Professor Soung Chang Liew received his S.B., S.M., E.E., and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From March 1988 to July 1993, he was at Bellcore (now Telcordia), New Jersey, where he engaged in Broadband Network Research. He has been a Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), since 1993. He is currently also a Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding at CUHK. Prof. Liew's research group won the best paper awards in IEEE MASS 2004 and IEEE WLN 2004. Separately, TCP Veno, a version of TCP to improve its performance over wireless networks proposed by Prof. Liew's research group, has been incorporated into releases of Linux OS. In addition, Prof. Liew initiated and built the first inter-university ATM network testbed in Hong Kong in 1993. More recently, Prof. Liew's research group pioneered the conceptualization and prototyping of Physical-layer Network Coding, a new paradigm for communications and networking. Prof. Liew is the holder of ten U.S. patents and a Fellow of IEEE, IET and HKIE. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks. He is the recipient of the first Vice-Chancellor Exemplary Teaching Award in 2000 and the Research Excellence Award in 2013 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
