Doctoral and Selected Previous
Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests
Peter W. CHEUXG gzgg
Professor
PhD, University of Washington (1973).
Postdocioral Research Associate, Center for Bioengineering, Univer- sity of Washington (1973).
Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington (1985 93).
Director, Microsensor Research Laboratory, Washington Technology Centre (19859C).
Analog integrated circuit design; micro- electronics; microsensors; biosensors;
medical electronics and biomedical instrumentation.
Ping K. KO F&S@
Professor and Dean of Engmeering
PhD, University of California Berkelev (1982). ’ ’
Professor and Vice High-speed VLSI devices, technology, Chair of Electrical Engi- and circuits; MOS device modeling for neering and Computer circuit simulation; CAD tools for inte- Science, University of grated circuit design.
California, Berheley (1990-93). Research Fellow, neering, State Univer- electronic devices; display technologies.
University of Califor- sity of New York at nia, Berkeley (1978-80). Buffalo (1985-92).
S. S. LAU PhD, University of
gg $g /g California, Berkeley
Visiting Professor (1969).
Professor, University of California, San Diego (1960- ).
Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1972-80).
Electronic materials science; advanced semiconductor, heterostructure materials and devices.
MingLei LIOU
!zil%S Professor and Director, Hongkong Telecom Institute of Information Techno-
‘%Y
PhD, Stanford Univer- sity (1964).
Director, Video Signal Processing Research, Bellcore (1984-92).
Supervisor, System Analysis and Design Group, AT&T Bell Labs (1979-84).
Low bit-rate video; image compression techniques, advanced television, packet video, VLSI architecture and implemen- tation of signal processing systems for visual applications.
Kenneth Carless SMITH PhD, University of Professor of Electrical Analog VLSI; multiple-valued logic;
t@E Toronto (1960). Engineering (1970- ) array architectures; instrumentation;
Visiting Proiessor and and Department Chair human factors; flexible manufacturing.
Director, COnlpU~eT (1976-81); Professor of
Engineering Program Computer Science
(1970- ) and of Me- chanical Engineerhg (1988- ), University of Toron to.
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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests
Eugene WONG PhD, Princeton Univer- Professor (1969-94) and Stochastic processes; database manage-
IEtm sity (1959). Chairman (1985-89) of ment systems; neural networks.
Professor and Electrical Engineering
Vice-President for and Computer Sciences,
Research and Develop- University of California,
ment; concurrently Berkeley.
Professor of Computer Science
S. Simon WONG PhD, University of
R%7i< California, Berkeley
I Professor (1983).
Assoc. Professor, Design and fabrication of high perfor- Stanford University, mance integrated systems; design and (1988- ). technology issues related to high perfor- Asst Professor, Cornell mance device structures, advanced inter- University (1985-88). connection technology and multi-chip Technical Staff, Hewlett- modules.
Packard (1980-85).
Xiren CA0 T%C Reader
PhD, Harvard Univer- sity (1984).
Research Fellow, Harvard University (1984-86).
Manager and Consult- Discrete event system theory and appli- ant Engineer, Digital cations; computer and communication Equipment Corporation systems; B-ISDN and .4TM; system en- (1986-93). gineering; queueing theory.
Philip C. H. CHAN mE.w
Reader and Acting Department Head
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1978).
IBM Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana (1978).
Principal Engineer, Design Technology (1990-91); Program Manager, Technology Development (1981-90), Intel Corporation.
Electronic design automation; VLSI devices, circuits and systems; CAD/
CAE/CAM technologies; microelec- Lronics.
Justin CHUANG TfzwiB
Reader
PhD, Michigan State University (1983).
Technical Staff, Bellcore Wireless communications, computing (1984-93). and networking; communications system R&D Engineer, General engineering and signal processing; RF Electronics R&D Center technology and engineering; transceiver (1982-84). design and implementation.
Erwei BAI Eam@
Visiting Associate Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1987).
Assoc. Professor, Uni- Control system theory; modeling;
versity of Iowa (1992- ). identification and adaptive controls.
Doctoral and Selected Previous
Postdoctoral Training Positions Research interests
Zexiang LI PhD, University of
f%#i California, Berkeley
Associate Professor (1989).
Ass1 Professor of Com- puter Science, Robotics Research Laboratory, New York University (1090-92).
Robot manipulation; multifingered roho- tic hands; geometric analysis of robotic mechanisms; intelligent control and nonlinear systems; manufacturing.
Tai-Chin LO FE+?%
Associate Professor and Director, Micro- electronics Fabrication Centre
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1962).
General Manager, Bipolarics Inc. (1988-90).
Technical Staff, Hewlett Packard Inc. (1985-88).
Research Scientist, Eastman Kodak Co.
(1982-55).
Integrated circuit technology; electronic materials; microwave bipolar transistors and integrated circuits; semiconductor device modeling for circuit simulation.
Joseph M. SCHMITT 5e:aatz
Associate Professor
PhD, Stanford Univer- sity (1986).
Senior Staff Fellow, Medical instrumentation; optics and Lasers and Modern optoelectronics; medical unaging;
Optics Group, National biomedical sensors; microelectronics.
institutes of Health (1958-94).
Biomedical Engineering Coordinator, Project Hope (1986-88).
Oscar C. AU EiF%
Assistant Professor
PhD, Princeton University (1991).
Research Associate, Princeton University (7991-92).
Video coding/image processing; digital signal processing; speech processing;
wireless communication; telecommuni- cation.
Khaled BEN LETAIEF f%Fz
Assistant Professor
PhD, Purdue University Lecturer, University of Wireless personal and mobile communi- (1990). Melbourne (1990-93). cations; information theory and coding;
spread spectrum systems; optical fiber communications; digital communica- tions.
Aaron W. PhD, University of Research Assistant, Design of high-speed analog integrated California, Los Angeles Integrated Circuits and circuits for fiber optic communication (1993). Systems Laboratory, systems; design of precision analog inte-
Adjunct Assistant UCLA (1988-R’). grated circuits for signal processing;
signal conditioning; data conversion.
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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests
Roger Shu Kwan CHENG
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Assistant Professor
PhD, Princeton Univer- .4sst Professor of Elec- Mobile communications; multi-user sity (1991). trical and Computer communications; information theory;
Engineering, University coding theory.
of Colorado, Boulder (199’1-95).
Kwan Fai CHEUNG BT+w
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Visiting Asst Professor, Wasldlqton (1988). University of Washing- Postdoctoral Research ton (1990-97).
Associate, University of Lecturer, Chinese Uni- Washington (lYR8). versity of Hong Kong
(1989-90).
Lecturer, City Polytech- nic of Hong Kong (1988-89).
Digital image/video compression and - instrumentation; neural computation;
fuzzy set theory; fuzzy logic control sys- tems; digital communications; channel assignment algorithms.
Ho-Chi HUANG s$N@
Assistant Professor
I’hD, University of Washington (1991).
Integrated guided-wave optics; silicon- based opto-electronic technologies; holo- graphic optical elements; spatial light modulators.
Zaheed S. KARIM Ellxs
Assistant Professor
I’hD, University of Southern California (1993).
Research Scientist, University of Southern California (1993).
Optical computing and signal processq;
spatial light modulators; integrated op- tics; optical interconnects; computer- generated holograms; microelectronics packaging.
Wing Hung KI PhD, University of
P?m California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor (1995).
Analysis and design of dimmable elec- tronic ballast; analysis and design of switching mode power converters;
fundamental analog integrated circuit design.
5 Tsz-Mei KO
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:, L s Assistant Professor
PhD, California Insti- tute of Technology (1992).
MTS, Hughes Research Labs (1991-92).
Systems Engineer, AT&T Bell Labs (19%
89).
Information theory; error-correcting codes; communication systems; data and image compression; high-speed net- works.
Doctoral and Selected Previous
Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests
Jack Ka-Chun LAU PhD, Hong Kong Uni-
Ez5t@ versity of Science and
Assistant Professor Technology (1994).
Analog and digital IC design; VLSI circuit design; simulation; integrated magnetic sensors.
Curtis C. LING bi?Gs
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Michigan (1993).
.High-speed integrated circuits and anten- nas; communications circuits and sys- terns; micromachining techniques applied to integrated high-speed systems.
Howard C. LUONG
!TMm Lecturer
PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1994).
Ultra-high-speed and ultra-low-power analog and digital integrated circuits;
high-performance analog-to-digital con- verters; VLSI digital signal processing and computer systems.
Philip K. T. MOK wizailb
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Toronto (1994)
Analog integrated circuits for telecom- munications; power integrated circuits;
VLSI device, technology and circuit design.
Ross D. MURCH Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Canterbury (1990).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dundee University (1990-92).
Research Engineer, New Zealand Telecom (1987-90).
Propagation prediction and antenna design for wireless communications;
inverse scattering for imaging.
Cuong Tan NGUYEN lF?iEE~~
Assistant Professor
PhD, Stanford University (1993).
SO1 devices & technology; wireless com- munication IC integration; sensors and actuators; 3-D surface micromachining;
chemo-mechanical polishing.
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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests
Truong-Thao NGUYEN PhD, Columbia Engineer, Thomson- High resolution analog-to-digital conver.
irnRP University (1993). CSF (1986-89). sion; signal analysis and wavelets; signal
Assistant Professor Research Scientist, and image compression.
Center for Telecom- munications Research, Columbia University (1993).
Vincent M. C. POON i&WE
Assistant Professor
PhD, Chinese Universi- Lecturer in Electronics Advanced microelectronic devices:
ty of Hong Kong (19SY). Engineering, City Poly- physics, technology, modeling, charac- technic of Hong Kong terization, design and fabrication.
(1988-91).
Product Specialist, Carl Zeiss Co. Ltd. (1987-88).
Li QIU h2-L
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Toronto (1990)
Research Associate, Institute for Math- ematics, University of Minnesota (1992-93).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Electrical &
Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo (1992).
General systems and control theory;
robust control; real-time computer control systems; signal processing;
control of tlexible structures; motion control
Bertram Emil SHI PhD, University of
m?w California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor (1994).
Neural networks; speech processing;
image processing; nonlinear circuit and system theory; computer vision.
Johnny K. 0. SIN gF~nt Professor
PhD, University of Toronto (1988).
Senior Member of Power integrated circuits and devices;
Research Staff, Philips integrated sensors; semiconductor Laboratories, New York devices design, fabrication technology, (1988-91). modeling and characterization.
Danny H. K. TSANG tEEI
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1989).
Asst Professor of Mathematics, Statistics
& Computing Science, Dalhousie University (1989-92).
BISDN/ATM networks; congestion con- trols; VBR video modeling; routing in high-speeed networks; broadband appli- cations.
Doctoral and Selected Previous
Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests
Chi-ying TSUI
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rofessor
PhD, University of Southern California (1994).
VLSI design and CAD algorithms for eneqq efficient high-performance microprocessors; power analysis and optimisation of CMOS circuits;
hardware/software co-design for Iow- power embedded systems.
Li-Xin WANG
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Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Southern California (1992).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockwell International Science Centre (1992- 93).
Intelligent robotic systems and control;
fuzzy logic and fuzzy control; neural computing and parallel processing.
Man WONG ZEX
Assistant Professor
PhD, Stanford University (19S8).
Technical Staff, Semi- conductor Process and Design Center, Texas Instruments (1989-92).
Advanced device fabrication technology;
thin-film transistors and general device physics.
Sze-Fong Mark YAU 7% Fe3 iit2
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1991).
Sensor array processing; medical signal and image processing; statistical signal processing and application to inverse problems.
Bing ZENG
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Assistant Professor
PhD, Tampere Univer- Digital signal and image processing;
sity of Technology linear and nonlinear digital filter design;
(1991). statistical and structural approaches to
Postdoctoral Fellow, signal /image processing; neural net-
University of Toronto work; image/video coding and trans-
(1991-93). mission.
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