Electronic Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Prof CHING, Pak Chung 程伯中

Prof CHING, Pak Chung 程伯中

Choh-Ming Li Research Professor of Electronic Engineering
Director, Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering
MSc Programme Director
B.Eng. (Hons.), Ph.D., D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) (Liverpool), FIET, FHKIE, FHKEng., FIEEE
homepage Rm 327, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building phone Tel: +852 3943 8275 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research Interests:

Adaptive Digital Signal Processing, Time Delay Estimation and Target Localization, Blind Signal Estimation and Separation, Automatic Speech Recognition, Speaker Identification/Verification and Speech Synthesis, and Advanced Signal Processing techniques for Wireless Communications, and Cognitive and Cooperative Communications
Research Highlights

 

hyperlink http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/~pcching/

 

 

Resume of Career

Pak-chung Ching received the B. Eng. (1st Class Honors) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Liverpool, UK, in 1977 and 1981 respectively. From 1981 to 1982, he was Research Officer at the University of Bath, UK. In 1982, Prof. Ching returned to Hong Kong and joined the then Hong Kong Polytechnic as a lecturer. Since 1984, he has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where he is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering. He was Department Chairman from 1995 to 1997, Dean of Engineering from 1997 to 2003 and Head of Shaw College from 2004 to 2008. He became Director of the Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering in 2004. From 2006 till end of 2014, Prof Ching was appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President of CUHK. Between 2013 to 2014, Prof. Ching also took up the Directorship of the CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute. Prof. Ching is very active in promoting professional activities, both in Hong Kong and overseas. He was a council member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), past chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Section, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 1997 to 2000 and IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2001 to 2003. He was also a member of the Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 1996 to 2004. He was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the HKIE Transactions between 2001 and 2004. He has been an Honorary Member of the editorial committee for Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing since 2000. Prof. Ching has been instrumental in organizing many international conferences in Hong Kong including the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems where he was the Vice-Chairman. He also served as Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2003 and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Prof Ching was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Award in 2000 and the HKIE Hall of Fame in 2010. In addition, Prof. Ching also plays an active role in community services. He was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star (SBS) and the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the HKSAR Government in 2017 and 2010, respectively, in recognition of his long and distinguished public and community services. He is presently Chairman of the Veterinary Surgeons Board of Hong Kong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited, Council Member of the Shaw Prize Foundation, as well as a Member of the Museum Advisory Committee (MAC) and the Chairperson of its Science Sub-committee. He is elected as President of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES) in 2018. He was the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification from 2009 to 2015, Member of the Steering/ Advisory Committee on Innovation and Technology from 2010 to 2017, Board Member of the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Ltd (ASTRI) from 2012 to 2018 and Director of the Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies from 2006 to 2014. He was also Member of The Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council from 2012 to 2013, Panel Member of the Research Grant Council from 2005 to 2010, Member of the Governing Council of the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency from 2005 to 2009, Member of the Copyright Tribunal from 2003 to 2009, Member of Electrical Safety Advisory Committee of the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department from 2002 to 2008, Member of the Consumer Council from 2001 to 2006 and Chairman of the Hong Kong Accreditation Advisory Board from 2000 to 2005. Prof. Ching is also a Guest Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Southeast University and Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Current Research Interests

Adaptive Digital Signal Processing, Time Delay Estimation and Target Localization, Blind Signal Estimation and Separation, Automatic Speech Recognition, Speaker Identification/Verification and Speech Synthesis, and Advanced Signal Processing techniques for Wireless Communications, and Cognitive and Cooperative Communications

Highlights of Recent Achievements

  • Pioneer in developing efficient automatic speech recognition algorithms for code-mixing utterances.
  • Developing efficient power control strategy for multiple-spectrum-sharing networks.
  • Designing advanced space time code for asynchronous cooperative communications.

Taught Courses

  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Principles of Communication Systems
  • Introduction to Engineering Design
  • Technology, Society and Engineering Practice

Honors and Awards

  • Doctor of Engineering (honoris causa), University of Liverpool, 2012.
  • Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, 2011.
  • Fellow, IEEE, 2011.
  • Bronze Bauhinia Star, HKSAR Government, 2010.
  • HKIE Hall of Fame 2010.
  • IEEE Third Millennium Award, 2000.
  • Fellow, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, 1995.
  • Fellow, The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1995.

External Service in Recent 3 Years

  • Court Member, The Open University of Hong Kong (2013-11-01 to 2016-10-31).
  • Chairman, Veterinary Surgeons Board of Hong Kong (2013-09-15 to 2016-09-14).
  • Member, The Shaw Prize Foundation Council (2013-05-01 to 2015-04-30).
  • Director, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Ltd (2012-03-01 to 2016-02-29).
  • Member, Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council (2012-03-01 to 2013-02-28).
  • Director, Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited (NAMI) (2010-11-26 to Present).
  • Advisory Board Member, Microsoft Research Connections, USA (2010-09-30 to 2012-06-30).
  • Council Member, The Open University of Hong Kong (2010-06-20 to 2012-06-19).
  • Member, Steering Committee on Innovation and Technology (2010-01-18 to 2016-01-31).
  • Chairman, Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification (2009-09-17 to 2015-12-31).
  • Director, HK R&D Ctr for Logistics & Supply Chain Mgt Enabling Technologies (LSCM) (2006-04-18 to Present).

Publications for the Past 3 Years

Journal Publications

  1. Y. Liu, W. Zhang, S. C. Liew, and P. C. Ching, “Bounded delay-tolerant space-time codes for distributed antenna systems,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 8, August 2014, pp. 4644-4655.

  2. Chao Zhai; Wei Zhang and P.C. Ching. "Cooperative Spectrum Sharing Based on Two-Path Successive Relaying". IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 61, No. 6, JUNE 2013, pp. 2260-2270.

  3. Ye Yang; Qiang Li; Wing-Kin Ma; Jianhua Ge and P.C. Ching. "Cooperative Secure Beamforming for AF Relay Networks With Multiple Eavesdroppers". IEEE Signal Processing Letters vol.20 no.1, January 2013, pp.35-38.

  4. Ye Yang, Tsung-Hui Chang, Wing-Kin Ma, Jianhua Ge, Chong-Yung Chi and P.C. Ching, 'Noncoherent Bit-Interleaved Coded OSTBC-OFDM with Maximum Spatial-Frequency Diversity', IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, No. 9, Sep. 2012, pp. 3335-3347.

  5. Feng Tian, Wei Zhang, Wing-Kin Ma, P.C. Ching and Vincent H. Poor, 'An Effective Distributed Space-time Code for Two-path Successive Relay Network', IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 59, No. 8, Aug. 2011, pp. 2254-2263.

  6. Ning Wang and P.C. Ching, Nengheng Zheng, Tan Lee, 'Robust Speaker Recognition Using Denoised Vocal Source and Vocal Tract Features', IEEE Trans. On Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 196-205.

Conference Publications

  1. Ran Cai; N. Timothy Davidson and P.C. Ching. "Tradeoff Analysis of Partial Zero-Forcing Beamforming in Large Random Spectrum Sharing Netwroks". Paper presented in the IEEE 15th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), organized by IEEE Signal Processing Soceity, 5 pgs. Toronto, Canada, 2014.06.22.

  2. Ran Cai; Wei Zhang; P.C. Ching; N. Timothy Davidson and Jian-kang Zhang. "Performance of Partial Zero-forcing Beamforming in Large Random Spectrum Sharing Networks". Paper presented in the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, organized by IEEE Signal Processing Society , 5 pgs. Florence, Italy, 2014.05.09.

  3. Yun Liu; Wei Zhang; Soung Chang Liew and P.C. Ching. "Achieving Full-Diversity and Fast Maximum Likelihood Decoding in Asynchronous Analog Network Coding". Paper presented in the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), organized by IEEE Signal Processing Society, 5 pgs. Florence, Italy, 2014.05.09.

  4. Lu Yang; Wei Zhang; Nengheng Zheng and P.C. Ching. "Opportunistic User Scheduling in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks". Paper presented in the the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), organized by IEEE Signal Processing Society, 5 pgs. Florence, Italy, 2014.05.04.

  5. Yun Liu; Wei Zhang and P.C. Ching. "Full-Diversity Distributed Space-Time Codes with An Efficient ML Decoder for Asynchronous Cooperative Communications". Paper presented in the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), organized by IEEE Signal Processing Society, 5 pgs. Vancouver, Canada, 2013.05.29.

  6. Yalin Zhang; P.C. Ching and Qinyu Zhang. "Hybrid Spectrum Sharing with Imperfect Sensing in Fading Channels". Paper presented in the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), organized by IEEE Signal Processing Society, p.5318-5322. Vancouver, Canada, 2013.05.26. <P134471>

  7. Ran Cai; Jian-kang Zhang; N. Timothy Davidson; Max Kon Wong and P.C. Ching. "Power Control for Multiple Spectrum-Sharing Networks under Random Geometric Topologies". Paper presented in the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, organized by IEEE Signal Processing Society , 5 pgs. Vancouver, Canada, 2013.05.26.

  8. Ye Yang; Tsung-hui Chang; Jianhua Ge; Wing-Kin Ma and P.C. Ching. "Achieving Full Cooperative and Frequency Diversity in Bit-interleaved Coed Two-way Relay Networks". Paper presented in the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, organized by IEEE Communications Society, p.3283-3288. Shanghai, China, 2013.04.07.

  9. Chao Zhai; Wei Zhang and P.C. Ching. "Spectrum Leasing Based on Bandwidth Efficient Relaying in Cognitive Radio Networks". Paper presented in the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), organized by IEEE Communications Society, p.4927-4932. California, USA, 2012.12.03.

  10. Ran Cai, Wei Zhang and P.C. Ching, 'Spectrum Sharing between Random Geometric Networks', ICASSP 2012 - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , Mar. 25-30, 2012, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 3137-3140.

  11. Chao Zhai, Wei Zhang and P.C. Ching, 'Spectrum Sharing based on Two-Path Successive Relaying', ICASSP 2012 - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Mar. 25-30, 2012, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 2909-2912.

  12. Tan Lee and P.C. Ching, 'Dealing with Imperfections in Human Speech Communication with Advanced Speech Processing Techniques', International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, Jun. 2011, Lasi, Romania, pp. 325-330.

  13. Long Shi, Wei Zhang and P.C. Ching, 'Single-Symbol Decodable Distributed STBC for Two-Path Successive Relay Networks', ICASSP 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 22, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.

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