Professor Wong is currently the Deputy Provost for Heriot-Watt University Malaysia. 

M. L. D. Wong received his BEng(Hons) in Electronics and Communication Engineering and PhD in Signal Processing from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. In 2004, Professor Wong joined the School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus as a Lecturer. Subsequently, he was appointed a Senior Lecturer in 2007 at the same institution. From 2011 to mid 2012, he was an Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China. In June 2012, he was appointed as an Associate Professor and Acting Dean for Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Science at Swinburne Sarawak. Subsequently, he was appointed as the full Dean in August 2013. Since October 2016, Professor Wong moved to Heriot-Watt University Malaysia to take up the role of Deputy Provost.

Professor Wong is also a Chartered Engineer registered with the Engineering Council UK; a Fellow of the IET; a Fellow and Chartered Professional Engineer with IEAust and a Senior Member of the IEEE. In 2014, he was electecd as the inaugural treasurer of the IEEE CIS Malaysia Chapter and subsequently the vice-chair in 2015. In 2016, he was elected as the inaugural chair for IEEE Sarawak Subsection.

Professor Wong's research interests include statistical signal processing and pattern classification, machine condition monitoring, and VLSI for digital signal processing.