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The Wonderful World of 5-G Wireless Systems

By Prof Vincent Lau

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Date:	18 Jun 2014

Time:	12:30 pm - 2 pm (Lunch included)

Venue:	HKUST Business School Central 15/F, Hong Kong Club Building 3A Charter Road, Central, Hong Kong.

Remarks:	Seats are limited and first-come-first-served. Registration starts one month before the talk.

Enquires:	2358 5019 / science.for.lunch@ust.hk

The world is now using the 4-G wireless systems. But the research community is already hard at work creating the next generation 5-G wireless systems, expected to arrive by 2020. What sets the future 5-G apart from the current 4-G? It will have a data capacity 1000 times greater, and an energy efficiency 1000 times better, translating into faster bit rate. In addition, it will support new application scenarios such as machine-to-machine communications. Such goals are not easily achievable. The talk, in layman language, will take the audience into the new vision and applications as well as technical challenges and opportunities.

Prof Vincent Lau
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Graduating with a Bachelor in Engineering from the University of Hong Kong, Vincent completed his Ph.D. from Cambridge in a record two years. He worked at Bell Labs before joining HKUST where he is currently a Professor and Founding Director of Huawei-HKUST Joint Innovation Lab. Elected IEEE Fellow, Changjiang Chair Professor and Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Vincent has published more than 220 IEEE papers with 30 US patents in wireless systems to his credit, winning three IEEE best paper awards. He is an editor of various IEEE journals.