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Pioneer of Network Coding

Prof. Raymond Yeung receives IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal

Prof. Raymond Yeung Wai-ho, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and co-director of the Institute of Network Coding, has received the IEEE 2021 Richard W. Hamming Medal for his fundamental contributions to information theory and pioneering network coding and its applications. It is the first time the award, one of the highest honours in electrical and electronics engineering, has been won by an Asian researcher since its establishment in 1988. It is also the first time that a home-grown research is recognized at this level.

In the late 1990s, Professor Yeung proposed the concept of network coding that went on to revolutionize network communication. In the past, information had been transmitted in a network very much like commodity flow, with the intermediate nodes relaying data packets passively. Simply speaking, with network coding, more information can be transmitted through the network by applying coding to data packets inside the network. In practice, this means people can download data faster, watch video streaming with less delay, and communicate more securely on the Internet.