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Chau Yuen (IEEE Fellow, Highly Cited Researcher)
Provost’s Chair in Wireless Communications
Assistant Dean (International Engagement), Graduate College (GC)
Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE)
Deputy Director, Centre for Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Email: chau.yuen@ntu.edu.sg
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=7VLbLUMAAAAJ&hl=en

Feel free to contact me for research fellow, research assistant, or PhD positions.

 

BIOGRAPHY

Chau Yuen (S02-M06-SM12-F21) received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Murray Hill, in 2005, and a Visiting Assistant Professor with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2008. From 2006 to 2010, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. From 2010 to 2023, he was with the Engineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design. Since 2023, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University.

Dr. Yuen received IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2024), IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award (2024), IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2023), IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (2021), IEEE APB Outstanding Paper Award (2023), and EURASIP Best Paper Award for JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING (2021). He was a recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal, the Institution of Electrical Engineers Book Prize, the Institute of Engineering of Singapore Gold Medal, the Merck Sharp and Dohme Gold Medal, and twice a recipient of the Hewlett Packard Prize. He received the IEEE Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2012 and IEEE VTS Singapore Chapter Outstanding Service Award on 2019.

Dr Yuen current serves as an Editor-in-Chief for Springer Nature Computer Science, Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, IEEE SYSTEM JOURNAL, and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, where he was awarded as IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award and Top Associate Editor for TVT from 2009 to 2015. He also served as the guest editor for several special issues, including IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, IEEE VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, and ELSEVIER APPLIED ENERGY.

He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, and also a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science. He has 3 US patents and published over 400 research papers at international journals.

 

AWARDS

  • From 2022 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science in Computer Science
  • 2024 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize
  • 2024 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award
  • 2023 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize
  • 2023 IEEE APB Outstanding Paper Award
  • 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award
  • 2023 IEEE ICCT Best Paper Award
  • 2022 IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award
  • 2021 SUTD Award for Excellence in Research
  • 2021 IEEE Fellow for contributions to energy efficient wireless communications
  • 2021 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications
  • 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award for JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING
  • 2021 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Paper Recognition
  • 2021 AAIA Fellow by Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
  • From 2021 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars in Internet of Things (2011- 2020) by AMiner
  • From 2020 Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in “Networking & Telecommunications”
  • 2020 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Distinguished Lecturer (DL)
  • 2019 IEEE VTS Singapore Chapter Outstanding Service Award
  • 2017 Excellent Guest Editor, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy
  • 2015 QShine Best Paper Award
  • 2009 – 2015 Top Editor for IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology
  • 2013 IEEE WCSP Best Paper Awards
  • 2013 WUN CogCom Best Paper Awards on Resource Management and Assignment & Network and Network Management
  • 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, IEEE ComSoc
  • 2012 Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters
  • 2012 Early Adopter Award, NSF-TCPP on Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • 2011 IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award, IBM
  • 2008 Scientist-Entrepreneur Award, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)
  • 2006 Achiever of the Year (Research Category) for significant scientific contributions to the research in MIMO systems,
  • Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
  • 2001 Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal
  • 2001 Institute of Engineering of Singapore (IES) Gold Medal
  • 2000 – 2001 Hewlett Packard (HP) Book Prize
  • 2001 Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Book Prize
  • 2001 Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) Gold Medal Award

 

SELECTED EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

  • Editor-in-Chieft for Springer Nature Computer Science (since 2023)
  • Editor for IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology (since 2007)
  • Associate Editor for IEEE System Journal (since 2021)
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (since 2022)
  • Associate Editor for IET Smart Grid (since 2017)
  • Associate Editor for Springer Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (since 2016)
  • Editor for IEEE Trans. Communications (2017 – 2022)
  • Associate Editor for KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (2013 – 2020)
  • Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, special issue on Intelligent Surfaces for 5G and Beyond, 2021.
  • Lead Guest Editor for Elsevier Applied Energy, special issue on Energy Sharing in the Peer-to-Peer Network – Moving towards Real Implementation, 2020.
  • Lead Guest Editor for IEEE TCCN, special issue on Intelligent Surfaces for Smart Wireless Communications, 2020.
  • Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, special issue on Energy Harvesting Communications, 2015.
  • Guest Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal, special issue on Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G IoE, 2023.
  • Guest Editor for IEEE IoT Magazine, special issue on Pervasive, Efficient and Smart Signal Processing for IoT, 2022.
  • Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications, special issue on Artificial Intelligence Enabled Internet of UAVs Communications, 2021.
  • Guest Editor for IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, special issue on Backscatter and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Wireless Communications in 6G, 2022.
  • Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, special issue on Emerging Security Technologies for 6G, 2020.
  • Guest Editor for China Communications, special issue on AI-Empowered Millimeter Wave Communication and Networking, 2020.
  • Guest Editor for IEEE JSAC, special issue on Wireless Networks Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, 2019.

 

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Lead Chair for Signal Processing Techniques in 5G Communication Systems under IEEE Technical Committee on Signal Processing and Communications Electronics (SPCE)
  • Lead Chair for Energy Harvesting Communications Special Interest Group under IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing (TCGCC)
  • IEEE Senior Member (since 2012)
  • Vice Chair (2016) & Technical Committee Member (2012 – 2015) for Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) – Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN)
  • TPC Chair for IEEE ICCS 2018.
  • Local Arrangement Chair for IEEE Globecom 2017.
  • Treasurer & Committee Member for IEEE Vehicular Society – Singapore Chapter (since 2013)
  • Chief Editor for Working Group 6 Task Force 1 TVWS.
  • Lead for Singapore Information Technology Standards Committee on Sensor Network Study Group