The research paper "PEV-based Reactive Power Compensation for Wind DG Units: A Stackelberg Game Approach," by Chenye Wu, Prof. Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, Prof. Jianwei Huang received the IEEE SmartGridComm 2012 Best Paper Award. IEEE SmartGridComm is the official international conference supported by IEEE Communication Society in the interdisciplinary area of telecommunications, networking, and smart grid....

Dean of Engineering Professor C. P. Wong is selected to receive the 2012 Dresden Barkhausen Award. The Dresden Barkhausen Award is granted for outstanding scientific results in applied research and development at frontier areas between physics, materials science, and electrical engineering.

The award is granted by the Material Research Network Dresden (MFD), the Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing Dresden and the University of Technology Dresden in memorial of Professor Heinrich Barkhausen who acted as a faculty for Electrical Engineering in Dresden from 1911 to 1953....

Prof. Wu Ke Li and his postgraduate students, Hu Hai and Meng Huan, Department of Electronic Engineering, have received 2012 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) Best Paper Award on 6 December 2012 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The paper titled "Waveguide dual-mode filter in extended box topology for general asymmetric transfer characteristics"....

Prof. Bai Chunli, President of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) visited the CUHK on 23 November 2012. The aim of this visit was to receive updates of CUHK, renew the collaboration agreement between the two parties and to enhance mutual understanding for sustainable partnership development.

The delegation was warmly received by Prof. Joseph Sung, Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Benjamin Wah, Provost; Prof. Jack Cheng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor; Prof. Henry Wong, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Science...

Prof. Charlie Wang (Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK) and Prof. Matthew Yuen (Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKUST) have received the Natural Science Award (2nd Class) of the 2012 Ministry of Education (MOE) Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award together with Prof. Matthew Yuen for the project of “Research of Semantic Feature Based 3D Garment Design”....

Seventeen engineering professors have been named fellows of the Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE) recently, breaking the record for the number of fellows awarded by HKIE at one time. Fellow is the highest class of membership in the HKIE to recognize those who have achieved positions of responsibility to which he/she has brought superior knowledge and practice in an engineering discipline. The seventeen professors will join hands with the HKIE to promote the local advancement of engineering....

Two more engineering professors have been elected 2013 fellows of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Prof. Yum Tak-Shing from the Department of Information Engineering was named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the architecture and resource management of communication networks. Prof. Helen Meng Mei-Ling from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management was recognized by IEEE for her for contributions to spoken language and multimodal systems.

The IEEE is the world's largest professional organization, with more than 400,000 members in over 160 countries. IEEE members play a vital role in computer science, electronics, telecommunications and engineering fields etc. Fellowship is the highest grade of membership and one of the most prestigious honours the IEEE can bestow upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

Congratulations to Prof. Yum and Prof. Meng on their prestigious accomplishments....

Prof. Jun Wang, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, has been selected for award of Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) for his “contributions to neurodynamics and its applications”. This is part of the remit of the IAPR which concerns pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in the broadest sense, with applications reflecting many areas of topical interest in our advanced society such as including autonomous navigation, medical imaging and analysis, financial intelligence analysis, biometrics, and automated document analysis....

A team of three students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Xing WEI, Tak Kei LAM, and Yi DIAO, supervised by Prof. Yu-Liang David WU won the first place of the ICCAD 2012 International CAD Contest on the topic of Functional ECO....

Ng Tsz Ming, a Computer Science Year 2 student, won the champion in the tertiary section of "Safe and Sustainable Transportation for Tomorrow" Paper Competition organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Tsz Ming's paper titled "Optimized Route-Planning System (ORPS)"....