He obtained his BSc degree from the same department in 1999, and PhD degree in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering from MIT in 2008. Dr Wong was previously an Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair (Academic) in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He also worked as a consulting tunnel engineer at CDM in the USA and as an Engineering Geology Graduate in the Hong Kong Government. His teaching and research interests are in engineering geology, rock mechanics and underground engineering.