Wong Fai, Derek  黃輝 Assistant Professor

• Ph.D. in Department of Automation (Control Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing China (2005)
• M.Sc. in Software Engineering, University of Macau, Macau (1999)
• B.Sc. in Software Engineering, University of Macau, Macau (1995)

• Assistant Professor - Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau SAR (February 2008 to now)
• Project Manager - Speech and Language Processing Group, INESC-Macau, Macau SAR (October 2007 to now)
• Research Fellow - Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau SAR (September 2005 to February 2008)
• Research Assistant - Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau SAR (September 1999 to August 2005)
• Research Trainee - University of Macau, Faculty of Science and Technology, Macau SAR (February 1996 to August 1999)
• Engineer/Researcher  - Speech and Language Processing Group, INESC-Macau, Macau SAR (October 1996 to October 2007)
• Research Trainee - GIS group of Multimedia Centre, INESC-Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (July 1995 - September 1996)

M.Sc. Courses

1. Machine Translation (IMSS019) (2011~)

B.Sc. Courses

2. Introduction to Natural Language Processing (SFTW462) (2010~)
3. Compiler Construction (SFTW341) (2006 ~)
4. Logic and Computability (SFTW422) (2007~)
5. Digital Systems I (ELEC110) (2003 ~ )
6. Digital Systems II (ELEC210) (2002 ~ )
7. Software Project Management (SFTW497) (1999)

Pre-University Courses

8. Computer Science (ECCS021) (1998)

Research Interests

• Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics
• Machine Translation, Snapshot Translation, Mobile Based Machine Translation
• Machine Learning, Data Mining

• Syntax modeling & parsing for Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation and Establishment of Macau Key Research Laboratory in Natural Language Processing & Machine Translation (NLPMT), funded by Research Committee of University of Macau and Science and Technology Development Fund,2010–2012.  Co-Principal Investigator.
• Grammatical Inference for Analyzing the Second Language Acquisition (Spoken Portuguese) for Macau Students, cooperated with Department of Portuguese, funded by Research Committee of University of Macau, 2010–2011. Co-Principal Investigator.
• AuTema-Dis II, cooperated with Department of Portuguese, funded by Research Committee of University of Macau, 2010–2011. Co-Principal Investigator.
• Data Mining Model in Analyzing the Acquisition of Portuguese Knowledge for Macau Students, cooperated with Department of Portuguese, funded by Research Committee of University of Macau, 2009–2010. Co-Principal Investigator.
• License Management System (LMS), funded by Macau Government Tourist Office, 2007–2010. Principal Investigator.
• R&D of Knowledge-based Machine-Aided Bi-directional Paragraph Translation in Portuguese-Chinese, funded by Research Committee of University of Macau and Science and Technology Development Fund, 2006–2009. Co-Principal Investigator.
• Knowledge-Based, Field-Oriented Portuguese-Chinese High Accuracy Paragraph Machine Auto Translation System, funded by Research Committee of University of Macau, 2002–2004. Co-Principal Investigator.
• Portuguese to Chinese Sentence by Sentence Machine Translation System, funded by Fundação para a Cooperação e o Desenvolvimento de Macau, cooperated with Tsinghua University and INESC-Macau, 1999–2001. Co-Principal Investigator.
• Portuguese-Chinese Bi-Directional Word by Word Instant Translation System, funded by Fundação para a Cooperação e o Desenvolvimento de Macau, cooperated with Tsinghua University and INESC-Macau, 1999–2000. Co-Principal Investigator.
• P.O. Box Automation System, funded by Macao Post, cooperated with INESC–Macau, 1997–1999. Principal Developer.
• RAMSÉS – Remote Alarm Sensing for the Elderly, funded by Research Committee of University of Macau, 1996–1997. Co-Principal Investigator.
• SGM (Sistema de Gestão de Mapas) and SIGTPE (Sistema de Informaçao Geográfica das Telecomunicações Permanentes do Exército), INSEC–Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 1995- 1996. Principal Developer.

Supervised Projects

1. Compact OCR Based on Peripheral Direction Contributivity and Its Application in Pocket Based Snapshot (Chinese) Translation (Cyclops)
• Amway Cup University Student Computer Works in Pan-Pearl River Delta (2009): Second Prize (Rank 6^th out of 43 teams).
• The 11^th Challenge Cup (第十一屆全國挑戰杯) - National Contest of College Students' Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Achievements (2009): First Prize.
• Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards (MICTA) (2009): Third Prize.
• Ocean-Tech Award (2009): Best Final Year Project in CIS.
2. English to Chinese Machine Translation based on Constraint Synchronous Grammar (CSG)
• Amway Cup University Student Computer Works in Pan-Pearl River Delta (2006): Second Prize (Rank 6^th out of 44 teams).
• IEEE Student Branch Project Competition (2006): Practicability Prize.
• Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards (MICTA) (2006): Third Prize.
• Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards (APICTA) (2006): Merit of Tertiary Student Project Category.
• Ocean-Tech Award (2006): Best Final Year Project in CIS.
3. Pak Pak Serves You - Application on Interactive Dialogue and Answering (IDQA) System
• The 9^th Challenge Cup (第九屆全國挑戰杯) - National Contest of College Students' Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Achievements (2005): Third Prize.
• IEEE Student Branch Project Competition (2005): Second Prize, and Best Performance Prize.

• Professional Member of ACM
• Senior Member of IEEE

Faculty of Science and Technology
University of Macau
Av. Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa,
Macau, China

Room: INESC, B1-B810
Telephone: (853) 8397-4519 or (853) 28835923
Fax: (853) 28835928
Email: derekfw