RIAIoT People

Ivan Wang-Hei Ho is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received the B.Eng. and M.Phil. degrees in Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, UK. He worked on the MESSAGE project funded by EPSRC and Department for Transport, UK, and the ITA project funded by the US Army Research Laboratory and UK Ministry of Defence during his Ph.D. studies. In 2007, Ivan spent a summer working at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA. After his Ph.D. graduation, he was with the System Engineering Initiative at Imperial College as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. In Sept 2010, he co-founded P2 Mobile Technologies Limited at Hong Kong Science Park and served as the Chief R&D Engineer. He primarily invented the MeshRanger series wireless mesh embedded system, which won the Silver Award in Best Ubiquitous Networking at the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2012. His work on indoor positioning also received the Gold Medal at the International Trade Fair Ideas and Inventions New Products (iENA) in Germany in 2019. Ivan is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and was the TPC Co-chair for the PERSIST-IoT Workshop in conjunction with ACM MobiHoc 2019 and IEEE INFOCOM 2020. His research interests are in wireless communications and networking, specifically in vehicular networks, intelligent transportation systems, Internet of things, and network coding.

• Bachelor of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Master of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of London