies", Department of PET and Nuclear Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia, August 2000
• Oral Presentation, 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Hong Kong, November 1998
• Oral Presentation, 3rd International Conference on Quantification of Brain Function with PET, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Maryland, June 1997
• Oral Presentation, IEEE Region Ten Conference on Digital Signal Processing Applications, Perth, Australia, November 1996

Courses Taught

• Computer Tomography: Theory and Applications (Graduate Level) [UCLA]: Winter 2010, 2011
• Logic Design (using VHDL) (Undergraduate Level) [HKPU]: Semester 2, 2003
• Computer Programming and Basic Software Engineering (Undergraduate Level) [HKPU]: Semester 2, 2002; Semester 1, 2003
• Information Technology in Biomedicine (Graduate Level) [USyd]: Autumn 2000, Winter 2001
• Biomedical Instrumentation and Measurement (Graduate Level) [HKPU]: Spring 1998