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Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. WONG Yew Hoong received his B. Eng. (Hons.) in Materials Engineering in 2009 and Ph.D. in Electronic Materials in 2012 from the School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia. He was a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore before joining University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia. He is now serving as an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UM. He is also the Programme Coordinator in the department since January 2016 to date.

Dr. Wong is actively engaging himself in research activities. His main research area is on semiconducting or electronic thin-film materials (including oxides, nitrides, and organic polymers), electronic device fabrication, electronic packaging, and gas sensing materials. To date, he has published more than 65 research papers in high impact factor ISI-indexed journals and 2 invited book chapters. His current standing of h-index is 15 (Web of Science) or 17 (Google Scholar). Owing to his expertise in the field, he was being invited several times as invited speaker in various conferences and seminars, for instance, Nanomaterials Characterization and Applications Seminar 2013 in UM Malaysia, ISI Publication Workshop 2015 twice in Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) Malaysia, International Conference on Advances in Functional Materials (AFM) 2015 in New York, USA and 2016 in Jeju, South Korea, Asia Pacific Ceramic Corporation Summit (APCCS) 2016 in Singapore, Materials Characterization Workshop 2017 (MaCh2017) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the 2018 20^th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Packaging (EMAP2018), Hong Kong. Besides, Dr. Wong is also being invited to serve as a reviewer for several refereed journals. To date, he has reviewed more than 90 manuscripts for ISI journals. He is also being invited as an examiner for theses, both internal and external.

On professional qualifications, he is a Professional Engineer (PEng) in Material Engineering discipline registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) registered with the Engineering Council UK, and a Project Management Professional (PMP) registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA.

Dr. Wong is also very active in professional and community activities. He is a Corporate Member of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (MIEM). He was elected as Secretary-cum-Treasurer of Electronic Engineering Technical Division (eETD) under the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) in 2016/2017 and is serving as its Committee Member since 2013 to date. In addition, he is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE). He has been elected as Executive Committee Member in 2016 and Secretary from 2017 to 2020 for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Malaysia Chapter. He is also an Elected Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE) UK and serves as an Academic Liaison Officer (ALO) for the UM-Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Student Chapter.

He is the recipient of UM Excellence Service Award in 2017 and UM Excellence Service Certificates consecutively in 2019 and 2020. Recently, he is being recognized globally by IEEE-EPS, USA and being awarded 2020 EPS Outstanding Young Engineer Award for his contributions to the field of electronic packaging materials and semiconductor fabrication technologies through novel material and process development, as well as continuous service to EPS (https://eps.ieee.org/awards/outstanding-young-engineer-award.html).