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Tony Quek

QUEK Tony

Head of Pillar (ISTD), Director (FCP), Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor
EMAIL
tonyquek
sutd.edu.sg
WEBSITE
OFFICE
1.502.15
CONTACT
+65 6499 4573
RESEARCH AREAS
Artificial and Augmented Intelligence
Data Science
Networked and Autonomous Systems

Biography

Tony Q.S. Quek received the BE and ME degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering respectively, from Tokyo Institute of Technology. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned the PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently, he is the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and ST Engineering Distinguished Professor. He also serves as the Director of the Future Communications R&D Programme, the Head of ISTD Pillar, and the AI-on-RAN Working Group Chair in AI-RAN Alliance. He is currently serving as an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He received the 2008 Philip Yeo Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Research, the 2012 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2017 CTTC Early Achievement Award, the 2017 IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2020 Nokia Visiting Professorship, the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and the 2024 IIT Bombay International Award For Excellence in Research in Engineering and Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.
Awards & achievements
  • IEEE Globecom 2024 Best Paper Awards
  • 2024 WWRF Fellow
  • 2024 IIT Bombay International Award For Excellence in Research in Engineering
  • IEEE INFOCOM 2024 Best Demo Paper Award
  • 2022 Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore
  • 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
  • 2020 Nokia Visiting Professorship
  • 2020 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory
  • 2020 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award
  • 2018 IEEE Fellow for contributions to heterogeneous and wireless networks
  • 2017 Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Early Achievement Award
  • 2017 IEEE Communications Society Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Award
  • 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award
  • 2015 SUTD Outstanding Education Awards – Excellence in Research
  • 2012 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize in the Field of Communications Networking
  • Philip Yeo Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Research, 2008
Selected publications
  1. F. Wang, D. Jiang, Z. Wang, L. Huo, and T. Q. S. Quek, “Seamless Handover in LEO Based Non-Terrestrial Networks: Service Continuity and Optimization,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 1008–1023, Feb. 2023.
  2. H. Y. Yang, Z. Chen, T. Q. S. Quek, and H. V. Poor, “Revisiting Analog Over-the-Air Machine Learning: The Blessing and Curse of Interference,” IEEE J. Select. Topics Signal Processing, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 406– 419, Apr. 2022.
  3. K. Wei, J. Li, M. Ding, C. Ma, H. Yang, F. Farokhi, S. Jin, T. Q. S. Quek, and H. V. Poor, “Federated Learning with Differential Privacy: Algorithms and Performance Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Information Forensics, and Security, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 3454–3466, Apr. 2020.
  4. H. Yang, Z. Liu, T. Q. S. Quek, and H. V. Poor, “Scheduling Policies for Federated Learning in Wireless Networks,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 317–333, Jan. 2020.
  5. T. Q. Dinh, J. Tang, Q. D. La, and T. Q. S. Quek, “Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing: Task Allocation and Computational Frequency Scaling,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 65, no. 8, pp. 3571–3584, Aug. 2017.
  6. Z. Chen, J. Lee, T. Q. S. Quek, and M. Kountouris, “Cooperative Caching and Transmission Design in Cluster-Centric Small Cell Networks,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 3401–3415, May 2017.
  7. D. Lopez-Perez, I. Guvenc, G. de la Roche, M. Kountouris, T. Q. S. Quek, and J. Zhang, “Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination Challenges in Heterogeneous Networks,” IEEE Wireless Commun. Mag., vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 22–30, Jun. 2011.
  8. A. Rabbachin, T. Q. S. Quek, H. Shin, and M. Z. Win, “Cognitive Network Interference,” IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 480–493, Feb. 2011.
Research areas
  • Wireless communications and networking
  • Network intelligence and AI-RAN
  • Non-terrestrial networks
  • Open radio access networks
  • 6G