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For his being a world leading expert in applied electromagnetics with seminal contributions on the development on antennas for wireless communications and sensors.

Prof. LEUNG, Kwok Wa received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the CUHK in 1990 and 1993, respectively. In 1994, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, where he is currently a Chair Professor and Associate Dean (Research) of College of Engineering. He was the Associate Head of the Department. In 2006, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Professor Leung was the Chair of the IEEE AP/MTT Hong Kong Joint Chapter for the years of 2006 and 2007. He was the Technical Program Chair, 2008 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference, HK, the Technical Program Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE TENCON, HK. He is the inventor of glass antenna with US patents. He was an Editor for HKIE Transactions and a Guest Editor of IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP), which is the most prestigious journal in the field. He was selected as outstanding Associate Editor of the TAP twice in 2009 and 2010. From 2013 to 2016, Prof. Leung was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the TAP, being the first appointed from Asia since the journal was founded in 1952. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Prof. Leung received the USRI Young Scientists Awards in Japan and Russia, in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He received the Departmental Outstanding Teacher Awards in 2005, 2010, and 2011. He also received the CityU Research Excellence Award 2013. He received the prestigious First Class Award (Natural Science) of the 2016 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards, the Ministry of Education, China. He is a Fellow of IEEE.