Research Interests: Future Internet, Smart Grid, Vehicle-to-Grid, Wireless Communications, AI Applications in Networking and Smart Grids.

B.Eng. (First Class Honors), Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, November 1994
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Computer Networks), University of Southern California, December 1997
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, December 2000

Dr. Leung received the B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 1994, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (Computer Networks) and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He was a member of the team that won the Fourth ACM (Hong Kong Chapter) Scholastic Programming Contest, Hong Kong, in July 1994. He participated as an alternate team member to the 1994-1995 19th Annual International Collegiate Programming Contest (Contest Finals), Nashville, TN, USA, in March 1995. He worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center, Nokia Inc., Irving, TX, USA, during 2001 and 2002, and was involved in the design, standardization, and implementation of a signalling payload compression protocol architecture used in wireless networks. He took full-time academic appointments at several world renowned universities, including Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA (2002-2005), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2005-2019), and Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China (2019-2022). Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Communications Engineering at the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, and Springer Wireless Networks. He has also co-guest edited a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Furthermore, he is a Subarea-Chair of the IEEE SIG on Intelligent Internet Edge.

External Research Grants

1. K.-C. Leung (PI), Scalable Bufferbloat Control in Multi-Bottleneck Networks (多瓶頸網路中的可擴展緩衝膨脹控制), General Research Project, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
   (Project Code NSTC 114-2221-E-110-038 -, 1 August 2025 – 31 July 2026 ; Fund Awarded: TWD 817,000)
   (Project Code NSTC 114-2811-E-110-016, 1 September 2025 – 31 July 2026 ; Fund Awarded: TWD 880,523 [Postdoctoral Research Fellow]).

2. K.-C. Leung (PI), Distributed Self-Tuning Active Queue Management in Multi-Bottleneck Networks (多瓶頸網絡中的分散式調整主動隊列管理), General Research Project, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, Project Code NSTC 113-2221-E-110-058 -, 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2025
   (Fund Awarded: TWD 803,000).

3. K.-C. Leung (PI), Self-Tuning Active Queue Management in Multi-Bottleneck Networks (多瓶頸網絡中的自調整主動隊列管理之研究), General Research Project, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, Project Code NSTC 112-2222-E-110-001 -, 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2024
   (Fund Awarded: TWD 863,000).

4. K.-L. Wong (PI), K. Singh (Co-I), F.-K. Wang (Co-I), T.-H. Lin (Co-I), Y.-M. Chen (Co-I), C.-K. Wen (Co-I), W.-J. Huang (Co-I), F.-S. Tseng (Co-I), and K.-C. Leung (Co-I), 6G中高頻高階MIMO行動通訊系統, Integrated Research Project, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan [4-Year Project]
   (Project Code NSTC 112-2218-E-110-004 -, 1 June 2023 – 31 May 2024 ; Fund Awarded: TWD 15,300,000)
   (Project Code NSTC 113-2218-E-110-009 -, 1 June 2024 – 31 May 2025 ; Fund Awarded: TWD 14,102,000)
   (Project Code NSTC 114-2218-E-110-005 -, 1 June 2025 – 31 May 2026 ; Fund Awarded: TWD 12,062,000).

5. X. Li (PI), X. Chen (Co-I), K.-C. Leung (Co-I), Y. Zhang (Co-I), X. Zhang (Co-I), 基2020N282 基於國產靜止衛星的強對流災難智能預測研究, Shenzhen Basic Research Program, Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, China, 1 January 2021 – 31 December 2023
   (Fund Awarded: RMB 2,000,000).

6. K.-C. Leung (PI), V. O. K. Li (Co-I), S. H. Low (Co-I), and D. J. Hill (Co-I), Real-Time Power Balancing in Electrical Grids with Vehicle-to-Grid Technology, General Research Fund, Research Council, Hong Kong, Project Code 17261416, 1 September 2016 – 31 August 2019
   (Fund Awarded: HKD 675,647).

7. D. J. Hill (PC), R. S. Y. Hui (Co-PI), V. O. K. Li (Co-PI), Q. Li (Co-PI), S. C. Chan (Co-I), K. T. Chau (Co-I), G. Chesi (Co-I), S. C. Tan (Co-I), Y. C. Yu (Co-I), J. Zhong (Co-I), C. K. Lee (Co-I), K.-C. Leung  (Co-I), Y. Hou (Co-I), H. K. H. So (Co-I), Z. Xu (Co-I), L. Shi (Co-I), D. Mandic (Co-I), T. Parisini (Co-I), B. Chauhduri (Co-I), Z. Y. Dong (Co-I), J. Ma (Co-I), Sustainable Power Delivery Structures for High Renewables, Theme-Based Research Scheme, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, Project Code T23-701/14-N, 1 January 2015 – 31 December 2019
   (Fund Awarded: HKD 47,120,000).

8. K.-C. Leung (PI), V. O. K. Li (Co-I), and S. H. Low (Co-I), A Robust Link Pricing Theory for Combating Bufferbloat, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, Project Code 17204614, 1 January 2015 – 31 December 2017
   (Fund Awarded: HKD 500,000).

9. V. O. K. Li (PI), K.-C. Leung (Co-I), and S. H. Low (Co-I), A Unified Theory of Congestion and Error Control for Next-Generation Transport Layer Protocols, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, Project Code HKU 714510E, 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2013
   (Fund Awarded: HKD 972,000 + HKD 145,800 on-costs).

10. K.-C. Leung (PI) and V. O. K. Li (Co-I), Adaptive QoS-Based Scheduling for Ubiquitous Communication, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, Project Code HKU 714310E, 1 January 2011 – 31 December 2013
    (Fund Awarded: HKD 936,357 + HKD 140,454 on-costs).

11. V. O. K. Li (PI), Z. Li (PI), L. K. Yeung (Co-I), K.-S. Lui (Co-I), K.-C. Leung (Co-I), L. Cui (Co-I), and J. Shi (Co-I), Heterogeneous Peer-to-Peer Networks, CAS-Croucher Funding Scheme for Joint Laboratories 2008, The Croucher Foundation
    (Fund Awarded: HKD 1,000,000).

12. K.-S. Lui (PI), K.-C. Leung (Co-I), and S. Uludag (Co-I), Network Parameter Representation and Quality of Service Routing in the Internet, Cisco Collaborative Research Initiative, 1 September 2007
    (Fund Awarded: USD 95,000).

13. V. O. K. Li (PI) and K.-C. Leung (Co-I), Multihop Scheduling in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Competitive Earmarked Research Grant, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, Project Code HKU 7148/06E, 1 September 2006 – 31 August 2008
    (Fund Awarded: HKD 356,000).

Courses Taught

• National Sun Yat-Sen University:

• EE3310: Discrete Mathematics (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
• EE3607: Probability Theory (Spring 2025)
• EE3607 / GEAI1343: Probability Theory (Spring 2024)
• ICE502 / IMPTE514: Random Processes (Fall 2022)
• ICE541 / IMPTE519: Performance Evaluation of Communications Systems (Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025)
• Visiting Lecture Program at Universitas Brawijaya: Introductory to Probability Theory

• Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen:

• COMP3032: Network Security (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
• COMP5046: Information Security (Fall 2021)
• MATH3008: Databases and Data Mining (Spring 2022)

• The University of Hong Kong:

• CSIS 7304: The Wireless Internet and Mobile Computing (Summer 2006)
• ELEC 1802: Engineering Mathematics II (First 2013)
• ELEC 2811: Probability and Statistics (First 2006, First 2010)
• ELEC 2817: Probability and Statistics in Engineering (First 2013)
• ELEC 2817 / ELEC 3847: Probability and Statistics in Engineering (First 2014, First 2015, First 2016)
• ELEC 3703: Queuing Theory (First 2007, First 2009, First 2010)
• ELEC 3705: Queueing Theory (Second 2013)
• ELEC 3847: Probability and Statistics in Engineering (First 2017)
• ELEC 6097: IP Networks (Second 2013)
• ELEC 7001: Seminar Module (2015-16, 2016-17)
• ELEC 8002: Advanced Topics in Networking (Second 2017, Second 2019)
• ELEC 8211: Queueing Theory (Second 2016, Second 2018, First 2018)

• Texas Tech University:

• CS 3352: Introduction to Systems Programming (Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004)
• CS 5331: Special Problems in Computer Science — Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems (Fall 2003)
• CS 5376: Communication Networks (Spring 2003, Spring 2004)

Selected Publications

• J. Ye, K.-C. Leung*, and S. H. Low, Combating Bufferbloat in Multi-Bottleneck Networks: Theory and Algorithms, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 1477-1493, August 2021. [Research News (English, Chinese)]

• H. Ding and K.-C. Leung*, Cross-Layer Resource Allocation in HetNet NOMA Systems With Dynamic Traffic Arrivals, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 1403-1415, March 2023.

• K.-C. Leung*, X. Zhu, H, Ding, and Q. He, Energy Management for Renewable Microgrid Cooperation: Theory and Algorithm, IEEE Access, Vol. 11, pp. 46915-46925, 2023.

• S. Zhang and K.-C. Leung*, Joint Optimal Power Flow Routing and Vehicle-to-Grid Scheduling: Theory and Algorithms, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 499-512, January 2022.

• S. Zhang and K.-C. Leung*, A Smart Cross-System Framework for Joint Allocation and Scheduling With Vehicle-to-Grid Regulation Service, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 71, No. 6, pp. 6019-6031, June 2022.

• X. Chen and K.-C. Leung*, Non-Cooperative and Cooperative Optimization of Scheduling With Vehicle-to-Grid Regulation Services, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 114-130, January 2020.

• X. Chen, K.-C. Leung*, A. Y. S. Lam, and D. J. Hill, Online Scheduling for Hierarchical Vehicle-to-Grid System: Design, Formulation, and Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 1302-1317, February 2019.

• B. Zhang, K.-C. Leung, X. Li, and Y. Ye*, Learn to Abstract via Concept Graph for Weakly-Supervised Few-Shot Learning, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 117, Article 107946, September 2021.

• A. Y. S. Lam, K.-C. Leung, and V. O. K. Li, Capacity Estimation for Vehicle-to-Grid Frequency Regulation Services With Smart Charging Mechanism, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 156-166, January 2016.

• J. Lin, K.-C. Leung, and V. O. K. Li, Optimal Scheduling With Vehicle-to-Grid Regulation Service, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 556-569, December 2014.

• K.-C. Leung, V. O. K. Li, and D. Yang, An Overview of Packet Reordering in Transmission Control Protocol (TCP): Problems, Solutions, and Challenges, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 522-535, April 2007. [Web Site]

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