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Raymond W. Yeung has been named the recipient of the 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Biography
Raymond W. Yeung received the BS, MEng and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1984, 1985, and 1988, respectively. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1988. Since 1991, he has been with CUHK, where he is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering. A cofounder of the field of network coding, he has been serving as Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding since 2010. He is the author of the books (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002) and (Springer 2008), which have been adopted by over 100 institutions around the world. In spring 2014, he gave on the first MOOC in the world on information theory that reached over 25,000 students. Since then, the MOOC has been offered regularly on Coursera and other platforms. His research interest is in and . He was a consultant in a project of Jet Propulsion Laboratory for salvaging the malfunctioning .
Professor Yeung was a member of the Board of Governors of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society from 1999 to 2001. He has served on the committees of a number of information theory symposiums and workshops. He was the General Chair of the First Workshop on Network, Coding, and Applications (NetCod 2005), a Technical Co-Chair of the 2006 Â鶹´«Ã½AV International Symposium on Information Theory, a Technical Co-Chair of the 2006 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop, Chengdu, and a General Co-Chair of the 2015 Â鶹´«Ã½AV International Symposium on Information Theory.
Professor Yeung also has served on the editorial board of a number of academic journals. He was an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the from 2002 to 2005. He currently serves as an Editor-at-Large of , an Editor of and an Editor of .
He was a recipient of the for 2000/01, the Best Paper Award (Communication Theory) of the 2004 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and System, the 2005 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Paper Award, the from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2007, the 2016 , the 2018 , and the In 2015, he was named an Outstanding Overseas Chinese Information Theorist by the China Information Theory Society.
Professor Yeung was a Changjiang Chair Professor of , an Advisory Professor of , and an Adjunct Professor of the at . He is currently a Guest Professor of . He is a Fellow of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.