Dr Lawrence Ong

Biography

Lawrence Ong received the BEng degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2001. He subsequently received the MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2004 and the PhD degree from NUS in 2008.

Lawrence Ong was with MobileOne, Singapore, as a system engineer from 2001 to 2002. He was a research fellow at NUS, from 2007 to 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Newcastle, Australia.

In 2012, Lawrence Ong was awarded the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) [success rate: 12.8%] by the Australian Research Council (ARC). He is currently a DECRA fellow at The University of Newcastle.

The latest list of his publications (including submitted papers) can be found at his homepage: http://www.lawrenceong.com

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Singapore, 2008
• Master of Philosophy, University of Cambridge - UK, 2004

Research

Research keywords

• Capacity
• Coding
• Data
• Information theory
• Multiterminal communications
• Network information theory
• Networking
• Wireless Communications

Research expertise

Information theory, multiterminal communications, and networking.

Collaboration

My research collaborators include Chin Keong Ho from Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore), and Roy Timo and Gottfried Lechner from the University of South Australia (Australia).

Languages

• Cantonese
• Chinese
• English
• Malay
• Mandarin

Fields of Research

Centres and Groups

Centre

Memberships

Other

• Member - IEEE (communication society and information theory society)

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Communications
• Electrical Engineering
• Information theory
• Wireless communications