Anthony C. K. Soong (S’88-M’91-SM’02-F”14) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta. He is currently the Chief Scientist for Wireless Research and Standards at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, in the US. His research group is actively engaged in the research, development and standardization of the next generation cellular system. He served as the chair for 3GPP2 TSG-C NTAH (the next generation radio access network technology development group) from 2007-2009 and vice chair for 3GPP2 TSG-C WG3 (the physical layer development group for CDMA 2000) from 2006-2011. Prior to joining Huawei, he was with the systems group for Ericsson Inc and Qualcomm Inc. His research interests are in statistical signal processing, robust statistics, wireless communications, spread spectrum techniques,
multicarrier signaling, multiple antenna techniques and physiological signal processing. Dr. Soong is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has published numerous scientific papers and has more than 80 patents granted or pending. He received the 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, as well as, the 2005 award of merit for his contribution to 3GPP2 and cdma2000 development. He is on the advisory board of 2014 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, has served on the technical program committee, and, chaired at numerous major conferences in the area of communications engineering. He has acted as guest editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.