Wei Lee Woon

Associate Professor, Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Biography

Dr. Wei Lee Woon received his BEng degree in electronic engineering (Hons.) from the University of Manchester in 1997, and PhD from the Neural Computing Research Group, Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., in 2002. Upon graduation, he joined the Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST) as an assistant professor, where he served until 2007. He subsequently joined the Masdar Institute (now part of Khalifa University) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He has also held visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include the analysis of renewable energy data, text mining and deep learning. Dr. Woon is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Networks and has advised UAE government entities on issues pertaining to the use of AI. To date, he has published over 80 times in peer reviewed journals and conferences, and these have received over a 1000 citations. His work has been covered in prominent media including Nature News and Physics World.