Daniel Ka Chun SO Ph.D., HKUST  B.E. (E&E), University of Auckland Wireless Communication Laboratory Center for Wireless Information Technology Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR Email : danielso@ieee.org Click Here to My Personal Home Page

Biography

Daniel Ka Chun So received the PhD degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong in 2003. He obtained the BEng degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (First Class Honor) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in 1996. 

From 1997 to 1998, he joined the Orion Systems International Limited as software engineer, and was later promoted to senior software engineer. He was a Teaching Assistant in HKUST from 1998 to 2000, where he assisted in various undergraduate and postgraduate courses on communication systems. He is currently a Research Assistant in the EE department.

His research interest is on multiple antenna wireless communication (MIMO) systems, with specific emphasis on space-time codes, V-BLAST, OFDM, expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, channel equalization, channel gain estimation, channel order estimation, turbo equalization, and CDMA.

PhD Thesis

Thesis Title: "MIMO Wireless Communications in Frequency Selective Fading Channels" (Download)
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Roger Shu Kwan Cheng, Associate Professor, HKUST

Publications

• Daniel K. C. So and Roger S. Cheng, "Improved Iterative EM Receiver for Space Time Coded system in Frequency Selective Fading Channel with Channel Gain and Order Estimation," in Proceeding of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Conference VTC Spring 2003, 22-25 April 2003, Jeju Island, South Korea. Download (301k)
  
• Daniel K. C. So and Roger S. Cheng, "Iterative EM-based Receiver for Space Time Coded system in Frequency Selective Fading Channel with Channel Gain and Order Estimation," to appear in Proceeding of IEEE International Symposium on Advances in Wireless Communications, 23-24 September 2002, Vancouver, Canada. Download (59k)
  
• Daniel K. C. So and Roger S. Cheng, "Layered Maximum Likelihood Detection for V-BLAST in Frequency Selective Fading Channels," in Proceeding of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Conference VTC Spring 2002, vol. 1, pp. 135-139, 6-10 May 2002, Birmingham Alabama, USA. Download (111k)
  
• Daniel K. C. So and Roger S. Cheng, "Performance Evaluation of Space-Time Coding over Frequency Selective Fading Channel," in Proceeding of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Conference VTC Spring 2002, vol. 2, pp. 635-639, 6-10 May 2002, Birmingham Alabama, USA. Download (131k)
  
• Daniel K. C. So and Roger S. Cheng, "Detection techniques of V-BLAST in frequency selective fading channels," in Proceeding of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2002, vol. 1, pp. 487-491, 17-21 March 2002, Orlando Florida, USA. Download (110k)

Submitted Journal Papers:

• Daniel K. C. So and Roger S. Cheng, "Layered Maximum Likelihood Detection for MIMO systems in Frequency Selective Fading Channels," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, in review, August 2003. (Download)
  
• Daniel K. C. So and Roger S. Cheng, "Iterative EM Receiver for Space Time Coded system in MIMO Frequency Selective Fading Channel with Channel Gain and Order Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, in review, August 2003. (Download)
  
• Daniel K. C. So and Roger S. Cheng, "Comparison between MLED and OFDM in Space-Time Trellis Code over Frequency Selective Fading Channels," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, in review, August 2003. (Download)
  

Work Experience

Academic Awards

• UGC Research Travel Grant (2003)
  Awarded to paper "Iterative EM Receiver for Space Time Coded system in MIMO Frequency Selective Fading Channel with Channel Gain and Order Estimation" in VTC Spring 2003
  HKUST
• UGC Research Travel Grant (2002)
  Awarded to paper "Detection techniques of V-BLAST in frequency selective fading channels" in WCNC 2002
  HKUST
• Postgraduate Studentship (1998 - Present)
  HKUST
• University Doctoral Fellowship (Offered in 1998)
  University of Auckland, New Zealand

Undergraduate Final Year Project

Topic: "Digital Mobile Radio Channel Modeling" 
Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Sowerby, Associate Professor, University of Auckland

Professional Affiliations

• Student Member, IEEE Communication Society 

Last Updated: 20 August 2003
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