Background
Cheung, Kwok-Wai was born on May 14, 1956 in Hong Kong. Came to the United States, 1980. Son of Kwun-hung and Pik-wan (Lee) Cheung.
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Kwok-Wai Cheung
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Kwok-Wai Cheung, Chinese optical network researcher. Achievements include patents for Switch for Selectively Switching Optical Wavelenghts, (with others) Integrated Acousto-Optic Filters and Switches, (with other) Polarization-Dependent and Polarization-Diversified Opto-Electronic Devices Using a Strained Quantum Well, (with other) Wavelength Division Multiplexing Using a Tuanble Acoustic Optic Filter.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with 1st honors, University Hong Kong, 1978. Master of Science in Physics, Yale University, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1987.
Career
Member technical staff, Bell Comm. Research, Morristown, New Jersey, 1987-1990;
member technical staff, Bell Comm. Research, Red Bank, New Jersey, 1990-1992;
associate professor department engineering, Chinese U., Hong Kong, since 1993;
director Centre of Excellence for Communications Network Research, Chinese U., Hong Kong, since 1995;
Chairman, Board Of Directors, Electronic News Media & Public Consortium, Hong Kong, since 1995.
Senior research associate Columbia University, New York City, 1990. Visiting research associate ChineseAcad. Sciences, since 1992.
Referee to various journals.
Achievements
Membership
Founder, trustee Olive Tree Ministries International, New Jersey, since 1989. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior ), Optical Society of America, Society Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Photonic Society Chinese-Americans.
Connections
Married Chang-Song Qin.
