Ross
MURCH
穆 樂 思
PhD, Univ of Canterbury
Fellow, IEEE, IET & HKIE
Prof. Murch is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study both at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His current research interests include Internet-of-Things, RF imaging, ambient RF systems, energy harvesting, multiport antenna systems and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. His unique expertise lies in his combination of knowledge from both wireless communication systems and electromagnetic areas and he is the only author worldwide with more than 25 journal papers in each of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. More generally his research can be described as creating new RF wave technology for making a better world. He has successfully supervised over 50 research graduate student and his research contributions include more than 300 papers and 20 patents.
He was Department Head at HKUST from 2009-2015, is an IEEE, IET, HKIE Fellow and has won several awards including the Computer Simulation Technology (CST) University Publication Award. He has been a David Bensted Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Canada, an HKTIIT fellow at Southampton University, UK and has spent sabbaticals at MIT, USA; AT&T, USA; Allgon Mobile Communications, Sweden; Imperial College London, He has served IEEE in various positions including IEEE area editor, technical program chair, distinguished lecturer and Fellow evaluation committee. He enjoys teaching and has won three teaching awards.
He received his Bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.