Kelvin Yong received his PhD and BEng(Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology in 2016 and 2010 respectively. After the completion of his study, he served as a post-doctoral fellow at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak on a project on information security. He, then, worked as a lecturer in Curtin University before joining Swinburne Sarawak, also as a lecturer, in 2020.
His research interests include the area of cybersecurity, specifically on information security and cyber threat detection.