Raymond W. Yeung is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and, since 2010, co-director of its Institute of Network Coding. He took bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering at Cornell University in 1984, 1985 and 1988, and joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1988 to work on communications. He moved to CUHK in 1991 and has long worked on information theory and network coding, being one of the co-founders of the field of network coding. He has also written books on the subject and, as co-director, advances both theoretical and applied work at the institute.
Yeung is a co-founder of network coding and has long advanced both its theory and applications at CUHK; his move from Bell Laboratories to academia helped make CUHK an international node for the field.
Achievements
- 1988 · Joined AT&T Bell Laboratories.
- 1991 · Joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- 2010 · Became co-director of the Institute of Network Coding.