Dr. Wong began his graduate training in mechanics and mechanisms of fracture of polymer blends with and without glass fiber reinforcements at UMass Amherst, working with Shanti V. Nair and Lloyd A. Goettler. Later he joined the group of Yiu-Wing Mai, FRS, at University of Sydney on identifying the roles of maleated block copolymers as a sequence of events in toughening nylon polypropylene blends. He later pursued an academic career in Singapore, teaching at the School of Materials Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological University. He received demonstrable external research funding in excess of $1.8 million as a PI, and an additional $662,000 as a co-PI. In addition to pursuing bio-inspired materials research, he has worked on mechanical behavior and functional properties of polymers, electrospinning, processing-structure-property relationships, coatings, bio- and nano-materials and composites.  Dr. Wong has authored and coauthored 60 articles in book, journal and patent literatures. His work is widely cited with a Hirsh index ~ 17. One of his pioneering papers on graphite nanocomposites was cited well over a hundred times.  He was awarded the competitive Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship and in 2007 he was selected as a recipient for the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.