Dr. Patrick Wong is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications at The Open University, United Kingdom. He joined the university in December 1999 and has served as Deputy Head of School since 2023. He chairs the Next Generation Multimedia Technologies Research Group and has supervised six PhD students to completion. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree in Digital Systems Engineering, awarded in 1993, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, awarded in 1999, from the University of Sunderland, UK. His research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, biometric recognition, deepfake detection, image processing, fault prediction and detection, and cognitive radio technologies. He is also involved in research on AI-based image analysis and automated video-processing systems. Dr. Wong is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Chartered Engineer. He serves on the editorial board of Kybernetes and has contributed as a guest editor and reviewer for several academic journals. In 2024, he led a team that placed third in the image deepfake category of the UK Home Office’s Deepfake Detection Challenge.
His academic contributions span research, postgraduate supervision, teaching, professional service and collaboration with researchers and institutions in the UK and Hong Kong.