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ProfessorKin Leung

Tanaka Chair in Internet Technology

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Faculty of Engineering

BIO

Please also visit my personal website for additional information at www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~kkleung/

Professional Experiences:

Co-Director, School of Convergence Science in Space, Security and Telecoms, Imperial College (2025 - now)
Tanaka Chair Professor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computing Depts, Imperial College (2004 - now)

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (2002-2004)
Technology Consultant, AT&T Labs (1996-2002)
Member and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Labs (1986-1996)

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1985)
M.S., University of California, Los Angeles (1982)
B.S., the Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (1980)

Major Honors and Awards:

Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2022)
IEEE Fellow (2001)
Member of Academia Europaea (2012)
IET Fellow (2021)
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2004-2009)
Bell Labs Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award (1994)
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2022-2023)
US-UK Science and Technology Stocktake Award (2021)
IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2021)
IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award (2022)
Lanchester Prize Honorable Mention Award (1997)

Current Journal Editorship:

ACM Computing Survey
International Journal of Sensor Networks

Current Research Interests:

Distributed optimization, machine learning and artificial intelligence
Communication and quantum networks: System designs, protocols and control algorithms
Wireless communications: Cross-layer optimization and multi-antenna systems
Mobile, edge, distributed and quantum computing
Stochastic models and network performance

For Kin's recent research papers, visit www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~kkleung/

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Engineering

POSITION NAME

  • Tanaka Chair in Internet Technology

FIELDS OF RESEARCH