Co-Director, School of Convergence Science in Space, Security and Telecoms, Imperial College (2025 – now)
Tanaka Chair Professor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computing Depts, Imperial College (2004 – now)

• Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (2002-2004)
• Technology Consultant, AT&T Labs (1996-2002)
• Member and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Labs (1986-1996)

Major Honors and Awards:

• Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2022)
• IEEE Fellow (2001)
• Member of Academia Europaea (2012)
• IET Fellow (2021)
• Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2004-2009)
• Bell Labs Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award (1994)
• IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2022-2023)
• US-UK Science and Technology Stocktake Award (2021)
• IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2021)
• IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award (2022)
• Lanchester Prize Honorable Mention Award (1997)

Current Journal Editorships:

• ACM Computing Survey
• International Journal of Sensor Networks

Current Research Interests:

• Distributed optimisation, machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Communication networks: System designs, protocols and control algorithms
• Wireless communications: Cross-layer optimisation and multi-antenna systems
• Mobile, edge, distributed and quantum computing
• Stochastic models and network performance

For Kin’s recent research papers, visit www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~kkleung/ 

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Communications Technologies
• Distributed Computing
• Applied Mathematics
• Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
• Computer Software

Contact & Links

• https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=IpG80kwAAAAJ&hl=en
• https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/kin.leung