Prof. Raymond W. Yeung
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering, and Co-Director, Institute of Network Coding
Bio
Prof. Yeung received the BS, MEng and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1984, 1985, and 1988, respectively. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1988. He came to
in 1991 and has been with the Department of Information Engineering since then, where he is currently the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering. Since 2010, he has been serving as Co-Director of the
. He is the author of the books
(Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002) and
(Springer 2008), which have been adopted by over 60 institutions around the world. His research interest is in
and
. He was a consultant in a project of Jet Propulsion Laboratory for salvaging the malfunctioning
.
Prof. Yeung is a member of the Board of Governors of the
from 1999 to 2001. He has served on the committees of a number of information theory symposiums and workshops. He was the General Chair of the First Workshop on Network, Coding, and Applications (NetCod 2005), a Technical Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, and a Technical Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Chengdu. He will organize with
the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Hong Kong.
Prof. Yeung also has served on the editorial board of a number of academic journals. He was an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the
from 2002 to 2005. He currently serves as an Editor-at-Large of
, an Editor of
and an Editor of
. He was a recipient of the
, the Best Paper Award (Communication Theory) of the 2004 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and System, the 2005
, and the
from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2007.
Prof. Yeung has been a Changjiang Chair Professor of
and an Advisory Professor of
. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
