Prof. Raymond W. Yeung received the BS, MEng and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1984, 1985, and 1988, respectively. After that, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories for three years. He joined CUHK in 1991 and is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering.

Professor Yeung received a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship in 2000 and was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 2005, a paper on network coding he co-authored with CUHK colleagues received the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, a first for Hong Kong researchers. In 2007 he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.