Peter Tak Shing Yum is an emeritus professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Born in Shanghai and educated in Hong Kong, he went to Columbia University, where he took bachelor's, master's, Master of Philosophy and doctoral degrees between 1974 and 1978. In April 1978 he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories to work on switching and signalling systems for about two and a half years, then taught at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan for two years before joining CUHK in 1982. At CUHK he chaired the Department of Information Engineering twice and was elected Dean of Engineering for two consecutive terms from 2004 to 2010, stepping down from administrative duties on 1 June 2010.
Yum moved from Bell Laboratories to CUHK and served the information engineering department and the engineering faculty for decades, chairing the department twice and serving two terms as dean.
Achievements
- 1978 · Completed a PhD at Columbia University and joined Bell Telephone Laboratories the same year.
- 1982 · Joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- 2004 · Served as Dean of Engineering until 2010.