Cheuk-Yu Edward Tong

Cheuk-Yu Edward Tong (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique, Grenoble, France. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Applied Superconductivity Research Group, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, which is currently known as NICT. In the past 30 years, he has been with Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA, where he is currently involved with the development of receivers for the Submillimeter Array, a submillimeter interferometer on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. His research interests include superconducting receivers, terahertz technology, low-noise receiver systems, and microwave measurement methods.