Matthew McKay

Affiliation:

Assistant Professor

Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Clear Water Bay, Kowloon,

Hong Kong

 

Phone: +852 2358 5035

Fax: +852 2358 1485

Home Page:

http://ihome.ust.hk/~eemckay/

Biography:

Matthew R. McKay (S'03, M'07) received the combined B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and B.IT. degree in Computer Science from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2006.  He then worked as a Research Scientist at the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia, prior to joining the faculty at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2007, where he is currently an Assistant Professor.  He is also a member of the Center for Wireless Information Technology at HKUST.  His research interests include communications and signal processing; in particular the analysis and design of MIMO systems, random matrix theory, information theory, and wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks.

He was awarded a 2006 Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ICASSP'06, and was jointly awarded the 2006 Best Student Paper Award at IEEE VTC'06-Spring.  He was also awarded the University Medal upon graduating from the Queensland University of Technology.

Research Interests:

• Communications
• Detection and Estimation

Participation & Positions:

Hong Kong Section Chapter (Chair, 2011)