Wing Omar

周 昌

 

Emeritus Professor

 

BS (Tennessee, 1950)

MS (MIT, 1952)

EngScD (Col., 1959)

FIEEE





Biography

Omar Wing is Professor Emeritus of Information Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, having served as Professor and founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1991 to 1998. He is also Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University, having been a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering there from 1956 to 1993. He served as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering two terms from 1974-78 and 1983-86.

 

He is the author or co-author of 55 journal papers published mostly in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and author or co-author of 97 conference papers presented mostly at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. He has published four textbooks in circuit theory and GaAs circuit design.

 

He supervised the completion of 30 Ph.D. theses in such subjects as graph theory, distributed parameter circuit theory, sparse matrix techniques, and computer aided analysis and design of very large scale integrated circuits.

 

Professional experiences include serving as President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (1978), Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (1975-77), and the General Chairman of the First IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (1968).

 

Industrial experiences comprise four years at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1952 to 1956, where he did research and development work on the design of electric filters for anti-submarine defense and microwave filters for long distance communications. He was a consultant at Bell Laboratories at various times after becoming a faculty member at Columbia University. As consultant, he worked on design automation of very large-scale integrated circuits and modeling of the metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor for high-speed operations.

 

Since 1979, he has been visiting China, giving lectures and short courses on computer aided analysis and design of electronic circuits at some 25 leading universities and research institutes. In 2000, he was visiting professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University where he initiated a new course on RF circuit design. In 2001 and 2002, he was with Fudan University, Shanghai, where he established a research group in RF IC CAD.



Honors & Awards

  • Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
  • IEEE Centennial Medal (1983)
  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Award (1989)
  • IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Jubilee Award (2000)
  • IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000)
  • Great Teacher Award, Columbia University (1973)
  • Outstanding Instructor of the Year Award, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University (1991)
  • Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Jiao Tong University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1962
  • Fulbright Visiting Professor, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1979-80
Research Interests
  • Communication circuits, chaos communications, CAD of RF circuits

Representative Publications

  • Y. L. Jiang and O. Wing, "A note on convergence conditions of waveform relaxation algorithms for nonlinear differential-algebraic equations," Applied Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 36, pp. 281-297, February 2001.
  • Y. L. Jiang, R. M. M. Chen and O. Wing, "Improving convergence performance of relaxation-based transient analysis by matrix splitting in circuit simulation," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - Part I, Vol. 48, pp. 769-780 June 2001.
  • Y. L. Jiang, R. M. M. Chen and O. Wing, "Waveform relaxation of nonlinear second-order differential equations," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - Part I, Vol. 48, pp. 1344-1347, November 2001.
  • Zaimen Chen, Jinmei Lai, Omar Wing, and Junyan Ren, "A lumped, large-signal dynamic model of the MOSFET for RF circuit simulation," Proceedings of the first IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications (St. Petersburg, Russia), pp. 312-15. June 2002.
  • Jian Wang, Jun Tan and Omar Wing, "Theory of cross-coupled oscillator systems for RF quadrature generation," Proceedings of first IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications (St. Petersburg, Russia), pp. 362-65, June 2002.