Adams Wai Kin Kong
Associate Professor
College of Computing and Data Science
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue,
Singapore, 639798
Office: N4-02a-017
Tel: 65-6513-8041
Fax: 65-6792-6559
E-mails: adamskong AT ntu.edu.sg / adamskong AT ieee.org
Biography
Dr. Adams Wai-Kin Kong received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the director of Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence programme. His research works have been published in major AI conferences and journals. One of his papers was selected as a spotlight paper by IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and another one was selected as Honorable Mention by Pattern Recognition. He is listed in Stanford University's Top 2% Scientists’ Study. His PhD students received Best Student Paper Awards in The IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), 2012 and IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2013. In 2016, he received the best reviewer award from BTAS.
In the summer of 2008, he served
as an expert witness to the U.S. Department of Justice for the
child sexual abuse
case,
United States v, Michael Pepe.
He also serves as a consultant for other legal cases in Singapore and as
an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
In 2022, Dr. Kong was nominated for the MSc in Business Analytics Teacher of the Year Award and received faculty award from his school. His recent research interests include pattern recognition, deep learning and their applications on power systems, healthcare, and biometrics.
What's New
Nithish Muthuchamy Selvaraj, Xiaobao
Guo, Adams Kong, Bingquan Shen and Alex Kot, "Adapter
Incremental Continual Learning of Efficient Audio Spectrogram
Transformers" INTERSPEECH 2023
Fan Wang and Adams Kong, “A Practical Upper Bound for the
Worst-Case Attribution Deviations”, CVPR, 2023
Fan Wang received NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award.
Adams received 2022 SCSE Faculty Award
Fan Wang and Adams Kong, "Exploiting the Relationship Between Kendall's Rank Correlation and Cosine Similarity for Attribution Protection", NeurIPS 2022
Yew Lee Tan, Adams Kong, and Jung-jae Kim, "Pure Transformer with Integrated Experts for Scene Text Recognition", ECCV 2022
Yi Huang and Adams Kong, “Transferable Adversarial Attack based
on Integrated Gradients” ICLR, 2022
Yew Lee Tan, Ernest
Chew, Adams Kong, Jung-jae Kim, Joo-Hwee Lim
Zechen Wang, Liangzhen Zheng, Sheng
Wang, Mingzhi Lin, Zhihao Wang, Adams Wai-Kin Kong, Yuguang Mu, Yanjie
Wei, Weifeng Li, “A fully differentiable ligand pose optimization
framework guided by deep learning and a traditional scoring function'',
Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2022