Ross MURCH 穆樂思

Professor Ross Murch (S'84-M'90-SM'98-F'09) is a Chair Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Electromagnetics, Antennas and Propagation (JSTEAP) which was launched in January 2025. He has served as the Department Head in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at HKUST for two 3 year terms between 2009 and 2015 and also as the founding Director of the Center for Wireless Information Technology from 1997-2001. He is currently serving as the Chair of the Senate Research Committee.

Professor Murch is known for his research on multiple antenna technology including multiuser-MIMO, compact multiport antennas and multiport energy harvesting. His current research focus is creating new RF wave technology for making a better world and this includes RF imaging, multiport antenna systems, energy harvesting, 6G, electromagnetic information theory, IoT, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and ambient RF systems. Professor Murch has unique intradisciplinary research expertise that spans both electromagnetics and wireless communication systems and he publishes widely in both areas. For example, he has published 50+ journal papers in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and 50+ journal papers in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications with over 200 IEEE journal paper publications in total. He is also the inventor of 20+ patents while successfully supervising more than 50 research students. In 2026 he was the co-recipient of the 2026 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award, in 2023 he received the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee Recognition Award and he is also a Fellow of IEEE, IET, HKAE, INAE, NASI and HKIE. Professor Murch also has a strong interest in education, enjoys teaching and has received 6 teaching awards.

Professor Murch has served as Area Editor, Associate Editor and Publication Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He has also served as an Editor for special issues of the IEEE Proceedings and the IEEE Journal on Selected areas of Communications. He was also a Chair of the IEEE Communications Society technical committee on wireless communications, a member of the IEEE Communications Society Fellow Evaluation Committee and a member of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications steering committee. He has also been the Technical Program Chair for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conferences in 2019 and 2007, Keynote Chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2010, and also the Technical Program Chair for the Advanced Wireless Communications Systems Symposium in IEEE International Communications Conference in 2002.

He has held visiting positions at distinguished intuitions worldwide. He has been a David Bensted Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Canada, an HKTIIT fellow at Southampton University, UK and has spent sabbaticals at MIT, USA; AT&T, USA; Allgon Mobile Communications, Sweden; Imperial College London, UK. He was also a keynote speaker at iWat 2026, APCAP 2023, Marina Forum 2023, Distinguished Invited Speaker at WCNC 2016, a keynote speaker at IEEE ICCT 2011, IEEE APWC 2008, IEEE GCC 2007 and IEEE WiCOM 2007 and a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

Professor Murch joined HKUST in 1992 as an Assistant Professor and has remained at HKUST in Hong Kong since then, where he is now a Chair Professor. From 1990-1992 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Dundee, UK. He received his BE and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.