K. C. Ho was born in Hong Kong. He received the B.Sc. degree with First Class Honours in Electronics and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 1988 and 1991, respectively.
He was a research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada from 1991 to 1994. He joined the Bell-Northern Research in 1995 as a member of scientific staff. He was a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada from September 1996 to August 1997. Since September 1997, he has been with the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he is presently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada. His research interests are in statistical signal processing, source localization, wavelet transform, wireless communications, and the development efficient adaptive signal processing algorithms for various applications including echo cancellation, equalization, time delay estimation and system identification. He has been very active in the research of landmine detection since 2000. He has been participating in the development of the ITU recommendation G.168: Digital Network Echo Cancellers since 1995. He is currently the editor of the ITU Recommendation G.168.
Dr. Ho is a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Ho is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He has received three patents from the United States in the area of telecommunications.