Kwok Wa Leung (S’90–M’93–SM’02–F’11) was born in Hong Kong in 1967. He received his B.Sc. degree in electronics and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

From 1990 to 1993, he was a Graduate Assistant with the Department of Electronic Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. In 1994, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) as an Assistant Professor and is currently a Professor. He was an Assistant Head of the Department from 2009 to 2013. From Jan. to June, 2006, Professor Leung was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Professor Leung’s students received the 2015 iWEM Student Best Paper Award, 2015 IEEE AP-S Eugene F. Knott Memorial Pre-Doctoral Research Award, and 2014 IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship.

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, Hong Kong, the Technical Program Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE TENCON, Hong Kong, and the Finance Chair of PIERS 1997, Hong Kong. His research interests include antenna designs, guided wave theory, computational electromagnetics, and mobile communications. He was an Editor for HKIE Transactions and a Guest Editor of IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation. Prof. Leung served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. He also served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (TAP) and received Transactions Commendation Certificates twice in 2009 and 2010 for his exceptional performance. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society from 2012 to 2014. Currently, Prof. Leung is the Editor-in-Chief of TAP and a member of the AP-S Distinguished Lecturer Program Committee.

Professor Leung received the International Union of Radio Science (USRI) Young Scientists Awards in Japan and Russia in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He also received CityU Research Excellence Award 2013 and Departmental Outstanding Teacher Awards in 2005, 2010, and 2011.