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Biography

Raymond W. Yeung received the BS, MEng and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1984, 1985, and 1988, respectively. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1988. He came to CUHK in 1991 and has been with the Department since then, where he is currently a chair professor. He is the author of the book entitled A First Course in Information Theory (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002). His research interest is in information theory and network coding. He was a consultant in a project of Jet Propulsion Laboratory for salvaging the malfunctioning Galileo Spacecraft. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Societyfrom 1999 to 2001. He has served on the committees of a number of information theory symposiums and workshops.  He was the General Chair of the First Workshop on Network, Coding, and Applications (NetCod 2005), a Technical Co-Chair of the 2006 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ International Symposium on Information Theory, and a Technical Co-Chair of the 2006 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Workshop, Chengdu. He also has served on the editorial board of a number of academic journals. He was an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Transactions on Information Theory from 2002 to 2005. He currently serves as an Editor-at-Large of Communications in Information and Systems, an Editor of Foundation and Trends in Communications and Information Theory and an Editor of Foundation and Trends in Networking. He was a recipient of the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship for 2000/01, the Best Paper Award (Communication Theory) of the 2004 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and System, the 2005 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society Paper Award, and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2007. He is a Fellow of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.