Biography
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Victor C. M. Leung received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering
from the University of British
Columbia (UBC) in 1977, and was awarded the APEBC Gold Medal as the head of the
graduating class in the Faculty of Applied
Science. He attended graduate school at UBC on a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Postgraduate Scholarship and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering in 1982.
From 1981 to 1987, Dr.
Leung was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Microtel Pacific Research Ltd.
(later renamed MPR Teltech Ltd.), Burnaby, Canada,
where he specialized in the planning, design and analysis of satellite
communication systems. He also held a part-time position as Visiting Assistant
Professor at Simon Fraser University in 1986
and 1987. In 1988, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He returned
to UBC as a faculty member in 1989, where he is currently a Professor and the
inaugural holder of the TELUS Mobility
Industrial Research Chair in Advanced Telecommunications Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He is the Director of the Laboratory for
Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WiNMoS) and
a member of the Institute for Computing,
Information and Cognitive Systems at UBC He also holds or has held
Guest/Adjunct Professor appointments at Jilin
University, Beijing Jiaotong University, South
China University of Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Beijing University of Posts
and Telecommunications and Hefei
University of Technology. Dr. Leung has authored/co-authored more than 1100
papers in archival journals and international conferences, as well as 40 book
chapters. He has also co-authored/co-edited 14 books. His research interests
are in the broad areas of wireless networks and mobile systems.