Congratulations to Prof Charles Kao being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

2009-10-08

Professor Charles K. Kao, our former Vice-Chancellor and founder of Engineering Faculty of CUHK, has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication". A party in celebration of Professor Kao's achievement was held in CUHK on Oct 7. The details could be found here. Professor Kenneth Young, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, quoted the response of Professor Charles Kao towards receiving the Nobel prize as below: “I am absolutely speechless and never expected such an honour. The Nobel has never been given out for applied sciences before. This is very very unexpected. Fiber Optics has changed the world of information so much in these last forty years. It certainly is due to the fiber optical networks that the news has travelled so fast.” A brief profile of Professor Kao could be found here.... [ view ]

New Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Programme in 2010/11

2009-10-02

Starting from the academic year of 2010, the Faculty of Engineering is going to offer a new undergraduate programme in Biomedical Engineering, which is a joint initiative of the Engineering Departments with strong support from the Faculty of Medicine. Today biomedical engineering is pushing the frontiers of science and technology by using electronics, photonics, advanced mechanics and information technology to solve imminent problems in biology and medicine. Our Programme aims at educating the next-generation biomedical engineers with an aspiration of serving the society and advancing healthcare at the interface of engineering, science, and medicine. Details can be found here...... [ view ]

Energy Harvesting Circuit Design Won the Best Paper Award at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA)
2009-07-28 [ view ]

Prof. Liao Wei-Hsin and his PhD student, Mr. Liang Junrui, of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering research on how to transform and collect piezoelectric energy from the living environment into electrical energy. They have successfully designed a circuit for improving the energy harvesting efficiency and won the Best Paper Award (Automation) for the paper entitled ‘An Improved Self-Powered Switching Interface for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting’ at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA). Details could be found here....

CUHK’s Groundbreaking Discovery in Semiconducting Nanowires Advances Nanotechnology
2009-07-20 [ view ]

Research team led by Prof. Xu Jianbin of the Electronic Engineering Department and Prof. Li Quan of the Physics Department revealed for the first time intrinsic ferromagnetic characteristics in semiconducting nanowires in a study published in the current online edition of an internationally-renowned journal, Nature Nanotechnology. The breakthrough is an important step forward in the development of diluted magnetic semiconductors for electronics applications. It opens up a new front in semiconductor physics and nanotechnology, and holds promise to take the development of computer technology to new heights with faster computing speed and larger data storage capacity, but less power consumption. Details could be found here....

Engineering Professor as the First Hong Kong Winner of IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award
2009-06-22 [ view ]

Prof. Huang Jianwei of the Department of Information Engineering received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2009 of the prestigious IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), for his strong publication record and active participation in conference activities over the last three years. Prof. Huang is the only winner from Hong Kong among the 19 individuals who have received the award so far. Details could be found here....

Engineering Professor as the First Asian to Win Best Paper Award at International Flagship Computer Vision Conference
2009-05-27 [ view ]

Prof. Tang Xiaoou and his PhD student, Mr. He Kai-ming, of the Department of Information Engineering and Dr. Sun Jian of Microsoft Research Asia won the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled ‘Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior’ at the prestigious IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009. It is the first time ever Asians receive this top honour since the establishment of the conference 25 years ago. Details could be found here....

Professor Jie Huang has been elected the IFAC Fellow
2009-05-25 [ view ]

Prof. Jie Huang of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering has been elected Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for his ‘contributions in teaching and research on nonlinear control theory and design, and its applications to flight control and guidance, electro-mechanical systems, and neural systems’. This year, nine scholars were conferred worldwide and Prof. Huang is the only one from the Greater China. Details could be found here....

Mrs. Regina Ip talked on
2009-03-12 [ view ]

The Faculty of Engineering held its Annual Awards Presentation Ceremony 2009 on March 7, 2009 to present the prizes and awards received by its teachers, students, and staff achievers last year. It is the great pleasure and honour of the Faculty to have The Honourable Mrs. Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, GBS, JP, Member of the Legislative Council, to be the Guest of Honour of the Ceremony this year to give an address and to present the prizes. The topic of Mrs. Ip's address is on " Innovative Economy". With the kind permission of Mrs. Ip, a copy of her slides on similar topic is posted here for those who are interested. The delightful moments of the Ceremony were also captured in the photos shown here....

CUHK Engineering Professors has just won the ICT Awards
2009-02-12 [ view ]

Both of the "Non-contact Electro-cardiogram Monitoring Bedsheet' and "Health Shirt" developed by the research team under Professor Zhang Yuan-ting of the Faculty of Engineering has just won the Best Lifestyle Gold Award (Home Life and Healthy Living) from the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2008. Two other professors from the Faculty are also on the ICT awardees list. Professor Charlie Wang's "From Styling Design to Fabricated Wetsuit" won the Best Lifestyle Bronze Award (Work Life and Professional Services). Professor Hui Kin-chuen's "Sustainability Voyage" also won the Best Digital Entertainment (Digital Entertainment Software) Certificate of Merit. Details could be found here....

Two More Professors from the Faculty have been awarded the prestigious IEEE Fellows in 2009
2009-01-16 [ view ]

Prof. Liu Yun-hui and Prof. Tang Xiao-ou of The Faculty of Engineering have been elected Fellows of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2009 for their extraordinary accomplishments in their respective research areas: (1) Prof. Liu Yun-hui (Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering) - for contributions to robotic multi-fingered grasping and adaptive visual servo systems. (2) Prof. Tang Xiao-ou (Department of Information Engineering) - for contributions to pattern recognition and video processing. This year, 302 scholars were elected IEEE fellows worldwide. With the two newly-elected fellows, there is a total of 23 current teaching and emeritus/honorary professors of the Faculty who are IEEE Fellows. Details of the news could be found here. Congratulations to Prof. Liu and Prof. Tang!...