Ke-Lin Du, PhD 1998, IEEE Senior Member 2009

Founder, Xonlink Inc., Ningbo, China

Affiliate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

K.-L. Du received the PhD in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1998. He founded Xonlink Inc., Ningbo, China in 2014. He was Chief Scientist at Enjoyor Inc., Hangzhou, China from 2012 to 2014. He was on research staff at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada from 2001 to 2010. Prior to 2001, he was on technical staff with Huawei Technologies, China Academy of Telecommunication Technology, and Chinese University of Hong Kong. He visited Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008.

   Dr. Du has authored four books (Neural Networks in a Softcomputing Framework, Springer, London, 2006; Wireless Communication Systems, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010; Neural Networks and Statistical Learning, Springer, London, 2014; Search and Optimization by Metaheuristics, Springer, 2016). He has also published over 50 papers, and has 4 issued U.S. patents and 28 Chinese patents. Currently, his research interests are signal processing, wireless communications, and machine learning. In the past five years, he has co-supervised 11 MSc students.

   Dr. Du is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is currently an Affiliate Professor at Concordia University. He has been on Editorial Board or been Associate Editor of 10 journals, including IET Signal Processing and Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing. He also serves on the editorial board of the Chinese edition of IEEE Spectrum. He served as member of (technical or) program committee of 33 international conferences. He has reviewed papers for 78 international journals and numerous conferences.