Prof. Dr. Philip Pong

Philip W. T. Pong received a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002 with first-class honors. He then obtained a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for three years. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interests focus on fault detection, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection in the power grid. He is the Founding Director of the Green Technology Research and Training Laboratory, leading the research and education activities in offshore wind energy at NJIT. Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, and Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards of several IEEE and SCI journals.