LEUNG, Kwok Wa

Biography

Prof. LEUNG, Kwok Wa was born in Hong Kong. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

In 1994, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and is currently a Chair Professor. He was the Associate Head of the Department from 2017 to 2019. In 2006, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Professor Leung was the Chair of the IEEE AP/MTT Hong Kong Joint Chapter for the years of 2006 and 2007. He was the Technical Program Chair, 2008 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, Hong Kong, the Technical Program Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE TENCON, Hong Kong, and the Finance Chair of PIERS 1997, Hong Kong. His research interests include antenna designs, guided wave theory, computational electromagnetics, and mobile communications. He was an Editor for HKIE Transactions and a Guest Editor of IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation. Prof. Leung was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. He also served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP), which is the most prestigious journal in the field. He was rated as outstanding Associate Editor of the TAP and received Transactions Commendation Certificates twice in 2009 and 2010. From 2013 to 2016, Prof. Leung was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the TAP. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society from 2012 to 2014.

Prof. Leung received the International Union of Radio Science (USRI) Young Scientists Awards in Japan and Russia, in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He received the Departmental Outstanding Teacher Awards in 2005, 2010, and 2011. He aso received the CityU Research Excellence Award 2013. He is the principal recipient of the prestigious First Class Award (Natural Science) of the 2016 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) of the Ministry of Education, China. His students received the 2015 IEEE AP-S Eugene F. Knott Memorial Pre-Doctoral Research Award and best paper awards in international conferences. He is a Fellow of IEEE.