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2018-08-28
Information Engineering Team Discovers Vulnerabilities of Single Sign Code
A team of the Department of Information Engineering has recently won the third place of the 2018 Internet Defense Prize and a research grant of US$40,000 funded by Facebook at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium held in the US. Their award was for their contribution to the critical analysis of the ... -
2018-08-08
MIE Student Wins Bronze Award of the ASM Technology Competition
Mr. Ng Ka Lok from Mathematics and Information Engineering Programme has won the Bronze Award of the ASM Technology Competition with his project titled “A Secure Deep Neural Network Framework with Trusted Processors”. He received a scholarship award of $20,000 and an invitation to a Technology Tour to Munich, Germany arranged by ASM in ... -
2018-06-27
Engineering Students Receive Championship on PwC HackaDay
A team of students has won championship on the PwC HackaDay 2018. It was the second time CUHK students shone in the same hacking competition for two consecutive years. HackaDay is a CTF cybersecurity contest for undergraduate students from universities in Hong Kong, which aimed at increasing the general awareness of the importance of ... -
2018-05-17
Prof. Raymond Yeung Develops BATS Code for Efficient Network Transmission
A research team led by *Prof. Raymond W. Yeung*, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding (INC) at CUHK, has invented *BATched Sparse code (BATS code)* to improve the network transmission rate of networks with packet loss. It is one of the world’s ... -
2018-04-30
Engineering Students Receive Championship at Hacking Contest
A team of students has won in the VXCTF 2018, a Capture-the-Flag (CTF) hacking contest hosted by the international hacker conference VXCON in Hong Kong. During the competition, participants were required to exercise different skillsets in Information Security and Computer Science for challenges including web, cryptography, reverse ... -
2018-04-09
Information Engineering Professor's Paper Selected for 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
The paper titled “Network Information Flow” is among those selected for 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award. This year, there are a total of six selected papers for this award. Rudolf Ahlswede, Ning Cai, Shuo-Yen Robert Li and Raymond W. Yeung, “Network Information Flow,” 46(4), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, ... -
2018-01-22
Faculty of Engineering Holds Technology Forum to Explore the Future Possibilities of AI
The Centre for Innovation and Technology (CINTEC), Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) held a technology forum titled ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) Over Humans?’ today (18 January 2018), drawing over 500 technology leaders, experts, researchers and government officials to discuss the future possibilities ... -
2018-01-04
Three Engineering Professors Elected IEEE Fellows 2018
Prof. Jiaya Jia, Prof. Chandra Nair and Prof. Jianbin Xu from the Faculty of Engineering have been elected Fellows of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the class of 2018, for their remarkable accomplishments in “deblurring techniques in computational photography”, “network information theory” ... -
2017-09-28
Major Security Loophole in Mobile Payment Systems Discovered by Department of Information Engineering
The System Security Lab, led by Prof. Kehuan ZHANG from the Department of Information Engineering has analyzed various major mobile payment systems for their security vulnerabilities, and discovered a major loophole. The finding has caused a large third party payment platform in mainland China to promptly implement new security measures ... -
2017-08-03
CUHK and TCL Establish Collaboration in AI and Big Data Research
The Chinese University of Hong Kong and TCL Corporation Ltd (TCL) have entered a new era of collaboration by signing a strategic partnership agreement on 2 August 2017. Both parties are committed to promoting research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data. The agreement will foster closer engineering collaboration between CUHK ...
