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Raymond W. Yeung (; born June, 1962) is an
information theorist Information is an abstract concept that refers to something which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level, it pertains to the interpretation (perhaps formally) of that which may be sensed, or their abstractions. Any natur ...
and the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering at
The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...
, where he serves as Co-Director of Institute of Network Coding.


Biography

Yeung was born in
Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...
. He attended
Wah Yan College, Kowloon Wah Yan College Kowloon (WYK; ; demonym: ''Wahyanite'', pl.: ''Wahyanites'') is a Catholic secondary school for boys run by the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus. It is located in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and is a grant-in-aid secondary sc ...
for secondary school education. Then he went to the
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to study at
Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
, where he obtained his BS, MEng, and PhD degrees in
Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...
in 1984, 1985, and 1988, respectively. In 1988, he joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel. Since 1991, he has been with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and Co-Director of Institute of Network Coding. Yeung’s research interests are in
information theory Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...
, network coding, and
probability theory Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expre ...
. His pioneering contributions to network coding laid the groundwork for the field. He is also known for his works on information inequalities. Together with Zhen Zhang, he discovered the first unconstrained non-Shannon-type inequality, often referred to as the Zhang-Yeung inequality, that revealed the incompleteness of the previously known constraints on the entropy function. He also pioneered the machine-proving of entropy inequalities. Yeung has published two textbooks on information theory and network coding (2002, 2008) that have been adopted by over 100 universities. His MOOC on information theory, first offered on
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in 2014, has reached over 60,000 students to date.


Awards

* 2001: Croucher Senior Research Fellowship * 2003:
IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...
Fellow for contributions to network
coding theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and computer data storage, data sto ...
. * 2005: IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award * 2007: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award * 2016: IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award * 2018: ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award * 2021: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal * 2022:
Claude E. Shannon Award The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was created to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following ...
* 2022:
National Academy of Inventors The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging inventors in academia, following the model of the National Academies of the United States. It was founded at the University of South Florida in 201 ...
* 2022:
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Bibliography


Books

'' A First Course in Information Theory'', (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002) ''Network Coding Theory'', (now Publishers, 2005) – with S.-Y. R. Li, N. Cai, and Z. Zhang ''Information Theory and Network Coding'', (Springer, 2008) ''BATS Codes: Theory and Practice'', (Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2017) - with S. Yang


Journal Publications

1991: "A new outlook on Shannon's information measures," ''IEEE Trans. on Information Theory'' 1994: "Matrix product-form solutions for Markov chains with a tree structure," ''Advances in Applied Probability'' - with B. Sengupta 1997: "A framework for linear information inequalities," ''IEEE Trans. on Information Theory'' 1998: "On characterization of entropy functions via information inequalities," ''IEEE Trans. on Information Theory'' – with Z. Zhang 2000: "Network information flow," ''IEEE Trans. on Information Theory'' – with R. Ahlswede, N. Cai, and S.-Y. R. Li 2002: “On a relation between information inequalities and group theory,” ''IEEE Trans. on Information Theory'' – with T. H. Chan 2003: "Linear network coding," ''IEEE Trans. Information Theory'' – with S.-Y. R. Li and N. Cai 2006: "Network error correction, Part I & Part II," ''Communications in Information and Systems'' - with N. Cai 2011: "Secure network coding on a wiretap network," ''IEEE Trans. Information Theory'' - with N. Cai 2014: "Batched sparse code," ''IEEE Trans. Information Theory'' - with S. Yang 2020: "Proving and disproving information inequalities," ''IEEE Trans. Information Theory'' - with S.-W. Ho, L. Ling, and C. W. Tan


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''Information Theory''


Software

1996: ''Information Theoretic Inequality Prover (ITIP)''- with Y.-O. Yan 2020: ''AITIP'' - with S.-W. Ho, L. Ling, C. W. Tan


References

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