Rate My Professor Aaron Wong

Wong's research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, biofeedback, and neuroimaging using EEG and MRI data. Following his PhD, he served in a part-time technical support role in Associate Professor Frini Karayanidis’s Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory and collaborated with various research groups, including efforts to model brain function from neuroimaging data to optimize patient assessments and minimize MRI scans in clinical settings. In 2011, he launched the University of Newcastle’s RoboCup Junior project to foster STEM education through robotics in primary schools. Key publications comprise 'Theta frontoparietal connectivity associated with proactive and reactive cognitive control processes' (2014), 'Robot Emotions Generated and Modulated by Visual Features of the Environment' (2013), 'Jointly modeling behavioral and EEG measures of proactive control in task switching' (2023), 'Dissociable theta networks underlie the switch and mixing costs during task switching' (2021), 'Task-switching costs have distinct phase-locked and nonphase-locked EEG power effects' (2020), and 'NUClear: A Loosely Coupled Software Architecture for Humanoid Robotics' (2016). He received the 2023 University of Newcastle Alumni Award for Outstanding Volunteerism. In addition to his honorary position, Wong is an Artificial Intelligence Engineering Manager at 4AI Systems.