Lim Yong Ching received the A.C.G.I. and B.Sc. degrees in 1977 and the D.I.C. and Ph.D. degrees in 1980, all in electrical engineering, from Imperial College, London, U.K.

From 1980 to 1982, he was a National Research Council Research Associate in the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He was with National University of Singapore from 1982 to 2003. Since 2003, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. His research interests include digital signal processing and VLSI circuits and systems design.

Dr. Lim was selected to receive the 1996 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s Guillemin-Cauer Award, the 1990 IREE ( Australia) Norman Hayes Memorial Award, 1977 IEE (UK) Prize and the 1974–77 Siemens Memorial ( Imperial College) Award.

Dr. Lim served as a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2001 to 2002, an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems from 1991 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2001, and for Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing from 1993 to 2000. He served as the Chairman of the DSP Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 1998 to 2000. He served in the Technical Program Committee’s DSP Track as the Track Chair in ISCAS’97 and ISCAS’00 and as a Track Co-chair in ISCAS’99.

Dr. Lim is a Fellow of the IEEE.