Tak-Shing Peter Yum
Dean of Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
tsyum@ie.cuhk.edu.hk
www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/yum

Professor Yum was born in Shanghai. He received primary and secondary school education in Hong Kong. He went to Columbia University and was awarded BS, MS, MPh and PhD degrees in 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1978 respectively. He joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in April 1978 working on switching and signaling systems for 2.5 years. Then, he taught at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan for 2 years before joining The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1982. He is now Dean of Engineering and Professor of Information Engineering.

Professor Yum has published widely in Internet research with contributions to routing, buffer management, deadlock handling, message resequencing and multiaccess protocols. He then branched out to work on cellular network, lightwave networks, video distribution networks and 3G networks. His recently interest is in RFID and sensor network technologies and applications.

Professor Yum enjoys doing research with students. Eight of his graduates are now professors at local and overseas universities. He is on the editorial board of 6 international journals on Communications and Information Science, including the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was also formerly an editor on IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Recently, he has also joined the editorial boards of Acta Electronica Sinica, Chinese Journal of Electronics and China Communications. Professor Yum's diverse industrial experience includes Bell Labs, Bellcore (now Telcordia), IBM Research, Motorola Semiconductors and ITRI of Taiwan, SmarTone Communications and Radio-Television (Hong Kong) Ltd. He has also lectured extensively in major universities in China and was appointed Adjunct Professors at South East Unviersity, Zhejiang University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Professor Yum is the founding director of the Information Engineering program and later served as the chairman of the Information Engineering Department. Together with Professor Michael Chang, he founded the Hong Kong SchoolNet in 1993 to provide Internet service to selected secondary schools in Hong Kong. Hong Kong SchoolNet was evolved to Hong Kong EducationCity www.hkedcity.net serving all primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong under the able leadership of Professor P.C. Wong and funding from the Hong Kong SAR Government. Seeing the vast potential of Internet he proposed Internet Engineering as a second undergraduate program in the Information Engineering Department in 1997.

Professor Yum likes reading. He plays bridge and badminton regularly. He is the sponsor of the annual youth bridge camp organized by Bridge House. He is also the Honorary Captain of the Chinese University Badminton Team. He is affiliate with the Shaw College and has been Fellow and Trustee member of the college for many years.