Raymond W. Yeung (Chinese: 楊偉豪; pinyin: Yáng Wěiháo; born June, 1962) is an information theorist and the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he serves as Co-Director of Institute of Network Coding.
Raymond W. Yeung | |
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楊偉豪 | |
| Born | YEUNG Wai Ho June, 1962 |
| Education | Wah Yan College, Kowloon Cornell University |
| Known for | Information Inequalities Network Coding |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Information Theory Network Coding |
| Institutions | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Doctoral advisor | Toby Berger |
Biography
editYeung was born in Hong Kong. He attended Wah Yan College, Kowloon for secondary school education. Then he went to the United States to study at Cornell University, where he obtained his BS, MEng, and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1984, 1985, and 1988, respectively.
In 1988, he joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel. Since 1991, he has been with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and Co-Director of Institute of Network Coding.
Yeung’s research interests are in information theory, network coding, and probability theory. His pioneering contributions to network coding laid the groundwork for the field. He is also known for his works on information inequalities. Together with Zhen Zhang, he discovered the first unconstrained non-Shannon-type inequality, often referred to as the Zhang-Yeung inequality, that revealed the incompleteness of the previously known constraints on the entropy function. He also pioneered the machine-proving of entropy inequalities.
Yeung has published two textbooks on information theory and network coding (2002, 2008) that have been adopted by over 100 universities. His MOOC on information theory, first offered on Coursera in 2014, has reached over 60,000 students to date.
Awards
edit- 2001: Croucher Senior Research Fellowship [1]
- 2003: IEEE Fellow for contributions to network coding theory.[2]
- 2005: IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award [3]
- 2007: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award [4]
- 2016: IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
- 2018: ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award [5]
- 2021: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
- 2022: Claude E. Shannon Award
- 2022: National Academy of Inventors
Bibliography
editBooks
editA First Course in Information Theory, (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002) [6]
Network Coding Theory, (now Publishers, 2005) – with S.-Y. R. Li, N. Cai, and Z. Zhang [7] [8]
Information Theory and Network Coding, (Springer, 2008) [9]
BATS Codes: Theory and Practice, (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2017) - with S. Yang [10]
Journal Publications
edit1991: "A new outlook on Shannon's information measures," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory
1994: "Matrix product-form solutions for Markov chains with a tree structure," Advances in Applied Probability - with B. Sengupta
1997: "A framework for linear information inequalities," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory
1998: "On characterization of entropy functions via information inequalities," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory – with Z. Zhang
2000: "Network information flow," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory – with R. Ahlswede, N. Cai, and S.-Y. R. Li
2002: “On a relation between information inequalities and group theory,” IEEE Trans. on Information Theory – with T. H. Chan
2003: "Linear network coding," IEEE Trans. Information Theory – with S.-Y. R. Li and N. Cai
2006: "Network error correction, Part I & Part II," Communications in Information and Systems - with N. Cai
2011: "Secure network coding on a wiretap network," IEEE Trans. Information Theory - with N. Cai
2014: "Batched sparse code," IEEE Trans. Information Theory - with S. Yang
2020: "Proving and disproving information inequalities," IEEE Trans. Information Theory - with S.-W. Ho, L. Ling, and C. W. Tan
Information Theory [11]
Software
edit1996: Information Theoretic Inequality Prover (ITIP)- with Y.-O. Yan [12]
2020: AITIP - with S.-W. Ho, L. Ling, C. W. Tan [13]
References
edit- ^ "Croucher Senior Research Fellowship".
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 2003 | IEEE Communications Society".
- ^ "IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award".
- ^ "Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award".
- ^ "ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award".
- ^ A First Course in Information Theory. Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage. 2002. doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8608-5. ISBN 978-1-4613-4645-6.
- ^ "Network Coding Theory, Part I".
- ^ "Network Coding Theory, Part II".
- ^ Information Theory and Network Coding. 2008. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-79234-7. ISBN 978-0-387-79233-0.
- ^ Yang, Shenghao; Yeung, Raymond W. (2017). "BATS Codes: Theory and Practice". Synthesis Lectures on Communication Networks. 10 (2): 1–226. doi:10.2200/S00794ED1V01Y201708CNT019.
- ^ "MOOC on Information Theory".
- ^ "ITIP".
- ^ "AITIP".