Peter H. J. Chong received the B.Eng. (with distinction) in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Canada, in 1993, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 1996 and 2000, respectively.
 
Between July 2000 and January 2001, he worked in the Advanced Networks Division at Agilent Technologies Canada Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada. From February 2001 to May 2002, he was with the Radio Communications Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland, and was involved in research on WCDMA and standardization for HSDPA. During his stay in Finland, he has taught part of a graduate course in WCDMA at the Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland. Since May 2002, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he is now an Associate Professor (Tenured). He is currently an Assistant Head of Division of Communication Engineering. He has visited Tohoku University, Japan, as a Visiting Scientist in 2010 and Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, between 2011 and 2012. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of CUHK.
 
He was TPC Co-Chair of IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON) 2012 and General Chair of International Conference on Information, Communications, and Signal Processing (ICICS) 2013. He served as a lead Guest Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine in 2007 and IEEE Wireless Communications in 2011. He is an Editorial Board Member of Security and Communication Networks, International Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking, Wireless Sensor Network, and an Editor of Far East Journal of Electronics and Communications, and KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems. His research interests are in the areas of mobile communications systems including radio resource management, multiple access, MANETs, multihop cellular networks and green radio networks.