|
|
Dr. Wing-Kin (Ken) MaAssistant Professor Department of Electronic Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Office: Room 323, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building Tel.: +852 31634350 Fax: +852 26035558 E-mail: wkma AT ee.cuhk.edu.hk |
|
|
Dr. Wing-Kin (Ken) MaAssistant Professor Department of Electronic Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Office: Room 323, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building Tel.: +852 31634350 Fax: +852 26035558 E-mail: wkma AT ee.cuhk.edu.hk |
Wing-Kin Ma was born in Hong Kong. After obtaining his B.Eng. degree in electrical and electronic engineering (with first class honours) from the University of Portsmouth, U.K., in 1995, he returned to Hong Kong pursuing postgraduate studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He received his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electronic engineering, CUHK, in 1997 and 2001, respectively.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK. He was with the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Institute of Communications Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, as an Assistant Professor from Aug. 2005 to Aug. 2007. He is still holding an Adjunct Assistant Professor position there. Prior to becoming a faculty, he held various research positions at McMaster University, Canada, CUHK, Hong Kong, and the University of Melbourne, Australia.
His research interests are in signal processing (SP) and communications, with a recent emphasis on convex optimization techniques for SP, MIMO communications, and source localization and tracking.
Dr. Ma received British Telecom Research and Technology Prize at the University of Portsmouth in 1995. His Ph.D. thesis was commended to be "of very high quality and well deserved honorary mentioning" by the Faculty of Engineering, CUHK in 2001. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
W.-K. Ma, T.N. Davidson, K.M. Wong, Z.Q. Luo and P.C. Ching, "Quasi-maximum-likelihood multiuser detection using semi-definite relaxation with application to synchronous CDMA," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 912-922, Apr. 2002. (cited 130 times according to Google Scholar, cited 53 times according to ISI Web of Science, classified as "Highly Cited Paper" by ISI Essential Science Indicators).
B.-N. Vo and W.-K. Ma, "The Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density filter," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 54, no. 11, 4091-4104, Nov. 2006.
W.-K. Ma, B.-N. Vo, T.N. Davidson, and P.C. Ching, "Blind ML detection of orthogonal space-time block codes: High-performance, efficient implementations," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 54, no. 2, 738-751, Feb. 2006.
W.-K. Ma, "Blind ML detection of orthogonal space-time block codes: Identifiability and code construction," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 3312-3324, July 2007.
T.-H.
Chan, W.-K. Ma, C-.Y. Chi, and Y. Wang, "A
convex analysis framework for blind separation of non-negative sources,"
IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 5120-5134, Oct.
2008.
A full publication list is available here.
Here are some of the topics I am currently pursuing:
MIMO and cooperative communications
Convex optimization techniques for signal processing
Blind channel identification and signal separation
Multiple source localization with application to sensor networks
Random finite set theory for multi-target tracking
If you would like to know more about my current research works, you are more than welcome to email me.
For these projects there are vacancies for postgraduate scholarships leading to M.Phil. or Ph.D. degree. If you think you are highly motivated and have strong interest in signal processing and communications research, send me an email to discuss the opportunities. Note that according to various surveys, CUHK has good international and regional (Asia) rankings.
Aug. 2008: A new graduate course on signal processing, entitled "Signal Processing Optimization Techniques" is offered this term. You are welcome to join.
Aug. 2008: We have two new PhD students coming through this Aug.: Qiang Li and Jiaxian Pan. Welcome!
July 2008: My students in National Tsing Hua Univ., Tsung-Hui Chang, Tsung-Han Hsieh, Lenyi Li, Chien-Wei Shin, and Chao-Cheng Su (co-supervised with Prof. Chong-Yung Chi) have successfully defended their MPhil or PhD theses. They are going to high-tech. industry, except for Tsung-Hui (should call him Dr. Chang) who will pursue his career in the academia and will work as a postdoctoral fellow in the same institute. Congratulations to you all and I believe all of you will have a bright future!
July 2008: I am serving as a Guest Editor of a special issue of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, entitled Optimization Techniques for Wireless Communications; see call for paper. The manuscript submission deadline is Dec. 1, 2008.
Dec 2007: We have made a homepage for our very recently proposed framework for non-negative blind source separation. In there you can find available MATLAB source codes for reproducing the research results.
Sept 2007: Starting from Oct. 2007, I will be appointed as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, a very prestigious journal in signal processing.
Dec 2006: A series of IEEE ComSoc & SPS Distinguished Lectures, by Prof. K. M. Wong at McMaster University, Canada, will be held consecutively in NTU, NCTU, and NTHU. See the flyer for the details. Please contact me for any further information.
July 2006: Ahmed Pasha, the principal author of the following paper, has won the Best Student Paper Contest in the 9th International Conference on Information Fusion 2006.
A. Pasha, B.-N. Vo, H. D. Tuan, and W.-K. Ma, "Closed form PHD filtering for linear jump Markov models," in Proc. 9th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 2006.
Last update: Oct. 2008.