Professor Lawrence Yeung received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1992 and 1995, respectively.  He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong in July 2000, where he is currently an Associate Professor.  Before that, he has spent five years in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor.  During the summer of 1993, Professor Yeung served with the Performance Analysis Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Holmdel, USA, as a Member of Technical Staff-I.  Professor Yeung's research interests include personal and cellular mobile systems, lightwave networks, broadband packet switches, high-speed networking and the next generation Internet.

Professor Yeung is a regular technical reviewer for many international journals and conferences, and a regular reviewer of CERG grant applications.  He has served on technical committees of several international conferences.  Most recently, he was the representative of IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC) in the technical committee of International conference on Communications 2000 (ICC 2000), New Orleans, USA.  Professor Yeung has published over 70 papers in international journals and conferences.  He was ranked First Place in 1993 IEEE (HK) Student Paper Contest (postgraduate).  He has been listed in Marquis Who’' Who in the World and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.  He was also recognized as an Outstanding Teacher in the academic year 1998-99, at the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong.