Wai Pang Ng (S’99-M’01-SM’08 IEEE) received his BEng (Hons) in Communications and Electronic Engineering, from the University of Northumbria, U.K. and his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from University of Wales, Swansea. He is a Chartered Engineer, ECUK since 2005.

He is currently Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor for International and Educational Partnerships in the Faculty of Science and Environment and Professor in Electrical Engineering at Northumbria University, UK. From 2023 to 2025, he was Head of Department in the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor (2017-2022), Reader (2011-2017) and Senior Lecturer (2004-2011). He has worked as Senior Networking Software Engineer at Intel Corporation.

Prof Ng is PI of grants worth more than £1.6M and has published over 150 publications in journals and conferences.

Prof Ng was the Chair of IEEE UK&RI Communications Chapter (2011-2015) and the Publicity Chair of IEEE ICC2015 and ICC2016. He has also served as Guest Editor for IET Communications. He was Symposium Co-Chair of Signal Processing for Communications Symposium at ICC 2009, Technical Chair of CSNDSP 2010, Technical Chair of NOC/OC&I 2011, and TPC members for numerous international conferences including GLOBECOM and ICC since 2006. He is also a member of SPCE TC, TCGCC, ONTC and FiWi Sub-TC.

Wai Pang Ng's research interests include radio-over-fiber, cognitive radio, high speed optical communications, adaptive digital signal processing and distributed fibre sensing.