Victor Leung, University of British Columbia
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
Vancouver, British Columbia
vleung@ece.ubc.ca
Office:
(604) 822-2872
(604) 822-6932
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Bio/Research
Victor C. M. Leung received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) 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 UBC on a Natural Scien...
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Bio/Research
Victor C. M. Leung received the B.A.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) 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 UBC on a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship and completed the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1981.
From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Leung was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. (later renamed MPR Teltech Ltd.), specializing in the planning, design and analysis of satellite communication systems. He also held a part-time position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in 1986 and 1987. In 1988, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He returned to UBC as a faculty member in 1989, where he is currently a Professor and the inaugural holder of the TELUS Mobility Industrial Research Chair in Advanced Telecommunications Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WiNMoS) and a member of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at UBC He also holds Guest/Adjunct Professor appointments at Jilin University, Beijing Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Dr. Leung has authored/co-authored more than 600 journal/conference papers and book chapters. His research interests are in the areas of architectural and protocol design and performance analysis for computer and telecommunication networks, with a current focus on wireless networks and mobile systems.
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From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Leung was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. (later renamed MPR Teltech Ltd.), specializing in the planning, design and analysis of satellite communication systems. He also held a part-time position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University in 1986 and 1987. In 1988, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He returned to UBC as a faculty member in 1989, where he is currently a Professor and the inaugural holder of the TELUS Mobility Industrial Research Chair in Advanced Telecommunications Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WiNMoS) and a member of the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems at UBC He also holds Guest/Adjunct Professor appointments at Jilin University, Beijing Jiaotong University, South China University of Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Dr. Leung has authored/co-authored more than 600 journal/conference papers and book chapters. His research interests are in the areas of architectural and protocol design and performance analysis for computer and telecommunication networks, with a current focus on wireless networks and mobile systems.
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