Buon Kiong Lau, Professor

Dr. Buon Kiong (Vincent) Lau is a Professor and the Head of the Communications Engineering Division at the Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University. He is also the Deputy Head of the same department.

Dr. Lau obtained the Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Western Australia in 1998. From 1998 to 2002, he did his Ph.D. at Curtin University of Technology, Australia, on the topic "Applications of Adaptive Antennas in 3G Mobile Communication Systems". From January 2003 to April 2004, he was a Guest Research Fellow at the Department of Signal Processing, Blekinge Institute of Technology. He was a Research Fellow (May 2004-May 2007) at the Department of Electroscience, Lund University, and later an Assistant Professor (June 2007-October 2010) and an Associate Professor (Nov 2010-Mar 2016) in the Department of Electrical and Information Technology (formerly Department of Electroscience). Between July 2010 and December 2014, he served as the Director of Postgraduate Studies at the same department.

Dr. Lau is a Senior Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation (OJAP). He was an Associate Editor (AE), Senior AE and Track Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP) between 2010 and 2016. He received an award from the same journal for exceptional performance as an Associate Editor during 2014-2015. He was also a Guest Editor of the 2012 TAP Special Issue on MIMO Technology, the Lead Guest Editor for the 2016 TAP Special Issue on Theory and Applications of Characteristic Modes, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE TAP Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in Radio Propagation for Communications. He was the Lead Guest Editor of the 2013 Special Cluster on Terminal Antenna Systems for 4G and Beyond for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, as well as the Lead/sole Guest Editor of the 2022 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine Special Issue on "Characteristic Modes: Into the Mainstream and the Path Beyond". He was a co-recipient of the 2023 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award for the paper “Scaling up MIMO: Opportunities and challenges with very large arrays”, published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 2013. 

From 2007 to 2011, he was a Co-chair of Subworking Group 2.2 on "Compact Antenna Systems for Terminals" (CAST) within EU COST Action 2100. He was the chair of Subworking Group 1.1 on "Antenna System Aspects" within EU COST Action IC1004 between 2011-2015. From 2012-2015, he was the Regional Delegate of European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) for Region 6 (Iceland, Norway, Sweden). He was elected as an Administrative Committee Member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S). He is also a member of the Education Committee in the AP-S, where he was also the Coordinator of the annual AP-S Student Design Contest (3-year term between 2013-2015). He joined the New Technology Directions Committee of AP-S in 2021, which became Technical Directions Committee (TDC) during 2024. He is serving as the Vice-Chair of TDC. In 2014,

Dr. Lau initiated the international Characteristic Modes Special Interest Group (CM-SIG) (www.characteristicmodes.org), which aims to promote new breakthroughs and foster coordination/collaboration in CM research. Currently, over 100 research groups/companies are members of the SIG. Additionally, he served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE AP-S during 2017-2019. In 2022, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to multi-antenna systems in wireless communications.

Dr. Lau's primary research interests are in various aspects of multiple antenna systems, particularly the interplay between traditionally separate disciplines of antennas, propagation channels and signal processing.