Biography

Kin K. Leung received his B.S. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1980, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1982 and 1985, respectively.
He joined AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey in 1986 and worked at its successors, AT&T Labs and Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, until 2004. Since then, he has been the Tanaka Chair Professor in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), and Computing Departments at Imperial College in London. He is the Head of Communications and Signal Processing Group in the EEE Department. His current research focuses on protocols, optimization and modeling of wireless networks and computer systems. He also works on multi-antenna and cross-layer designs for wireless networks.
He received the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award from AT&T Bell Labs (1994), and was a co-recipient of the Lanchester Prize Honorable Mention Award (1997). He was elected an IEEE Fellow (2001), received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merits Award (2004-09) and became a member of Academia Europaea (2012). Along with his co-authors, he received several best paper awards, including the IEEE ICC 2019, ICDCS 2013, and PIMRC 2012. He served as a member (2009-11) and the chairman (2012-15) of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee for ComSoc. He has served as a guest editor and editor for more than 10 IEEE and ACM journals.