Dr Wong is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. He was formerly an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and an Associate Professor at the Prince of Wales Clinical School at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He received his B.Sc (Hons I), specialising in Bioinformatics from the University of Sydney. As an Oxford-Australia scholar, he went on to complete a D.Phil in Bioanalytical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK. This was followed by an Irish Government post-doctoral fellowship at the Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, specialising in Chemical Proteomics, before he returned to Sydney to establish his research group. He has published over 100 original peer-reviewed journal articles with around half as first or senior author in journals including Nature, Science Advances, Cell Reports, Genome Biology, Blood, Molecular Biology & Evolution and Nucleic Acids Research. His current research is focused on the study of mutational processes in cancer and their ultimate effect on gene regulation and function.