Cheung Kwok-Wai

張 國 偉

 

Professor

 

BSc (Eng) (HKU), MS (Yale), PhD (Caltech)

SMIEEE

 

Tel: (852) 2609-8348

Fax: (852) 2603-5032

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Biography

Professor K. W. Cheung joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Dec.1992. From 1996 – 2001, he served as the founding Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology with a one-time University grant of $24M. The mission of the Centre is to facilitate the growth of the local high tech industry and to spin off new technology startups from the University. A number of CUHK technology startups have been spun off from the Centre, including Wisers Information Limited and Dinastech Limited, receiving over $10M USD venture capital funding. To facilitate the technology transfer from the University, he proposed the formation of the Information Networking Laboratories Ltd. (INL) as a wholly owned subsidiary of the CUHK Foundation. He served as the founding Managing Director of INL from 1997 to 2001. The annual profit of INL reached $4M HKD when he retired from both INL limited and CINTEC because of health concern.

 

From 1987 to 1992 he worked for Telcordia Technologies (formerly the Bell Communications Research) in New Jersey, USA, and had participated in many research areas in broadband communications including network protocols, local distribution networks, optical networks, WDM technologies and devices. He is best known for his research contributions in all optical network and wavelength routing network, and in advancing the wavelength filtering technologies. He has jointly authored over a hundred journal and conference papers (with over six hundred SCI hits) , and holds five U.S. Patents with many others pending.



Honors & Awards

  • IEE Electronics Letters Premium 1992
Research Interests
  • Lightwave Networks and Technologies
  • Foundations of Computing
Subject Taught


  • Lightwave Networks
  • Optical Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Microprocessor and Computer Systems
  • Microprocessor Design Laboratory
  • Information Engineering Laboratory
  • Digital Logic and Systems
  • Digital System Design Laboratory
  • Principles of Communication Systems
  • Advanced Engineering Mathematics
Recent Projects


  • Integrated Communications Laboratory [as PI], 1/6/98 – 31/5/2002, $14.8M (ITF + others)
  • Open Component Foundation [as co-PI], 1/10/99 - 30/9/2002, $3.7M (ITF)
  • The Development of Mobile Computing and Connectivity Technologies [as co-PI], 1/6/99 - 31/5/2001, $5.0M (ITF)
  • Photonic Packaging Laboratory [as co-PI], 1/6/01 - 31/5/04, $13M (ITF + others)
Representative Publications

  • M.K.S.Ho and K.W.Cheung, "Capacity Planning for Fault-Tolerant All-Optical Network," SPIE vol.4909, pp.184 195, 2002.
  • K.W.Ko and K.W.Cheung, "A Local Map Based (LMB) Self-Healing Scheme for Arbitrary Topology Networks, " Globecom'97, pp.1393-1397, 1997.
  • C. Su, L.K. Chen, and K.W. Cheung, "Theory of Burst-Mode Receiver and Its Applications in Optical Multiaccess Network," IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technol., 15, pp.590-606, Apr. 1997.
  • C.S.Qin, G.C.Huang, K.T.Chan, and K.W. Cheung, "Low Drive Power, Side-Lobe Free Acousto-Optic Tunable Filters/ Switches," Electron. Lett., 31, pp.1237- 1238, 1995.