Victor On-kwok Li

{{short description|American Hong Kong academic (born 1954)}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = LI, On-kwok, Victor

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1954|10|11}}

| birth_place = Hong Kong

| nationality = Hong Kong
United States

| other_names = {{nowrap|李安国 (Li On-kwok)}}, {{nowrap|Victor Li On-kwok}}, {{nowrap|Victor Li}}

| workplaces = Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong 1997-present)
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California (1981-1997)

| occupation = Chair Professor of Information Engineering, University of Hong Kong

Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong

| fields = Information technology
Renewable energy
Social network
Wireless network
Mathematical optimization

| awards = Government of Hong Kong Bronze Bauhinia Star, 2001

| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| doctoral_advisor = Wilbur Davenport

| doctoral_students = Wanjiun Liao

}}

Professor Victor On-kwok Li (born October 11, 1954) is an American Hong Kong academic.University of Hong Kong, [http://www.eee.hku.hk/people/vli.html Prof. Victor O.K. Li] He is best known for his contributions to the development of Information technology. He received the Government of Hong Kong Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2001,Government of Hong Kong, [http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201007/01/P201006300338.htm List Bronze Hauhinia Star Recipient, 2001] and he is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Prof. Li is currently chair professor and head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He also serves as Managing Director of Versitech Ltd.[http://www.versitech.hku.hk/about/versitech#j About Us, Versitech Ltd.] He is also on the boards of SUNeVision Ltd., China.com Ltd.,[http://www.inc.china.com China.com Ltd.] and Anxin-China Holding Ltd.[http://www.anxin-china.com Anxin-China Holding Ltd.] Prof. Li also chairs the Executive Committee, HKU Initiative on Clean Energy and Environment.[http://icee.hku.hk/index/index.html HKU Initiative on Clean Energy and Environment]

From 2007 to 2012, he served as Associate Dean of Engineering at HKU. Before joining HKU in 1997, he was a professor of electrical engineering (EE) at the University of Southern California (USC) and director of Communication Sciences Institute of USC. He chaired the Computer Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society from 1987 to 1989, and the Los Angeles Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Group from 1983 to 1985.

Prof. Li's doctoral adviser was Prof. Wilbur Davenport,[http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15878 Victor O.K. Li, "Performance Models of Distributed Database Systems," Thesis (Sc.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981] who was a student of Prof. Robert Fano.