Hon Weng Chong
Role: Investigator
Site: CDL-Melbourne
Stream: Prime
Hon Weng Chong is the founder and CEO of Cortical Labs, a deep technology startup looking to fuse biological material with computing chips resulting in a proto-AGI device. Previously, he was the founder and CTO of CliniCloud, a medtech startup that built full-stack connected medical devices that was backed by Tencent and Ping An ventures.
Hon Weng trained as a medical doctor at The University of Melbourne and was exposed to the world of technology entrepreneurialism during his research year at Johns Hopkins. In addition to being a medical doctor, he is a full-stack software engineer and a machine learning enthusiast. Hon Weng was a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient in 2018.