Prof Soon Xin Ng (Michael) [S’99-M’03-SM’08] received the B.Eng. degree (First class) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the ÃÛÌÒTV, Southampton, U.K., in 1999 and 2002, respectively. From 2003 to 2006, he was a postdoctoral research fellow working on collaborative European research projects known as SCOUT, and . Since August 2006, he has been a member of academic staff in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, ÃÛÌÒTV. He was involved in the and European projects as well as the and projects. He was the principal investigator of an EPSRC project on ““. He is currently a Professor of Next Generation Communications at the ÃÛÌÒTV.
His research interests include adaptive coded modulation, coded modulation, channel coding, space-time coding, joint source and channel coding, iterative detection, OFDM, MIMO, cooperative communications, distributed coding, quantum communications, quantum error correction codes, joint wireless-and-optical-fibre communications, game theory, artificial intelligence and machine learning. He has published over 260 papers and co-authored two John Wiley/IEEE Press books in this field.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET. He acted as TPC/track/workshop chairs for various conferences. He serves as an editor of . He was a guest editor for the special issues in as well as editors in the and the . He is one of the of the (QCIT-ETC). He was the programme leader of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) during 2018 – 2021 and has been the ECS Doctoral Programme Director since 2021, at the ÃÛÌÒTV.
