Eugene Wong

Eugene Wong
Eugene Wong
	Eugene Wong shaking hands with President George H.W. Bush on July 26, 1990 in the Oval Office.
Born	December 24, 1934; Nanjing, China
Alma mater	Princeton University
Spouse	Joan Chang
Awards	Academician of Academia Sinica; 1988 ACM Software System Award; Member of National Academy of Engineering, 1987; Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1980; IEEE Fellow, 1974; 1968 Guggenheim Fellow;
	Scientific career
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley; IBM; University of Cambridge
Thesis	Vector Stochastic Processes in Problems of Communication Theory (1959)
Doctoral advisor	John B. Thomas
Doctoral students	Bruce Hajek; Yannis Ioannidis; Randy Katz; R. C. T. Lee; Caro Lucas;

Eugene Wong (born December 24, 1934, in Nanking, China) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and mathematician. Wong's career has spanned academia, university administration, government and the private sector. Together with Michael Stonebraker and a group of scientists at IBM, Wong is credited with pioneering database research in the 1970s from which software developed by IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle descends. Wong retired in 1994, since then holding the title of Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley.

The IEEE, as part of an award citation, wrote that Wong "is known for the extraordinary breadth of his accomplishments" and "for leadership in national and international engineering research and technology policy, for pioneering contributions in relational databases."

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