Short Biography
Professor Wai Ho MOW received his BSc (Electronics) in 1989, MPhil and PhD (Information Engineering) in 1991 and 1993 respectively, all from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). In 1994, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Department of Information Engineering, CUHK. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada, the Munich University of Technology (TUM) in Germany, and the Kyoto University in Japan in 1995, 1996 and early 2000 respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he was an assistant professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in March 2000. He has been an Adjunct Professor of the Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China since 2003. In spite of the relatively short PhD study period, he received the Best PhD Thesis in Engineering Award and the Young Scholar Dissertation Award. He was also the recipient of the Croucher Research Fellowship (HK), the Humboldt Research Fellowship (Germany), the Telecommunications Advancement Research Fellowship (Japan), the Tan Chin Tuan Academic Exchange Fellowship (Singapore), the Wong Kuan Cheng Education Foundation Academic Exchange Award (China), the Foreign Expert Bureau Fellowship (China) and the Royal Academy of Engineering Award for Short Research Exchanges with China and India (UK).
His research interests are in the areas of wireless communications, coding and information theory. He pioneered the lattice approach to signal detection problems (such as sphere decoding and complex lattice reduction-aided detection) and unified all known constructions of perfect (or CAZAC) root-of-unity sequences (widely used as preambles and radar signals). Since Jun 2002, he has been the principal investigator of over 10 funded research projects. Citations of his research contributions can be found in several prominent publications, including Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, Springer, http://eom.springer.de/C/c110430.htm; Handbook of Coding Theory, Elsevier Press, 1998, Chapter 21; The Mobile Communications Handbook, IEEE/CRC Press, 2nd Edition, 1999, Section 8.5; The Communications Handbook, IEEE/CRC Press, 2nd Edition, 2002, Section 8.5. He has published 1 book, and co-authored over 20 filed patent applications and over 100 technical publications, among which he is the sole author of over 40. He co-authored a paper that received the ISITA2002 Paper Award for Young Researchers and supervised one student who won the first prize in the IEEE HK Section Postgraduate Paper Contest as well as two undergraduate project teams who won the first-runner up prizes in the IEE HK YMS Project Competitions in 2002 and 2003 respectively.
He was the chair of the Hong Kong Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2005. He was a technical program co-chair of the First Hong Kong Information Theory Colloquium in 2000, the IEEE Information Theory Workshop in 2003, the First IEEE Taiwan/Hong Kong Joint Workshop on Information Theory and Communications in 2005, and the Second International Workshop on Sequence Design and its Applications in Communications (IWSDA'05), and was also the Chair of the Communication Theory Symposium of the International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS'05 & '04). He served the technical program committees of various international conferences such as Globecom, ICC, ISITA, ITW, VTC and WCNC. He was a guest (associate) editor for three special issues of the IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals. He was an industrial consultant for Huawei (2006-09), ZTE (2005), and Magnotech Ltd (2002-04). He was a member of the Radio Spectrum Advisory Committee, Office of the Telecommunications Authority, the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government from 2003 to 2008. He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 1999. His mathematical genealogy information is available here.
Courses Taught:
ELEC 314: Digital Communications (Fall 2000, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008)
ELEC 332: Information Theory and Error-Correcting Codes (½ Spring 2000, Fall 2001, Spring 2004, Spring 2007)
ELEC 210: Probability and Random Processes in Engineering (Spring 2002, Summer 2002)
ELEC 548: Coding and Information Theory (Spring 2001, Spring 2006, Spring 2008)
Administrative Duties:
CPEG Committee Member (2006-now)
ECE China Task Force (2006-now)
EEE Undergraduate Studies Committee Member (2001-2006)
EEE Final Year Project Coordinator (2000-04)
EEE Undergraduate Studies Coordinator 2002/03
Design Competition Chairman of the Engineering Summer Camp '2002
High Tech Entrepreneur Program (HTEP) EEE Coordinator (2001-03)
Publications:
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Journal Papers:
K.-L. Du, C.-S. Leung, Wai Ho Mow, and M.N.S. Swamy, "Perceptron: Learning, Generalization, Model Selection and Fault Tolerance," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, June 2009.
K.-L. Du and Wai Ho Mow, "Affordable Cyclostationarity-Based Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio with Smart Antennas," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Oct 2009, under second review.
Fredrik Rusek, Edward K. Au, John B. Anderson and Wai Ho Mow, "Minimum distance analysis of multihead multitrack recording channels", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Nov 2009, under second review.
Zheng Ma, Pingzhi Fan, Wai Ho Mow and Qingchun Chen, "A Joint Early Detection-Early Stopping Scheme for Short-Frame Turbo Decoding", submitted to Archiv für Elekronik und Übertragungstechnik (AEÜ), August 2009, under second review.
Ling Cong, Wai Ho Mow, and Lu Gan, "Dual-Basis Ordering and Partial Lattice Reduction for MIMO Detection", IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Managing Complexity in Multiuser MIMO Systems, Vol.3, No.6, December 2009.
Ying Hung Gan, Cong Ling and Wai Ho Mow, "Complex Lattice Reduction Algorithm for Low-Complexity MIMO Detection", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol.57, No.7, July 2009, pp.2701-2710.
W.H. Mow, "Recursive Constructions of Detecting Matrices for Multiuser Coding: a Unifying Approach", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.55, no.1, Jan 2009, pp.93-98.
Xiaohu Tang and Wai Ho Mow, "A New General Construction of Zero-Correlation-Zone Sequences Based on Interleaved Perfect Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.54, no.12, December 2008, pp. 5729-5734.
Tao Li, Wai Ho Mow, and Manhung Siu, "A Joint Approach to Erasure Marking and Viterbi Decoding for Unknown Impulsive Noise Channels", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.7, no. 9, September 2008, pp. 3407-3416.
Edward K. Au and Wai Ho Mow, "On Accelerating the Computation of Weight Enumerators for Convolutional Codes", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 6, Jun 2008, pp.2009-2014.
Ying Hung Gan and Wai Ho Mow, "Novel Joint Sorting and Lattice Reduction for Delay-Constrained LLL-reduction-aided MIMO Detection", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, 2008, pp. 194-197.
Edward K. S. Au, Shi Jin, Matthew R. McKay, Wai Ho Mow, Xiqi Gao, and Iain B. Collings, "Analytical Performance of MIMO-SVD Systems in Ricean Fading Channels with Channel Estimation Error and Feedback Delay", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7 no. 4, April 2008, pp. 1315-1325.
Tao Li, Wai Ho Mow and Manhung Siu, "Joint Erasure Marking and List Viterbi Algorithm for Decoding in Unknown Non-Gaussian Noise", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.7, No.3, March 2008, pp. 787-792.
Qiang Li, Wai Ho Mow, Zhongpei Zhang and Shaoqian Li, "Improved Turbo Equalization Schemes Robust to SNR Estimation Errors," IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E90-B, No. 6, Jun 2007, pp. 1454-1459.
Peter W. C. Chan, Ernest S. Lo, Vincent K. N. Lau, Roger S. Cheng, K. B. Letaief, Ross D. Murch, and Wai Ho Mow, "Performance Comparison of Downlink Multiuser MIMO-OFDMA and MIMO-MC-CDMA with Transmit Side Information – Multi-Cell Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 6, June 2007, pp.2193-2203.
Edward K. S. Au, Cheng Wang, S. Sfar, Ross D. Murch, Wai Ho Mow, Vincent K. N. Lau, Roger S. Cheng and Khaled Ben Letaief, "Error Probability for MIMO Zero-Forcing Receiver with Adaptive Power Allocation in the Presence of Imperfect Channel State Information", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 4, April 2007, pp.1523-1529.
Tao Li, Wai Ho Mow, Vincent K. N. Lau, Manhung Siu, Roger S. Cheng, Ross D. Murch,, "Robust Joint Interference Detection and Decoding for OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Systems with Unknown Interference", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 25, No. 3, April 2007, pp.566-575.
Ernest S. Lo, Peter W. C. Chan, Vincent K. N. Lau, Roger S. Cheng, K. B. Letaief, Ross D. Murch, and Wai Ho Mow, "Adaptive Resource Allocation and Capacity Comparison of Downlink Multiuser MIMO-MC-CDMA and MIMO-OFDMA", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 3, March 2007, pp. 1083-1093.
Cheng Wang, Edward K. S. Au, Ross D. Murch, Wai Ho Mow, Roger S. Cheng, Vincent K. N. Lau, "On Performance of the MIMO Zero-Forcing Receiver in the Presence of Channel Estimation Error", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 3, March 2007, pp.805-810.
Lingfan Weng, Edward K. S. Au, Peter W. C. Chan, Ross D. Murch, Roger S. Cheng, Wai Ho Mow and Vincent K. N. Lau, "Effect of Carrier Frequency Offset on Channel Estimation for SISO/MIMO systems", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 6, No. 4, April 2007.
Peter W. C. Chan, Ernest S. Lo, Ray R. Wang, Edward K. S. Au, Vincent K. N. Lau, Roger S. Cheng, and Wai Ho Mow, Ross D. Murch, and Khaled Ben Letaief, "The Evolution Path of 4G Networks: TDD or FDD?" IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 12, Dec 2006, pp.42-50.
C. S. Leung, Herbert Chan, and W. H. Mow, "Soft Decoding SOM for VQ over Wireless Channels", Neural Processing Letters, publisher: Springer Netherlands, Vol. 24, No. 2, Oct. 2006, pp. 179-192.
Ka Ming Ho and Wai Ho Mow, "Searching for the Best Biphase and Quadriphase Quasi-Barker Sequences", IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol.89-A, No.9, Sept. 2006, pp.2341-2344.
Tao Li, Wai Ho Mow and Khaled Ben Letaief, "Bit-Interleaved Unitary Space-Time Modulation with Iterative Detection", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.5, No.8, August 2006.
Xiaohu Tang and Wai Ho Mow, "Design of Spreading Codes for Quasi-Synchronous CDMA with Inter-Cell Interference", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 84-93.
Cong Ling, Wai Ho Mow, Kwok H. Li and Alex C. Kot, "Multiple-Antenna Differential Lattice Decoding", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 23, No. 9, Sept. 2005, pp. 1821-1829.
Zheng Ma, Wai Ho Mow and Pingzhi Fan, "On the Complexity Reduction of Turbo Decoding for Wideband CDMA", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 4, No. 2, March 2005, pp. 353-356.
Edward K. Au, Wing-Hung Ki, Wai Ho Mow, Silas T. Hung and Catherine Y. Wong, "A Switched-Current Sensing Architecture for a 4-State Per Cell Magnetic Tunnel Junction MRAM", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part I: Regular Papers, Vol.51, No.11, Nov 2004, pp.2113-2122.
Jacky Ho-Yin Fan, Ross D. Murch and Wai Ho Mow, "Near Maximum Likelihood Detection Schemes for Wireless MIMO Systems", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol.3, No.5, Sept. 2004, pp.1247-1430.
Pingzhi Fan and Wai Ho Mow, "On Optimal Training Sequence Design for Multiple-Antenna Systems Over Dispersive Fading Channels and Its Extensions", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.53, No.5, Sept. 2004, pp.1623-1626.
Edward K. Au, Wing-Hung Ki, Wai Ho Mow, Silas T. Hung and Catherine Y. Wong, "A Novel Current-Mode Sensing Scheme for Magnetic Tunnel Junction MRAM", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol.40, No.2, March 2004, pp. 483-488.
W.H. Mow, "Universal Lattice Decoding: Principle and Recent Advances", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Coding and Its Applications in Wireless CDMA Systems, Vol.3, Issue 5, August 2003, pp. 553-569.
W.H. Mow, "Generalized Even-Odd Transforms and Generalized EOE Sequences for Asynchronous M-PSK/CDMA", Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications, IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E-84-A, No. 10, Oct. 2001.
W.H. Mow, "Even-Odd Transformation with Application to Multi-User CW Radars", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 35, Oct. 1999, pp. 1466-70.
W.H. Mow, "A Tight Upper Bound on Discrete Entropy", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 44, March 1998, pp. 775-778.
W.H. Mow and S.-Y. R Li, "Aperiodic Autocorrelation and Crosscorrrelation of Polyphase Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 43, May 1997, pp. 1000-1007.
W.H. Mow, "General Limit Theorem for n-Phase Barker Sequences", Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 15, July 1996, pp.1364-1365.
W.H. Mow, "Capacity Bound for a Noiseless T-user Binary Adder Channel", Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 13, June 1996, pp. 1157-1158.
W.H. Mow, "On the Decimations of Frank Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 45, March 1995, pp. 751-753.
W.H. Mow, "Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation From the Lattice Viewpoint", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 40, September 1994, pp. 1591-1600. (Conference version published in: Proc. ISITA'92, Singapore, 16-20 Nov. 1992, Vol. 1, pp. 127-131.)
W.H. Mow, "Comments on About the Enumeration of Best Biphase Codes", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, July 1994, pp. 1876.
W.H. Mow, "On the Bounds on Odd Correlation of Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 1994, pp. 954-955.
W.H. Mow, "Best Quadriphase Codes Up to Length 24", Electronics Letters, Vol. 29, No. 10, May 1993, pp. 923-925.
W.H. Mow, "Enumeration Techniques for Best N-phase Codes", Electronics Letters, Vol. 29, No. 10, May 1993, pp. 907-908.
Book Collection Papers:
Jianqin Zhou, Wai Ho Mow and Xiaoping Dai, "Bent functions and codes with low peak-to-average power ratio for multi-code CDMA," Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms, and Error Correcting Codes (AAECC-17), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4851, edited by Serdar Boztas and Hsiao-Feng Lu, publisher: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-77223, Nov 2007, pp.60-71.
Gummadi S. Ramakrishna and Wai Ho Mow, "A New Search for Optimal Binary Arrays with Minimum Peak Sidelobe Levels", Sequences and Their Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, edited by Tor Helleseth, Dilip Sarwate, et al., Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 355-360.
W.H. Mow, "Towards a Unified Theory of Perfect Polyphase Sequences", Sequence Design and Applications for CDMA Systems, edited by Pingzhi Fan, Naoki Suehiro and Mike Darnell, SJU Press, ISBN 7-81-57-609-7, 2001.
W.H. Mow, "Hypertrellis: a Generalization of Trellis and Factor Graph", Codes, Systems, and Graphical Models, IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 123, edited by B. Marcus and J. Rosenthal, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-95173-3, Jan. 2001, pp. 167-194.
W.H. Mow, "Multiuser Coding Based on Detecting Matrices for Synchronous-CDMA Systems", Cryptography and Coding VI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1355, edited by M. Darnell, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-63927-6, 1997.
W.H. Mow, "A General Construction on Cubic Phase Sequences", Communications Coding and Signal Processing, 3rd Volume on Communication Theory and Applications, edited by B. Honary, M. Darnell and P. Farrell, Wiley/Research Studies Press , ISBN 0-471-978213, 1997.
Recent Conference Papers (since 2005):
Xiaoxiao Wu and Wai Ho Mow, "Efficient Ranking of Rate-compatible Puncturing Patterns for a Given LDPC Code Matrix," 2009 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom'09), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Nov 30 – Dec 4, 2009.
Ling Cong and Wai Ho Mow, "A Unified View of Sorting in Lattice Reduction: From V-BLAST to LLL and Beyond," 2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'09), Taormina, Sicily, Italy, Oct 11-16, 2009.
Minhua Ding, Steven Blostein, Wai Ho Mow, Constantin Siriteanu "A General Framework for MIMO Transceiver Design with Imperfect CSI and Transmit Correlation," 20th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium (PIMRC'09), Tokyo, Japan, Sept 13-16, 2009.
Wai Ho Mow and Ling Cong, "A Class of Efficient MIMO Detectors Based on the Notion of Partial Lattice Reduction," 2009 Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau Joint Workshop on Information Theory & Communications, Macau, China, 10-11 August 2009.
Siu Yan Chan and Wai Ho Mow, "Determining the Exact IOWEFs of the IS-95 and CDMA2000 Standardized Convolutional Codes," 2009 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'09), Recent Result Session, Seoul, Korea, June 28-July 3, 2009.
Daniel Dai and Wai Ho Mow, "Realizing Wireless Cooperative Communications with the One-Bit Soft Forwarding Technique," 2009 IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC'09), Budapest Hungary, April 5-8, 2009.
Siu Yan Chan and Wai Ho Mow, "In search of better convolutional codes for quasi-static fading channels: a new criterion with tabulated results," Workshop on Advances in Information Theory (WAIT'08), Hong Kong, December 12, 2008.
Fredrik Rusek, Edward K. Au, John B. Anderson and Wai Ho Mow, "A Minimum distance analysis of a certain class of two dimensional ISI channels", 2008 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'08), Toronto, Canada, July 6-11, 2008.
Edward K.S. Au, Shi Jin, Matthew R. McKay, W. H. Mow, Xiqi Gao, and Iain B. Collings, "'BER Analysis of MIMO-SVD Systems with Channel Estimation Error and Feedback Delay'", Proc. 2007 International Conference on Communications (ICC'07), Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., June 24-28, 2007.
Edward K. S. Au and Wai Ho Mow,
"Effect of Non-linear Amplitude Distortion on the Performance of MIMO
Zero-forcing Receivers with Channel Estimation Error", Proc.
2007 International Conference on Communications (ICC'07),
Qingchun Chen, Wai Ho Mow and Pingzhi Fan, "Some New Results on Recursive Convolutional Codes and Their Applications", 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'06), Chengdu, China, October 22-26, 2006.
Jiming Chen, Wai Ho Mow and S.Q. Li, "A Novel Near-ML Chase Detector for Wireless MIMO Systems", 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'06), Chengdu, China, October 22-26, 2006.
Qiang Li, Wai Ho Mow and S.Q. Li, "Robust Turbo Equalizer Schemes Against SNR Mismatch," 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'06), Chengdu, China, October 22-26, 2006.
Ling Cong, Lu Gan and Wai Ho Mow, "A Dual Lattice View of V-BLAST Detection", 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'06), Chengdu, China, October 22-26, 2006.
Wai Ho Mow, "Lattice Decoding in Communications: Complex is Less Complex," 2006 Taiwan-Hong Kong Joint Workshop on Information Theory & Communications, Hsinchu, Taiwan, August 28-29, 2006.
Edward K. Au and W. H. Mow, "Exact bit error rate for SVD-based MIMO systems with channel estimation errors," Proc. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'06), Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., July 9-14, 2006.
Tao Li, Wai Ho Mow, and Manhung Siu, "'Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation in the Presence of Unknown Impulsive Noise", Proc. 2006 International Conference on Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15, 2006.
Ying Hung Gan and Wai Ho Mow, "Accelerated Complex Lattice Reduction Algorithms Applied to MIMO Detection", 2005 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom'05), Missouri, USA, Nov. 28- Dec. 2, 2005.
Edward K. Au and Wai Ho Mow, "Low-Complexity Multi-head Detection for Multi-track Partial Response and Two-Dimensional Recording Channels", 2005 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom'05), Missouri, USA, Nov. 28- Dec. 2, 2005.
Ho-Yin Chan, W. H. Mow and C. S. Leung, "Index Assignment for Scalar Quantization with M-ary Phase Shift Keying," 2005 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'05), Adelaide, Australia, Sep. 4-9, 2005.
Edward K. Au and Wai Ho Mow, "A Modified State Reduction Algorithm for Computing Weight Enumerators for Convolutional Codes," 2005 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'05), Adelaide, Australia, Sep. 4-9, 2005.
Edward K. Au, Wai Ho Mow and Wing-Hung Ki, "Hypergraph: An alternative graphical model for computing transfer functions in circuits and systems", Proc. 2005 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS'05), Hong Kong, May 27-30, 2005.
Zheng Ma, Pingzhi Fan and Wai Ho Mow, "An Effective Stopping Scheme for Reduced-Complexity Iterative Decoding of Short-frame Turbo Codes," Proc. 2005 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS'05), Hong Kong, May 16-20, 2005.
Jie Jin, C. Y. Tsui and Wai Ho Mow, "A Threshold-based Algorithm and VLSI Architecture of a K-Best Lattice Decoder for MIMO Systems," 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'05), Kobe, Japan, May 23-26, 2005.
Cong Ling, Wai Ho Mow, Kwok H. Li and Alex C. Kot, "Differential Lattice Decoding in Noncoherent MIMO Communication", 2005 International Conference on Communications (ICC'05), Seoul, Korea, May 16-20, 2005.
Wai Ho Mow, "Universal Lattice Decoding," 2005 IEEE Taiwan/Hong Kong Joint Workshop on Information Theory and Communications, Hong Kong, Jan. 20-21, 2005.