Matthew Robert MCKAY
Adjunct Professor
Electronic and Computer Engineering
About
Matthew McKay (S’03-M’07-SM’13) received the combined B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and the 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 2007. He is currently a Full Visiting Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Previously, at the Associate Professor rank, he held the Hari Harilela Endowed Chair. Matthew was a Research Scientist with the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, and with the Department of Statistics at Stanford University in 2015. His research interests include communications and signal processing, random matrix theory, high-dimensional statistics, financial engineering, and computational biology/immunology.
Research Interests
Signal processingHigh-dimensional statistics and random matrix theoryWireless communicationsComputational biologyFinancial engineering
Last updated: 4/10/2026