Professors

vchan headphotoProf. Vincent W. S. Chan, Joan and Irwin Jacobs Professor of EECS, MIT

Prof. Chan received his BS(71), MS(71), EE(72), and Ph.D.(74) degrees in EE all from MIT. From 1974 to 1977, he was an assistant professor, EE, at Cornell University. He joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1977 and had been Division Head of the Communications and Information Technology Division until becoming the Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (1999–2007). He is currently a member of the Claude E. Shannon Communication and Network Group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics of MIT. In July 1983, he initiated the Laser Intersatellite Transmission Experiment Program and in 1997, the follow-on GeoLITE Program. In 1989, he formed the All-Optical-Network Consortium among MIT, AT&T and DEC.  He also formed and served as PI the Next Generation Internet Consortium, ONRAMP among AT&T, Cabletron, MIT, Nortel and JDS, and a Satellite Networking Research Consortium formed between MIT, Motorola, Teledesic and Globalstar. He has served in many US/non-US government advisory boards/committees and the Board of Governors of the Communication Society including VP of Publications. He also has been active with several start-ups and was a director of a Fortune-500 company and chaired its technical advisory board. He is a Member of the Corporation of Draper Laboratory and is a member of Eta-Kappa-Nu, Tau-Beta-Pi and Sigma-Xi, and the Fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America.

vli headphotoProf. Victor O. K. Li, BBS, Chair of Information Engineering and Head of EEE, HKU

Prof. Victor O. K. Li received SB, SM, EE and ScD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1981, respectively. He is Chair Professor of Information Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He has also served as Assoc. Dean of Engineering and Managing Director of Versitech Ltd., the technology transfer and commercial arm of HKU. He served on the board of China.com Ltd., and now serves on the board of Sunevision Holdings Ltd. and Anxin-China Holdings Ltd., listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA, and Director of the USC Communication Sciences Institute. His research is in the technologies and applications of information technology, including clean energy and environment, social networks, wireless networks, and optimization techniques. Sought by government, industry, and academic organizations, he has lectured and consulted extensively around the world. He has received numerous awards, including the PRC Ministry of Education Changjiang Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University, the UK Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Visiting Fellowship in Communications, the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, and the Order of the Bronze Bauhinia Star, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, the IEEE, the IAE, and the HKIE.

Student Members

Anny Zheng, PhD candidate, MIT

Jiayao Wen, PhD candidate, HKU

Yijie Mao, PhD candidate, HKU

Jiao Wang, PhD candidate, HKU

Jiancheng Ye, PhD candidate, HKU

Junhao Lin, PhD candidate, HKU

Xingzheng Zhu, PhD candidate, HKU

Xiangyu Chen, PhD candidate, HKU

Yixuan Zhu, PhD candidate, HKU

Chenxi Sun, PhD candidate, HKU

Qiqi Shuai, PhD candidate, HKU

Yun Chen, PhD candidate, HKU

Jiatao Gu, PhD candidate, HKU

Peiyang Guo, PhD candidate, HKU

Zhiyi Lv, PhD candidate, HKU

Yan Li, PhD candidate, HKU