Chau Yuen (IEEE Fellow, Highly Cited Researcher)
Associate Professor
School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE)
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, PhD student, or research internship.

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 Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2023), IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (2021), 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 500 research papers at international journals or conferences.

AWARDS

2022 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science in Computer Science

2022 Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University

2021 Rank 357 out of 176,084 in Networking & Telecommunications (0.2%)

2020 Rank 538 out of 183,648 in Networking & Telecommunications (0.29%)

2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award

2023 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize

2022 IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award

2021 SUTD Award for Excellence in Research

2021 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Paper Recognition

2021 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications

2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award for JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

2021 IEEE Fellow for contributions to energy efficient wireless communications

2021 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars in Internet of Things (2011- 2020) by AMiner

2021 AAIA Fellow by Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association

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 I ntegrated 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