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Prof. Kin K. Leung Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computing Departments at Imperial College |
Bio
Kin K. Leung is the Tanaka Chair Professor in Internet Technology, a joint appointment of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computing Departments at Imperial College. He started his career at AT&T Bell Labs in 1986 after completing his Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles. As Lucent Technologies was spun off from AT&T in 1996, he moved with his organization to AT&T Labs. In 2002, he re-joined and worked at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, until joining Imperial College in 2004.
Throughout his career at AT&T/Lucent Bell Labs, he worked in a wide variety of research areas, ranging from distributed processing systems in his early years, to performance analysis, traffic engineering for quality of service, network control algorithms and protocols, and currently broadband wireless communications and wireless ad-hoc, mesh and sensor networks. He has made breakthrough contributions to network performance analysis, wireless communications and network protocols, which earned him major awards and honors such as: 1) Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2004 to 2009 for contributions to communication networks and technologies, and continuing his research in the U.K.; 2) IEEE Fellow in 2001 for contributions to performance analysis, protocol design, and control algorithms for communications networks; 3) Co-recipient of Honorable Mention Award of 1997 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for best published contribution in Operations Research; and 4) Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award from AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1994 for contributions to network performance analyses and their applications to AT&T products and services.
Professor Leung has extensive experience in leading and managing research at AT&T and Imperial College. Notably, he led a team of researchers to develop wireless technology which was implemented in AT&T's fixed wireless network intended for providing voice and high-speed data services to millions of homes throughout the U.S. in the late 1990’s. In the early 2000’s, he led and coordinated a team of colleagues to investigate potential applications of IEEE 802.11, which was originally devised an industrial standard for indoor wireless local-area-networks, to outdoor cellular environments.
Since joining Imperial College in 2004, Professor Leung has been leading and coordinating a number major collaborative research projects in wireless communications. In particular, he leads the EU FP6 IST MEMBRANE project with a total funding of €2.8 million for seven institutes to devise new antenna and communication technologies for wireless backhaul applications. He is also a key partner in the International Technology Alliance (ITA) consortium led by IBM with a total research funding of U.S. $155 million from the U.S. Army and U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD). In that initiative, he serves in leadership roles and collaborates with a large number of partners, including the U.S. Army for possible transfer of invented technologies to military applications. In the near future, he will assume the role of the Deputy Director of the University Defense Research Center to be established at Imperial College. The Center funded by the U.K. MoD is responsible to perform defense-related research, coordinate research programs at various universities and advise MoD in digital signal processing and related areas.
Professor Leung has published more than 130 journal and conference papers, received 31 patents and filed 16 other patents to the U.S. and U.K. Patent Offices in a wide variety of areas in communication networks and technologies. Many of his results were applied to AT&T and Lucent products and services. He serves on the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee for Communications Society from 2009 to 2011. He has served in leadership roles on program committees for more than 35 conferences. He served as a guest editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), the MONET Journal, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and IEEE Wireless Communications, and as an editor for the JSAC: Wireless Series. He is now an editor for the IEEE Trans. on Communications, the IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications and International Journal on Sensor Networks.
