Dr Chee Yen (Bruce) Leow is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and a Research Fellow with the Wireless Communication Centre, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He obtained a PhD degree in Wireless Communications from Imperial College London in September 2011 and a B.Eng. degree in Computer Engineering from UTM in June 2007. Dr. Leow is a registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the Engineering Council UK and a Professional Technologist of the Malaysia Board of Technologists.

Dr. Leow’s current research interest includes beyond 5G topics such as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, non-orthogonal multiple access, UAV communication, vehicular to everything (V2X) communications and prototype development using software defined radio, for beyond 5G and Internet of Things applications. He has published over 115 scientific articles related to 4G, 5G and beyond. His IEEE journal papers won the IEEE Malaysia Comsoc/VTS Joint Chapter’s Best Paper Awards 2016, 2017, 2021,2022 and IEEE Malaysia AP/MTT/EMC Joint Chapter’s Best Paper Awards 2017, 2018, and 2020, 2022. He was among the pioneers for 5G initiatives in Malaysia to promote 5G R&D collaboration between industry and academia since 2014. He served as the Secretary for IMT and Future Networks Working Group under the Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Berhad since 2018 to develop technical codes and to accelerate the adoption of 5G IMT-2020 in Malaysia. He recently represented Malaysia to participate in the ITU-R Working Party 5D meetings. He is currently the chair of the IEEE Malaysia Communications Society and Vehicular Technology Society Joint Chapter. In addition, he regularly conducts short courses on 5G and IoT and offers consultation services for the telecommunication industry.