[2] Wong retired in 1994, since then holding the title of Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley.

[3] The IEEE, as part of an award citation, wrote that Wong "is known for the extraordinary breadth of his accomplishments"[4] and "for leadership in national and international engineering research and technology policy, for pioneering contributions in relational databases.

"[5] In 1973, Michael Stonebraker and his colleague Eugene Wong, having read Edgar F. Codd's work regarding the relational data model,[6] began their own research into the topic.

When "The Design and Implementation of Ingres" (Interactive graphics and retrieval system) was published in 1976,[7][8] two other names, Peter Kreps and Gerald Held, were listed as authors.

He has mentored 21 PhD students,[12] including: With the late Moshe Zakai, he originated a line of study in stochastic calculus now known as Wong-Zakai theory.