- Senior Research Fellowship in 2001 at City University of Hong Kong
Professor Luk was born and educated in Hong Kong. He received his B.Sc.(Eng.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from HKU in 1981 and 1985, respectively. He was Head of Department of Electronic Engineering and Director of State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves at the City University of Hong Kong.
Professor Luk is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, IEEE, IET, CIE, FEA, HKIE and Electromagnetics Academy. He received the Japan Microwave Prize at the Asia Pacific Microwave Conference in 1994, the Applied Research Excellence Award of City University of Hong Kong in 2001, the Croucher Award of Hong Kong in 2003, the Best Student Paper Awards (with his students) at the Asia Pacific Microwave Conferences in 2005 and 2006, the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation in 2008, the State Technological Invention Award of China (2nd Honor) in 2012, Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in 2019, and the 14th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize in 2022.
He was conferred the CityU Outstanding Research Award 2017 in recognition of his exceptionally outstanding research achievements. He has been conferred the prestigious IEEE AP-S John Kraus Antenna Award for his contributions to the invention of L-shaped Probe Fed Microstrip Antenna and the Magneto-electric Dipole Antenna for Wireless Communications.
Professor Luk was the chief guest editor of the special issue on “Antennas in Wireless Communications” for Proceedings of the IEEE in 2012, and the special issue on "Advanced Antennas for Wireless Connectivity" for Engineering in 2022. He is deputy editor-in-chief of PIERS journals.
Currently
His recent research interests include design of wideband patch antennas, dielectric resonator antennas, microwave and antenna measurements, and millimeter wave technologies. He is the author of 4 books, 11 research book chapters, over 400 journal papers and 280 conference papers. He was awarded 15 US patents and over 10 PRC patents on the designs of various printed antennas.