• School of Humanities & Social Science

    • Dr HOU Yun, Aileen （侯云博士）
    BEng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
    MSc (Imperial)
    PhD (Imperial)
    IEEE Senior Member

    Assistant Professor
    Programme Director of MSc-DSAI Programme
    Department of Computer Science

    Tel : (852) 3963 5770
    Email :
    aileenhou@hsu.edu.hk


    Aileen received her PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, UK in 2009. Before joining HSU, Dr Aileen Hou was an acting assistant and the acting programme leader of the Information and Communications Technology programme of THEi. Before that, she had been conducting applied research in Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) as a Senior Lead Engineer on 3G, 4G and 5G mobile communication systems. She also had working experience in Shenzhen University, IBM and Alcatel-Lucent with research focuses on V2X, Smart City, 5G, Network Optimization and Machine Learning.


    Teaching InterestsResearch InterestsSelected PublicationsResearch Grant
    TopTeaching Interests
    Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Application Development, Internet of Things
    TopResearch Interests
    Vehicular Communication Networks, Optimization, Machine Learning
    TopSelected Publications
    • Y. Alayev, F. Chen, Yun Hou, M. P. Johnson, A. Bar-Noy, T. La Porta, and K. K. Leung, “Throughput Maximization in Mobile WSN Scheduling with Power Control and Rate Selection,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 4066 – 4078, July 2014.
    • A. Maltsev, A. Khoryaev, A. Lomayev, R. Maslennikov, C. Antonopoulos, K. Avgeropoulos, A. Alexiou, F. Boccardi, Yun Hou, K. K. Leung, “MIMO and Multihop Cross-Layer Design for Wireless Backhaul –A Testbed Implementation,” IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 172-179, March 2010.
    • Yun Hou and K. K. Leung, “A Distributed Scheduling Framework for Multi-user Diversity Gain and Quality of Service in Wireless Mesh Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 5904-5915, Dec 2009.
    • Z. Situ, I. W.-H. Ho, Yun Hou, P. Li, “The Feasibility of NOMA in C-V2X,” to appear in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Workshops, July 2020.
    TopResearch Grant
    • 2020, PC/PI of RGC Faculty Development Scheme project on “Distributed Multi-hop C-V2X Self-Optimizing Network” (HKD 1.16 million)
    • 2018, PC/PI of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) Tier 1 project on “V2X communication systems” (HKD 19 million)