B.Eng, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993.

Msc., Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 1995.

Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2000

Kenneth Shum is an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Engineering. He obtained his bachelor degree in the Shatin campus of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Master and PhD degree in University of Southern California. His main research area is information and coding theory. The research method usually involves algebra, combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory. In recent years he has been doing research on the design and analysis of encoding schemes for storing data in a networked system. The data encoding scheme is able to recover the lost data in failed hard disks, and thereby enhance the error tolerance in a large-scale cloud storage system.

1. H. Hou, Y. S. Han, K. W. Shum and H. Li, A Unified Form of EVENODD and RDP Codes and Their Efficient Decoding, IEEE Trans. Comm., 2018.
2. B. Zhu, K. W. Shum and H. Li, On the Duality and File Size Hierarchy of Fractional Repetition Codes, The Computer Journal, 2018.
3. X. Gong, P. Hu, K. W. Shum and C. W. Sung, A zigzag-decodable secret sharing scheme, IEEE Trans. Inform. Forensics and Security, 2018.
4. Y. Chen, Y.-H. Lo, K. W. Shum, W. S. Wong and Y. Zhang, CRT sequences with application to collision channels allowing successive interference cancellation, IEEE Trans. Information Theory, 2018.