Prof Soon Xin Ng (Michael) [S’99-M’03-SM’08] received the B.Eng. degree (First class) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, U.K., in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 2003 to 2006, he was a postdoctoral research fellow working on collaborative European research projects known as SCOUT, and . Since August 2006, he has been a member of academic staff in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ. He was involved in the and European projects as well as the and projects. He was the principal investigator of an EPSRC project on ““. He is currently a Professor of Next Generation Communications at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ.
His research interests include adaptive coded modulation, coded modulation, channel coding, space-time coding, joint source and channel coding, iterative detection, OFDM, MIMO, cooperative communications, distributed coding, quantum communications, quantum error correction codes, joint wireless-and-optical-fibre communications, game theory, artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has published over 260 papers and co-authored two John Wiley/IEEE Press books in this field.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET. He acted as TPC/track/workshop chairs for various conferences. He serves as an editor of . He was a guest editor for the special issues in as well as editors in the and the . He is one of the of the (QCIT-ETC). He was the programme leader of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) during 2018 – 2021 and has been the ECS Doctoral Programme Director since 2021, at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ.
