CONFERENCE CHAIR

Prof. Victor C. M. Leung
University of British Columbia, Canada

Biography of the Conference Chair

Victor C. M. Leung received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) in 1977, and was awarded the APEBC Gold Medal as the head of the graduating class in the Faculty of Applied Science. He attended graduate school at U.B.C. on a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship and received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1982.
From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Leung was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. (later renamed MPR Teltech Ltd.), where he contributed to the design of a number of thin-route and mobile satellite communication networks. He also held a part-time visiting faculty position at Simon Fraser University in 1986 and 1987. He began his full-time academic career in 1988, as a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He returned to U.B.C. as a faculty member in 1989, where he is currently a Professor and the inaugural holder of the TELUS Mobility Research Chair in Advanced Telecommunications Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at U.B.C. He also holds Guest/Adjunct Professor appointments at Jilin University and Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Leung has made substantial contributions to the design and evaluations of wireless networks and mobile systems over the past 30 years, and has authored/co-authored more than 460 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings in these areas. He and his co-authors have received several best-paper awards.
Dr. Leung is a registered member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC), Canada. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a voting member of ACM. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the IEEE Transactions on Computers, Computer Communications, the International Journal of Sensor Networks, the Journal of Communications and Networks, and the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems. He has guest-edited several special journal issues, and served on the technical program committee of numerous international conferences. He is a Distiguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He was the TPC Chair of the wireless networks and cognitive radio track of IEEE VTC-fall 2008, and the TPC Vice-chair of IEEE WCNC 2005. He was the General Chair of QShine 2007, and a General Co-Chair of IEEE EUC 2009 and ACM MSWiM 2005. He is the General Chair of AdhocNets 2010, and a General Co-Chair of IEEE MobiWorld 2010, IEEE CWCN 2010, BodyNets 2010.