Kwok's research lies at the intersection among neuroscience, behavior, and cognition. He is head of the Laboratory of Phylo-Cognition (www.kwoklab.org) and his research team studies the neural bases of memory, episodic time, metacognition, and other related higher cognitive processes across mammalian species. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include cognitive neuroscience, research methods, and behavioral sciences.

He is author of 60 academic papers in leading journals such as eLife, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Communications Biology. He is recipient of the Jiangsu 333 Talent Program (2024), Kunshan Shortage Talent Program (2023), Jiangsu Qinglan Award (2021), Young IBRO Regions Connecting Award (2020), and Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program Award (2016). He is an elected member of the professional society Memory Disorders Research Society (2021). He serves as handling editor for the journal Cognitive Processing (Springer) since 2020.

Kwok has a bachelor's degree in social sciences from the University of Hong Kong and a DPhil in experimental psychology from the University of Oxford. He worked in Santa Lucia Hospital in Roma between 2009 and 2015. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he was associate professor at East China Normal University and held a scholar-in-residence position at NYU Shanghai.