Welcome to Willy Wong's homepage!
I am a professor at Kyushu University working on theoretical and computational neuroscience/engineering. Formerly, I was a professor at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2024. I graduated with degrees in physics and biomedical engineering.
Research interests
1. Diagnostics for sensory impairment
Using algorithms, machine learning, and AI to help detect, monitor, and diagnose problems in hearing and vision.
2. Neural modelling
Theory of neural information; developing and applying neural firing models.
What we are known for
A. An inequality governing the response of sensory neurons: The first-ever mathematical inequality derived for neurons! This beautiful and elegant inequality works universally across different sensory modalities and organisms from different phyla. Data is from single unit auditory fibre (Westerman and Smith, 1984). Click on the image to see more data.
B. Multidimensional Quest: A generalization of the classic Quest algorithm for simultaneous determination of multiple thresholds using the Bayesian method called TORONTO. Click on the image to see TORONTO conduct 24-2 visual field testing.
C. Combining medical structural with functional data: An auto-encoder method to combine objective imaging data with subjective performance-related data. Click on the image to see a larger version of how the auto-encoder uses optical coherence tomography retinal thickness data (RNFL) to create a less noisy visual field (VF) representation.
Do you like math?
If so, try proving the following inequality:
Publications
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Kyushu University
Contact
Department of Informatics, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka Nishi-ku Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Office: Open Learning Plaza 総合学習プラザ 108-2 (#36 on map)
E-mail me at: 16-18-15-6-4-15-20-23-9-12-12-25-4-15-20-23-15-14-7-1-20-9-3-12-15-21-4-4-15-20-3-15-13
(Use a simple number-alphabet cipher to decode it!)
