Biography
Victor C. M. Leung is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holder of the TELUS Mobility Research Chair at the University of British Columbia (UBC). His research is in the areas of wireless networks and mobile systems. He has co-authored more than 800 technical papers in archival journals and refereed conference proceedings, several of which had won best-paper awards. Dr. Leung is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is serving or has served on the editorial boards of JCN, IEEE JSAC, Transactions on Computers, Wireless Communications, and Vehicular Technology, Wireless Communications Letters, and several other journals. He has provided leadership to the technical program committees and organizing committees of numerous international conferences. Dr. Leung was the recipient of the 1977 APEBC Gold Medal, NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships from 1977-1981, a 2012 UBC Killam Research Prize, and an IEEE Vancouver Section Centennial Award.
Victor C. M. Leung will chair the International Conference on Smart Urban Mobility Services (SUMS 2015) in Toronto.