Hing Cheung So (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Hong Kong. He received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 1995.
From 1990 to 1991, he was an Electronic Engineer with the Research and Development Division, Everex Systems Engineering Ltd., Hong Kong. From 1995 to 1996, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with The Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, where he is a professor. His research interests include detection and estimation, fast and adaptive algorithms, multidimensional harmonic retrieval, robust signal processing, source localization, and sparse approximation.
Dr. So was an Elected Member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, from 2011 to 2016, where he was the Chair of the Awards Subcommittee from 2015 to 2016. He has been on the editorial boards of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine from 2014 to 2017, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2010 to 2014, Signal Processing since 2010, and Digital Signal Processing since 2011. He was also the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, special issue on Advances in Time/Frequency Modulated Array Signal Processing in 2017.