Soung Chang Liew is a professor and division head in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and co-director of the university's Institute of Network Coding. He took his bachelor's, master's, engineer's and doctoral degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1984 to 1988 he worked at MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems on fibre-optic communication networks, and from March 1988 to July 1993 he was at Bellcore, later Telcordia, in New Jersey, working on broadband networks. At CUHK he was associate dean of engineering from 2004 to 2006 and chairman of the Department of Information Engineering from 2006 to 2009. Beyond CUHK he is an adjunct professor at Peking University and Southeast University, and has long been involved in network coding and communication theory.
Liew moved from MIT and Bellcore to Hong Kong and has worked for decades on network coding and broadband networks, connecting CUHK's information engineering through departmental and institute roles to the international communication-theory community.
Achievements
- 1988 · Moved to Bellcore to work on broadband networks, remaining there until 1993.
- 2004 · Served as associate dean of engineering until 2006.
- 2006 · Chaired the Department of Information Engineering until 2009.