Derek F. Wong
Full Professor
- University-level Teaching Excellence Award 2023/2024, University of Macau, 2024.
- FST Teaching Excellence Award 2023/2024, University of Macau, 2024.
- Excellence Award, Tencent AI Lab Rhino-Bird Research Program 2023.
- The Second Prize of the Technological Invention Award, Macao Science and Technology Award 2022.
- 2021/2022 Incentive Scheme for Outstanding Academic Staff, presented by the University of Macau Development Foundation (UMDF) of the University of Macau (UM), 2022.
- FST Research Excellence Award, presented by the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) of the University of Macau (UM), 2022.
- FST Teaching Excellence Award 2017/2018, University of Macau, 2018.
- The Second Prize of Macau Science and Technology Progress Award, Macao Science and Technology Award 2012.
- Best Paper Award at the First Workshop on VLM4RWD | NeurIPS 2025.
- Ranked 1st in Discourse-Level Literary Translation, The Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2024), 2024
- Ranked 1st in Machine Translation – Quality Estimation on Multilingual/English-Russian Translation Systems, The Seventh Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2022), 2022
- Ranked 2nd in Machine Translation – Quality Estimation on English-German and Chinese-English Translation Systems, The Seventh Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2022), 2022
- Ranked 1st in Machine Translation – Evaluation Metrics on Chinese-English/Czech-English/German-English/Japanese-English Translation Systems, The Sixth Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2021), 2021
- Ranked 2nd in Machine Translation – Evaluation Metrics on Hausa-English and Icelandic-English Translation Systems, The Sixth Machine Translation Conference (WMT 2021), 2021
- Ranked 3rd in Dialog System, CCF Big Data & Computing Intelligence Contest (CCF BDCI), China, 2021
- Ranked 1st and 2nd for Chinese-English Newswires Translation, The 13th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2017), Dalian, China, 2017
- Ranked 2nd in Chinese-English/English-Chinese Newswires Translation, The 11th China Workshop on Machine Translation (CWMT 2015), Anhui, China, 2015
- Ranked 1st in English-German/Czech-English/French-English Medical Translation, The 9th Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2014), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014
- Ranked 2nd in German-English/English-Czech/English-French Medical Translation, The 9th Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2014), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2014
- Ranked 3rd in Grammatical Error Correction, The 7th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2013), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013
- Ranked 2nd in Machine Translation – Evaluation Metrics on English to French, German, Spanish, Czech and Russian Translation Systems, The 8th Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT 2013), Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013
- Ranked 2nd in Traditional Chinese Parsing, The 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2012), Tianjin, China, 2012
- Ranked 2nd in Chinese Personal Name Disambiguation, The 2nd CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing (CLP2012), Tianjin, China, 2012
- Fengying Ye, 2026 FST Best MSc Student Award in Artificial Intelligence Programme of Department of Computer Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- WeSpeak: Web Based Simultaneous Interpretation System, 2024
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of
- Xuebo Liu, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, 2023
- iSpeak: A Text-to-Speech System for Cantonese, 2023
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- Yu Sheng: AI Poem Writing, 2022
- Champion, IEEE Project Codmpetition, Macao, China
- Third Prize, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Undergraduate Contest, Macau, China
- First Prize, The 17th Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition, China
- Third Prize, “Sharing Cup” Innovation Competition of Science and Technology Resources Sharing Service, China
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- UMor-PG: The Intelligent Chatbot for Postgraduate Admission Information! 2022
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- Xuebo Liu, Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates, Macau Science and Technology Award, 2022
- Candarin: Can You Read Cantonese? Candarin Can Help! 2021
- Third Prize, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Undergraduate Contest, Macau, China
- Third Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
- FST Dean List and Best of the Best, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
- Baosong Yang, Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates, Macau Science and Technology Award, 2020
- UMor: A UM Chatbot, 2020
- First Prize, The UM Mobile APP Development Competition
- Second Prize, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Undergraduate Contest, Macau, China
- Third Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
- Third Prize, Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition
- FST Dean List, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
- iLearner: An Intelligent e-Learning Platform for Teaching & Learning, 2019
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- Automatic Generation of Test Questions for Language Learning, 2018
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- UM-iMethod2: Chinese-Portuguese Translation Oriented Interactive Input Method (IME) System, 2017
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- iCommuter: Railway Scheduling and Control System with Enhanced Route Management, 2016
- FST Dean List and Best of the Best, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
- iFinger – Study of Gesture Recognition Technologies & Its Applications, 2014
- First Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
- FST Dean List and Best of the Best, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
- iInteract – Study of Eye Tracking Technologies and Its Applications, 2012
- First Prize, Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition, Chongqing, China (340 projects from 200 universities)
- Creativity Prize, Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition, Chongqing, China (340 projects from 200 universities)
- Merit of Tertiary Award, Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards (APICTA), Brunei Darussalam (156 nominations from 16 countries)
- Merit Award, Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards (MICTA), Macao, China
- First Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- CanSpeak – Cantonese Text to Speech System, 2012
- Second Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
- FST Dean List and Best of the Best, Faculty Science and Technology, University of Macau
- Cyclops II: Snapshot Mobile Translation System Based on Thin Client-Server Architecture, 2012
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- KERST – Cantonese-to-English Real-Time Speech Translation System, 2011
- FST Dean List, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
- iTagIt! Automatic Image Annotation System, 2010
- First Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
- Compact OCR Based on Peripheral Direction Contributivity and Its Application in Pocket Based Snapshot (Chinese) Translation (Cyclops), 2009
- Second Prize, Amway Pan-Pearl Delta River Region Universities IT Project Competition, Chongqing, China (out of 46 teams)
- First Prize, The 11th Challenge Cup – National Contest of College Students’ Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Achievements, China
- Third Prize, Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards (MICTA), Macao, China
- English to Chinese Machine Translation based on Constraint Synchronous Grammar (CSG), 2006
- Second Prize, Amway Pan-Pearl Delta River Region Universities IT Project Competition, Guangzhou Computer Society, China (out of 44 teams)
- Merit of Tertiary Student Project Category, Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards (APICTA), Macau
- Third Prize, Macau Information and Communications Technology Awards (MICTA), Macao, China
Practicability Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China
- Pak Pak Serves You – Application on Interactive Dialogue and Answering (IDQA) System, 2005
- Third Prize, The 11th Challenge Cup – National Contest of College Students’ Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Achievements, China
- Second Prize, IEEE Project Competition, Macao, China