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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
44
Citations
8019
World Ranking
3730
National Ranking
171

Research.com Recognitions

  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Kon Max Wong is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of engineering. Their work covers several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, control and systems engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and transportation.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of areas: traffic control and management, neural networks and applications, neural dynamics and brain function, transportation planning and optimization, quantum computing algorithms and architecture, advanced memory and neural computing, and air traffic management and optimization.

Kon Max Wong has contributed articles to multiple scientific venues. These include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • New Mathematics and Natural Computation
  • Physical Review E
  • Nature Communications

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Wong are:

  • "Bifurcation behaviors shape how continuous physical dynamics solves discrete Ising optimization" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "Neural feedback facilitates rough-to-fine information retrieval" (2022), published in Neural Networks
  • "The dynamics of traffic congestion: Data from a freeway Electronic Toll Collection system" (2024), published in Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • "Switching Behavior and Control Policy of Congestion: Examples from Taiwan Highway System" (2020), published in New Mathematics and Natural Computation
  • "Utility and interpretation of multiple breath washout in children with cystic fibrosis" (2025), published in Archives of Disease in Childhood Education & Practice

Their frequent coauthors include Maisy Wong, Shing-Yi Wang, Juntao Wang, Daniel Ebler, and David Shui Wing Hui.

Awards associated with Kon Max Wong include recognition by The Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Robust adaptive beamforming for general-rank signal models

    S. Shahbazpanahi;A.B. Gershman;Zhi-Quan Luo;Kon Max Wong

  • Quasi-maximum-likelihood multiuser detection using semi-definite relaxation with application to synchronous CDMA

    Wing-Kin Ma;T.N. Davidson;Kon Max Wong;Zhi-Quan Luo

  • Estimation of the directions of arrival of spatially dispersed signals in array processing

    Y. Meng;P. Stoica;K.M. Wong

  • Direction finding in partly calibrated sensor arrays composed of multiple subarrays

    M. Pesavento;A.B. Gershman;K.M. Wong

  • Minimum BER block precoders for zero-forcing equalization

    Yanwu Ding;T.N. Davidson;Zhi-Quan Luo;Kon Max Wong

  • Robust Adaptive Beamforming Using Sequential Quadratic Programming: An Iterative Solution to the Mismatch Problem

    A. Hassanien;S.A. Vorobyov;K.M. Wong

  • A fast method for real-time median filtering

    E. Ataman;V. Aatre;K. Wong

  • Equal-diagonal QR decomposition and its application to precoder design for successive-cancellation detection

    Jian-Kang Zhang;A. Kavcic;Kon Max Wong

  • On information theoretic criteria for determining the number of signals in high resolution array processing

    K.M. Wong;Q.-T. Zhang;J.P. Reilly;P.C. Yip

  • Detection of the number of signals: a predicted eigen-threshold approach

    W. Chen;K.M. Wong;J.P. Reilly

  • The estimation of time delay and Doppler stretch of wideband signals

    Qu Jin;Kon Max Wong;Zhi-Quan Luo

  • Statistical analysis of the performance of information theoretic criteria in the detection of the number of signals in array processing

    Q.-T. Zhang;K.M. Wong;P.C. Yip;J.P. Reilly

  • Soft quasi-maximum-likelihood detection for multiple-antenna wireless channels

    B. Steingrimsson;Zhi-Quan Luo;Kon Max Wong

  • Wavelet packet division multiplexing and wavelet packet design under timing error effects

    Kon Max Wong;Jiangfeng Wu;T.N. Davidson;Qu Jin

  • Adaptive beamforming with sidelobe control: a second-order cone programming approach

    Jing Liu;A.B. Gershman;Zhi-Quan Luo;Kon Max Wong

  • Blind adaptive beamforming for cyclostationary signals

    Qiang Wu;Kon Max Wong

  • The Amplify-and-Forward Half-Duplex Cooperative System: Pairwise Error Probability and Precoder Design

    Yanwu Ding;Jian-Kang Zhang;K.M. Wong

  • Online clustering algorithms for radar emitter classification

    Jun Liu;J.P.Y. Lee;Lingjie Li;Zhi-Quan Luo

  • Transceiver optimization for block-based multiple access through ISI channels

    Zhi-Quan Luo;T.N. Davidson;G.B. Giannakis;Kon Max Wong

  • The entropy of ordered sequences and order statistics

    K.M. Wong;S. Chen

  • Some statistical properties of median filters

    E. Ataman;V. Aatre;K. Wong

  • UN-MUSIC and UN-CLE: an application of generalized correlation analysis to the estimation of the direction of arrival of signals in unknown correlated noise

    Qiang Wu;Kon Max Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhi-Quan Luo
Zhi-Quan Luo Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Timothy N. Davidson
Timothy N. Davidson McMaster University
Alex B. Gershman
Alex B. Gershman Technical University of Darmstadt
Wing-Kin Ma
Wing-Kin Ma Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shahram Shahbazpanahi
Shahram Shahbazpanahi University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Sergiy A. Vorobyov
Sergiy A. Vorobyov Aalto University
Aboulnasr Hassanien
Aboulnasr Hassanien Wright State University
Petre Stoica
Petre Stoica Uppsala University
Moeness G. Amin
Moeness G. Amin Villanova University
Aleksandar Kavcic
Aleksandar Kavcic University of Hawaii at Manoa

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