Dr. Cheung Nim-kwan
Chief Executive Officer

Before joining ASTRI, Dr. Cheung Nim-kwan was Executive Consultant of Telcordia Technologies in the U.S. and President of the international IEEE Communications Society in 2006 and 2007.

After receiving his B.Sc. (General) and B.Sc. (Special) degrees, both with First Class Honours, from the University of Hong Kong in 1969 and 1970 respectively, Dr. Cheung pursued further studies at the California Institute of Technology in the U.S., where he received his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1976. He is Fellow of IEEE and Telcordia Technologies.

He joined Bell Laboratories upon his graduation to conduct pioneering research in innovative single-mode fiber optic systems. In 1984, he became District Manager of Advanced Lightwave Technology in Bell communications Research, where he created three world-class research programmes in high-speed, coherent, and subcarrier-multiplex lightwave systems. In 1999, Dr. Cheung became Vice President of Applied Research Government Programme in Telcordia Technologies. Under his leadership, the Government-funded research programme portfolio grew at double-digit rate per year.

Since 2004, Dr. Cheung has been serving as a Consulting Professor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He has also served on the Electrical Engineering advisory boards of Columbia University, Polytechnic University of New York, and New Jersey Institute of Technology.

In 2005, Dr. Cheung was elected the 18th President of the IEEE Communications Society, which is an international professional organization with 45,000 members in 180 chapters around the world. After completing his term, he served as immediate Past President of the Society to provide assistance to the President.

Dr. Cheung has published over 150 journal publications, and has served in different editorial positions, including Editor-in-Chief of the renowned IEEE Communications Magazine.