Prof. Soung Liew
Professor

the Department of Information Engineering

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Soung Liew received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During his time at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, he conducted fundamental research on Fiber-Optic Communications Networks from 1984 to 1988. Following that, he joined Bellcore in New Jersey, where he worked on Broadband Network Research from March 1988 to July 1993. Since 1993, Professor Liew has been a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he has held many leadership positions such as Department Chairman from 2006 to 2009, Associate Dean of Engineering (Research) from 2004 to 2006, and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding from 2014 to the present day. In recognition of his commitment to teaching excellence, Professor Liew received the first CUHK Vice Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award in 2000. Professor Liew’s research interests revolve around wireless networks, Internet protocols, and blockchain, with a current focus on the impact of AI in these fields. His group’s original paper on physical-layer network coding was recognized by Google Scholar as one of the ten classic papers in Computer Networks and Wireless Communications in 2017. Professor Liew is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, HKIE, and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences.