Dr. Duncan Wong

Dr Duncan Wong is the CEO of CryptoBLK, which is a Hong Kong based blockchain company focusing on delivering state of the art Distributed Ledger Technology solutions to solve enterprise challenges. Dr Wong is also a founding member of a quantum-safe privacy-preserving cryptocurrency project, Abelian (abelian.info).

Before founding CryptoBLK, Dr Wong was in charge of the Financial Technologies (FinTech) Initiative of the largest R&D Center in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI). The FinTech Initiative was focused on Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, and Machine Learning.

Dr Wong has been a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, then the City University of Hong Kong, and tenured in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. He has authored over 200 research papers in Cryptography and Information Security, and has served as a member including the chair of the program committees for over 100 international conferences in cryptography and information security.