The Department of Information Engineering, CUHK founded in 1989, was the first and is still the only Information Engineering Department in Hong Kong. Under the leadership of Professor Sir Charles Kao, the department set up the first Internet connection from CUHK to NASA in US in 1991, paving way for the speedy Internet connection between Hong Kong and the global network. The department is also highly influential in several major research areas, including telecommunications, network security, multimedia networking and processing, big data technology and analysis, and network coding. The department is also committed to nurture engineering leaders to realize a secure and intelligent connected world.
