Simon Fong

Simon Fong was graduated from La Trobe University, Australia, with a 1st Class Honours BEng. He received the Master degree in Computer Systems degree in 1993, and his PhD. in 1998.

Simon is currently an Associate Professor at the Computer and Information Science Department of the University of Macau. He is a co-founder of the Data Analytics and Collaborative Computing Research Group in the Faculty of Science and Technology. Prior to his academic career, Simon took up various managerial and technical posts, such as systems engineer, IT consultant and e-commerce director in Australia and Asia.

Dr. Fong serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Network and Computer Applications by Elsevier, IEEE IT Professional Magazine, and various special issues of SCIE-indexed journals. He has published over 380 international conference and peer-reviewed journal papers, mostly in the areas of data mining, data stream mining, big data analytics, meta-heuristics optimization algorithms, and their applications.