Stephen Wong, Ph.D. (CS), BS (EE hons.), PE (EE) is the founding Director of the Center for Bioinformatics, Harvard Center of Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), and an Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital. Stephen is a hybrid scientist. He published over 150 peer-reviewed technical papers and held six patents in biomedical informatics. He has broad R&D experience worldwide for two decades with HP, Bell Labs, ICOT-Japanese 5th Generation artificial intelligence project, Philips Electronics, Charles Schwab, and UCSF. He was a key member of UCSF hospital-integrated PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) effort, founded product development groups of Philips Medical Systems in Silicon Valley, and directed the Web trading development of one of the largest secured eCommerce sites (Schwab.com). Stephen received his executive education from MIT Sloan, Stanford University and Columbia University.