Cheuk Ting Li is a professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, which he joined in January 2020. He took a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a bachelor's degree in information engineering at CUHK in 2012, and master's (2014) and doctoral (2018) degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford University; after his doctorate he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. His research sits within information theory, and he has received the 2016 IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award and the 2023 Information Theory Society Paper Award. He has served on the technical programme committees of IEEE ISIT in 2025 and 2026 and the IEEE Information Theory Workshop from 2022 to 2024, and is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Li's work continues core questions in information theory, and he takes part in the international community through top-conference paper awards and journal editing; his path from an undergraduate degree at CUHK to a Stanford doctorate and back to a CUHK professorship is an example of locally trained researchers returning.
Achievements
- 2016 · Received the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award.
- 2020 · Joined the Department of Information Engineering at CUHK.
- 2023 · Received the Information Theory Society Paper Award.