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Chin-Tau
LEA
李 景 濤

PhD in Electrical Engineering
Professor Emeritus
Research Area
Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN)
Research Interests
Broadband wireless networks
Electronic and photonic switching
Network protocols
Very large-scale integration (VLSI)
Routing and call admission control
Profile

PhD, University of Washington

 

Chin-Tau Lea received a B.S and a M.S. degree from the National Taiwan University in 1976 and 1978, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1982, all in electrical engineering. He is now a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology which he joined in 1996. Prior to that,  he was with AT&T Bell Labs from 1982 to 1985 and with the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1985 to 1995.

Dr. Lea's research interests are in the general area of switching and networking. His major research contributions include the invention of Multi-Log2N networks and the associated crosstalk-free photonic switching theory, and the original work on the design of uncertainty tolerant networks. 

 

Multi-disciplinary Theme

Big Data Systems (BDS)

Honors & Awards
Honors and Awards

He received the IEEE Neubauer Paper Award in 1997 and the School of Engineering Teaching Award from HKUST in 1998. Dr. Lea holds ten U.S. patents