Wing H. Wong

Professor Wing H. Wong, Cofounder and Scientific Advisor, is the Stephen R. Pierce Family Goldman Sachs Professor in Science and Human Health and Professor in the Departments of Statistics (former chairman) and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. Professor Wong and his team began research collaborations with Dr. Yao during the academic research phase of Univfy’s technology development. Professor Wong has provided critical scientific advisory on many fronts, including establishing objective metrics for evaluating prediction model performance and the testing of machine learning parameters required specifically for IVF prediction models. Professor Wong is also a co-inventor on a number of Univfy patent applications.

Professor Wong’s seminal contributions to theoretical statistics – most notably, Bayesian network structures, machine learning, Monte Carlo and applied statistics in computational biology – have been recognized with numerous awards and honors. In 2009, he was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences for developing innovative high-throughput genomics analysis tools, pivotal in driving genomics research in the past decade.