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Personal profile
Biography
Francis C. M. Lau received the BEng (Hons) degree in electrical and electronic engineering and the PhD degree from King’s College London, University of London, UK. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET. He is the co-author of two research monographs and a co-holder of five US patents and one pending US patent. He has published over 320 papers. His main research interests include channel coding, cooperative networks, wireless sensor networks, chaos-based digital communications, applications of complex-network theories, and wireless communications.
He served as an associate editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II (2004-2005, 2016-2019), IEEE CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS MAGAZINE (2012-2015), and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I (2006-2007); guest editor of IEEE Access, Special Section: Advances in Channel Coding for 5G and Beyond (2018). He has been a guest associate editor of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL AND BIFURCATION AND CHAOS since 2010. He was the General Co-chair of International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing, 2018.
Research interests
- Chaos-based digital communications
- Low-density parity-check code and turbo codes
- Physical-layer network coding
- Cooperative communication networks
- Wireless sensor networks
- Wireless communications
- Applications of complex-network theories to communications.
Education/Academic qualification
Bachelor of Engineering, University of London
Doctor of Philosophy, University of London
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Research output
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An Improved Frameless ALOHA Scheme With Feedback Strategy
Zhang, Y., Zhao, L., Zhao, Y., Lau, F. C. M., Yu, H., Zhu, Z. & Zhang, B., Jan 2025, In: IEEE Communications Letters. 29, 3, p. 605-609 5 p.Research output: Journal article publication › Journal article › Academic research › peer-review
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DATA STORAGE USING PEPTIDES
Yao, Z. (Inventor), Ng, C. C. (Inventor), Lau, C. M. (Inventor) & Tam, W. M. (Inventor), 2025, Patent No. EP3776557, 6 Dec 2018Research output: Patents, agreements, assignments and companies › Patents granted
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Handover-Aware Trajectory Optimization for Cellular-Connected UAV
Du, X., Zhang, S. & Lau, F. C. M., Feb 2025, In: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 14, 7, p. 1849-1853 5 p.Research output: Journal article publication › Journal article › Academic research › peer-review
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Sequencing Data-Encoded Peptides from Tandem Mass Spectra
Yao, Z. (Inventor), Ng, C. C. (Inventor), Lau, C. M. (Inventor) & Tam, W. M. (Inventor), 2025, Patent No. EP4261826, 10 Apr 2023Research output: Patents, agreements, assignments and companies › Patents granted
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使用肽的数据存储
Yao, Z. (Inventor), Ng, C. C. (Inventor), Lau, C. M. (Inventor) & Tam, W. M. (Inventor), 2025, Patent No. ZL 2018800946414, 12 Dec 2018Research output: Patents, agreements, assignments and companies › Patents granted
Prizes
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3rd Place, FPGA Trax Design Competition
LU, Q. (Recipient), SHAM, C. W. (Recipient) & Lau, C. M. (Recipient), Dec 2015
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Best Paper Award
LU, Q. (Recipient), SHEN, Z. (Recipient), SHAM, C. W. (Recipient) & Lau, C. M. (Recipient), Oct 2015
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Best Paper Award, 2017
Lau, C. M. (Recipient) & Tam, W. M. (Recipient), Oct 2017
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Best Paper Award for the paper “An Efficient Data Collecting Network Structure in Wireless Sensor Networks” IEEE International Conference on Communication Circuits and Systems
Tse, C. K. (Recipient), Lau, C. M. (Recipient) & CHENG, C. T. (Recipient), May 2008
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Best Paper Award for the paper “Construction of High‐Rate QC‐LDPC Codes”
Lau, C. M. (Recipient) & CHEN, X. (Recipient), Aug 2011
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Achieving reliable communications under a very low signal-to-noise ratio
Lau, C. M. (Invited speaker)
Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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A new type of ultimate-Shannon-limit channel codes
Lau, F. C. M. (Invited speaker)
2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Data storage using peptide sequences
Lau, F. C. M. (Keynote speaker)
Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Japan Joint Chapter (External organisation)
Lau, F. (Member)
Jan 2022 → Jan 2023Activity: Office holder / membership of professional bodies › Office holder / member of committee
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IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs (Journal)
Lau, C. M. (Associate editor)
2016 → 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work for journals