
Professor Emeritus
Electronic and Computer Engineering
Chin-Tau Lea received a B.S and a M.S. degree from the National Taiwan University in 1976 and 1978, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1982, all in electrical engineering. He is now a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology which he joined in 1996. Prior to that, he was with AT&T Bell Labs from 1982 to 1985 and with the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1985 to 1995.
Last updated: 4/10/2026