Arman Rezaee, PhD candidate: armanr[@]mit.edu
Professor Vincent Chan: chan[@]mit.edu
Yulin Shao, PhD candidate: sy016[@]ie.cuhk.edu.hk
Professor Soung-Chang Liew: soung[@]ie.cuhk.edu.hk
Vincent W. S. Chan, the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chair Professor of EECS, MIT, received his BS(71)/MS(71)/EE(72)/Ph.D.(74) degrees from EECS MIT. From 1974 to 1977, he was an assistant professor, EE, at Cornell University. He joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1977 and had been Head of the Communications and Information Technology Division until becoming the Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (1999–2007) at MIT. He founded and is currently a member of the Claude E. Shannon Communication and Network Group at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics.In July 1983, he initiated the Laser Intersatellite Transmission Experiment Program and in 1997, the GeoLITE Program. In 1989, he led the All-Optical-Network Consortium (1990-1997) formed among MIT, AT&T and the Digital Equipment Corporation. He also served as PI of the Next Generation Internet Consortium, ONRAMP (1998-2003) formed among AT&T, Cabletron, MIT, Nortel and JDS, and a Satellite Networking Research Consortium funded by NSF formed among MIT, Motorola, Teledesic and Globalstar. He has served in many US/non-US government advisory boards/committees and the Board of Governors of the Communication Society including VP of Publications, currently chairing the ComSoc Strategic Planning Committee. He also has participated in several start-ups and was a director of a Fortune-500 network company and chaired its technical advisory board. He is a Member of the Corporation of Draper Laboratory and is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America, and is a member of Eta-Kappa-Nu, Tau-Beta-Pi and Sigma-Xi, and the Fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society of America. Throughout his career, Professor Chan has spent his research focus on communication and networks, particularly on free space and fiber optical communication and networks and satellite communications. His work has led the way to a successful laser communication demonstration in space and early deployment of WDM optical networks. His recent research emphasis is on heterogeneous (satcom, wireless and fiber) network architectures with stringent performance demands including security and resilience.
Professor Soung Chang LIEW received his S.B., S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1984 to 1988, he was at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, where he investigated Fiber-Optic Communications Networks. From March 1988 to July 1993, Professor Liew was at Bellcore (now Telcordia), New Jersey, where he engaged in Broadband Network Research. He is currently Professor and Division Head at the Department of Information Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also currently a Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding at CUHK. He was Department Chairman from 2006 to 2009, and Associate Dean of Engineering from 2004 to 2006. Besides his appointment at CUHK, Professor Liew is Adjunct Professor of Peking University and Southeast University in China.
Professor Liew’s research interests include wireless communications and networking, Internet protocols, multimedia communications, and packet switch design. Besides academic activities, Professor Liew is very active in the industry. He co-founded two technology start-ups that focused on Internet Software. One of the start-ups was co-founded with Professor Charles Kao (Winner of Nobel Prize in Physics, 2009) in the 90s, during the early days of the Internet. Working with a property developer, the company built the first residential intranet in the region (probably the world). Professor Liew was a consultant for the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) from 2001 to 2013, providing technical advice as well as helping to formulate R&D directions and strategies in the areas of Wireless Internetworking, Applications, and Services. Some of the wireless technologies he co-invented at ASTRI are the key components behind commercial products sold around the world.
Professor Liew is currently a member of the Board of Directors of ASTRI and a Technical Chair for the Technical Committee at ASTRI. Professor Liew is also currently a consultant and technology advisor to CocoRoco and Zyetric, two technology start-ups founded by his students.
Professor Liew is a Fellow of IEEE, IET and HKIE. Professor Liew has published over 250 refereed technical papers (mostly IEEE). He is the holder (co-holder) of 15 U.S. patents.