YEUNG, Alan Kai-Hau
B.Sc. CUHK, P. G. Dip., M.Sc. CityU, Ph.D. CUHK, MIEEE, MBCS
Associate Professor
Department of Electronic Engineering
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Room:FYW-6312 Tel: (852)3442-7739 Fax: (852)2788-7791 Email: eeayeung@cityu.edu.hk
Dr. Yeung was born in Hong Kong. He graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 with a B.Sc. degree in electronics. Upon graduation, he worked as an electronic engineer in the R&D department of Bondwell Holding Limited. In 1985, he joined the Computer Centre of the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and worked as an analyst/programmer II. His main duties in the Centre were personal computer (PC) support and PC local area network (LAN) management. He was promoted to Analyst/Programmer I in 1988 - the same year in which the polytechnic began to move to its permanent campus. With his experience in LANs, Dr. Yeung was assigned to take part in setting up the new campus network. At that time, the campus network was the largest LAN to be installed in Hong Kong. In 1989, Dr. Yeung was awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in Electronic System Designs with Credit by the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong. This diploma programme was later converted to a M.Sc. programme and Dr. Yeung was then awarded the M.Sc. degree in 1991. In 1990, Dr. Yeung transferred to the Department of Electronic Engineering and became a Lecturer. Soon after taking up his lectureship, Dr. Yeung began his Ph.D. study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Under the supervision of Prof. Peter T. S. Yum, Dr. Yeung finished his Ph.D. degree in information engineering in 1995.

Dr. Yeung is active in research and has published many technical papers. He is also active in providing consultancy services to local industry in the areas of computer networking and communication systems. His clients include Hong Kong Education Department, Huchison Telecom, City Telecom (HK) Limited, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Truly GSM Technologies Ltd., Modern Terminal Ltd., IVRS, Mass Transit Railway Corp., and Breakthrough Ltd. Dr Yeung is also a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor (CCAI). He is currently the laboratory director of Teletraffics and Networking Team (TNT) of EE department. With his strong contacts in the field, Dr Yeung's industry experience has enriched his teaching and transformed him into a practical, hands-on teacher. His teaching philosophy involves helping students apply their knowledge in solving real-life problems. In the past few years, Dr Yeung has devoted his time and energy in establishing a quality Internet systems laboratory environment for student use. With this simulated environment, student learning is enhanced by the opportunity to solve everyday problems. Dr Yeung has received much positive feedback, from students and peers, for this work. In 2000-2001, Dr Yeung was elected the Outstanding Teacher of the Year by the Department of Electronic Engineering. In 2001-2002, he is one of the recipients of City University's Teaching Excellence Awards.


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Internet Systems, Data Communications & Networking, LANs, VOD Systems, Multimedia Systems, Information Delivery Systems

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. K. Y. Wong and K. H. Yeung, "Site-Based Mapping for Parallel Proxy Server with Fewer TCP Connections", in press, IEEE Network Magazine, 2004.
  2. K. Y. Leung, W. M. Wong and K. H. Yeung, "Designing Efficient and Robust Caching Algorithms for Streaming-on-Demand Services on the Internet", accepted for publication in World Wide Web Journal, 2004.
  3. K. H. Yeung, K. W. Suen, K. Y. Wong and K. Y. Leung, "Design and Implementation of a Scalable Web Server Cluster", accepted for publication in Journal of Internet Technology, 2004.
  4. K. H. Yeung, C. C. Wong and K. Y. Wong, "A Cache Replacement Policy for Transcoding Proxy", IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E87-B, No. 1, Jan. 2004.
  5. S. Y. Hui and K. H. Yeung, "Challenges in the Migration to 4G Mobile Systems", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 41, No.12, Dec. 2003.
  6. K. H. Yeung, K. P. Fung, and K. Y. Wong, "Performance Study on Disk Operations by Broadcast Polling Model", IEICE Transactions, Vol. E86-B, No. 6, p.2012, June 2003.
  7. K. H. Yeung, K. W. Suen, and K. Y. Wong, "Least Load Dispatching Algorithm for Parallel Web Server Nodes", IEE Proceedings - Communications, Vol.149, No.4, pp.223-226, Aug. 2002.
  8. K. Y. Wong and K. H. Yeung, "Site-Based Approach in Web Caching Design", IEEE Internet Computing, Vol.5, No.5, pp.28-34, September/October, 2001.
  9. K. H. Yeung and T. S. Yum, "Dynamic Multiple Parity (DMP) Disk Array for Serial Transaction Processing", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vo.50, No.9, pp.949-959, September, 2001.
  10. K. H. Yeung, K. Y. Leung, C. W. Sezto, and W. M. Wong, "A Configurable and Scalable Arrival Model For Web Traffic Generation and Measurement", an invited paper presented in the International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet, Italy, Aug. 2000.
  11. K. W. Ng and K. H. Yeung, "Analysis on Disk Scheduling for Special User Functions", IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.9, No.5, pp.752-765, Aug. 1999.
  12. W. K. Wong and K. H. Yeung, ".....", ...... (in Chinese), Chapter 19, edited by H. Li, ....., July 1998.
  13. Y. M. Chiu and K. H. Yeung, "Partial Video Sequence Caching Scheme for VOD Systems with Heterogeneous Clients", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol.45, No.1, pp.44-51, Feb. 1998.
  14. K. H. Yeung and T. S. Yum, "Dynamic Parity Logging Disk Array for Engineering Database Systems", IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques, Vol. 144, No. 5, pp.255-260, Sep. 1997.
  15. K. H. Yeung and T. S. Yum, "Selective broadcast data distribution systems", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol.46, No.1, pp.100-104, Jan. 1997.
  16. K. H. Yeung, "Approximation to expected message delay of polling systems", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol.32, No.20, pp.1849-1850, Sep. 1996.

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