Vincent LAU (劉堅能)

Fellow of IEEE · Fellow of HKIE · Fellow IET · Fellow Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES)
Chair Professor, Department of ECE, HKUST
Croucher Senior Research Fellow
Changjiang Chair Professor, Zhejiang University
Director & Founder, Huawei-HKUST Joint Research Lab (click here)
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Contact
Rm 2416, Lift 17/18, 2/F, Department of ECE, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay Road, HK
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Vincent LAU

◆ Overview

Vincent obtained B.Eng (Distinction 1st Hons – ranked 2nd) from the Department of EEE, University of Hong Kong in 1992. He joined Hong Kong Telecom (PCCW) for 3 years as a system engineer. He was awarded the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship, Rotoract Scholarship and the Croucher Foundation Scholarship in 1995 and studied for his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, completing it in 2 years.

He joined Bell Labs – Lucent Technologies, New Jersey in 1997 as a Member of Technical Staff, working on IS95, 3G1X, UMTS, WCDMA base station ASIC design, MIMO and HSDPA Systems and 3GPP Standardizations. He joined HKUST in August 2004 and is currently Chair Professor. He has been technology advisor for ZTE, Huawei, and ASTRI, and is founder and director of the Huawei-HKUST Innovation Lab (click here).

Vincent has published over 300 papers (300 journal papers on IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE JSAC, 150+ conference papers, 15 Bell Labs Technical Memoranda) and contributed to 50+ granted US patents. He is a key contributor to 4 IEEE 802.22 WRAN standard contributions adopted into the specification. He received best paper awards in ICC 2008, ChinaCom 2008, IEEE Comsoc Asia Pacific Board, Globecom 2025. He has served as the Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the Area Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and book-series editor for the ICT book series (John Wiley & Sons).

Vincent has extensive public service experience in Hong Kong. He served as Chair of the Telecommunication Affairs Committee (TAC) and Member of the Communications Authority (2019–2025), advising on telecommunications regulatory affairs. He was a Member of the Competition Commission, HKSAR (2020–2026), contributing to competition policy and enforcement. He has also served as a Panel Member of the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), reviewing applied R&D proposals. In addition, he has substantial experience as a patent litigation expert witness, providing technical analysis and testimony in patent disputes for firms including Bird & Bird, Lovells Ltd., and Hon and Co.

Main Research Interests

  1. 6G Wireless Communication Systems (Massive MIMO Channel Estimation, Feedback, Beamforming, ISAC, Intelligent Surfaces)
  2. Integrated Control and Communications (Mission-Critical IoT, Remote State Estimation over Wireless Networks, Autonomous Multi-agent Systems and Control, Platooning over Wireless Networks, Super-low Latency Wireless Access Technologies)
  3. Bayesian Signal Processing and Machine Learning (Bayesian Inferencing, Bayesian Model Compression)
  4. Integrated AI and Wireless Networking (End-to-end AI-assisted Physical Layer and Cross Layer Design, Over-the-Air Aggregation for Federated Learning over Wireless Networks, Accelerated Training Algorithms for Machine Learning)

Mathematical Tools

Stochastic Optimization Theory, Stochastic Algorithm Design and Analysis, Continuous Time (SDE) Model of Stochastic Algorithms, Lyapunov Optimization for Acceleration of Stochastic Algorithms, Markov Decision Process and Reinforcement Learning Algorithms, Sparse Recovery, Bayesian Signal Processing, Information Theory.

Side Interests

Digital baseband ASIC architecture and RTL design for wireless communications, digital hardware (FPGA/PCB/Embedded controller) design and prototyping, PCB Design and Fabrication. Patent Litigation, Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Analysis