Staff Achievements

EE Chair Professor honored with Honorary Professorship from the Northeastern University in Liaoning, China

Prof Ron Chen received the honorary professorship from the Northeastern University in Liaoning, China on 24 May 2008. In recent years, Prof Chen has been receiving different conferments for recognizing his contributions to science and technology, and his efforts invested to train good researchers and technical people in various universities. In addition to the honorary professorship from Northeastern University, he is also Guest-Chair Professor of Tsinghua University, Cheung Kong (Chang Jiang) Chair Professor of Peking University, and Honorary Professor of Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, among others.

EE Chair Professor honored with Consultant Professorship from Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Prof Y C Chan, our Chair Professor, has been appointed the Consultant Professor by the Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a 3-year term from May 2008 to May 2011.

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2008 Best Paper Award

Prof Keith Q T Zhang has won one of the six WCNC 2008 Best Paper Awards for his paper "On Energy Spreading Transform Based MIMO Systems: Capacity and Diversity". Other three joint authors are Prof Pingyi Fan and a master student Mr Feng Han from the Tsinghua University, and Prof K. B. Letaief from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) is one of the world's foremost international technical conferences for engineers and researchers at the forefront of development and deployment of wireless technologies.

Best Paper Award in the National Microwave and Millimeter-wave Conference 2007

Dr. Xue Quan, our Associate Professor and his PhD student, Mr. Jianxin Chen have clutched the Best Paper Award in the National Microwave and Millimeter-wave Conference 2007 for their paper "Out-of-phase power divider based on DSPSL". The Conference is held every two years in China. This year, 560 papers have been received, among which, 460 were accepted and 6 were selected for the Best Paper Award.

EE Chair Professor honored with Honorary Professorship from Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

Professor Guanrong Chen, our Chair Professor, has received the honorary professorship from Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. This conferment is to recognize his contributions to science and his efforts invested to train good researchers and technical people in the university.

EE Chair Professor honored with Chang Jiang Chair Professorship

Prof K S Chiang, our Chair Professor, was appointed the Chang Jiang Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education, PRC in March 2007. This is a part-time appointment which allows Prof Chiang to work in the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu for 9 months in the coming three years. Only about a hundred Chang Jiang Scholars and Professors are appointed in the whole Mainland China each year.

Dr Lin DAI receives Best Paper Award at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

Dr Lin DAI, our newly recruited Assistant Professor, has received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) held during 11-15 March 2007. The paper she presented was entitled 'Selective Relaying in OFDM Multihop Cooperative Networks', the best among the 400 papers presented at the Phy/MAC Track.

EE Professors clutched Silver and Bronze Awards at the Chinese National Exhibition of Inventions

Prof Edward Yung and Dr Xue Quan, our Chair Professor and Associate Professor, have won the Silver Award for their joint project "The Active RFID System" at the first Chinese National Exhibition of Inventions. Professor Hong Yan, again our Chair Professor has won the Bronze Award for his project "Real-time Lip-sync and Facial Animation System" in the same occasion. Winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards were chosen from over 1,500 inventions.

EE receives a grant from Hongkong Electric for wave energy research

Dr Yeung Lam-fat, our Associate Professor, and his research group were awarded a grant of HK$119,000 by the Hongkong Electric Clean Energy Fund in support of the development and research of the project 'Wave Energy Collector'. 12 out of 45 applications from primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary institutes were awarded with funding amounting to over HK$1 million in total. CityU is among the three tertiary institutes that were granted the fund.

CityU-EE receives the highest Competitive Earmarked Research Grants 2006/07 in the electrical and electronic engineering areas in Hong Kong

EE has been awarded $10.46 million for 17 CERG proposals, putting CityU first again in total grant awarded in the electrical and electronic engineering areas. The list of professors whose projects are funded are given below:
Prof C H Chan, Prof K M Luk, Prof Edwin Pun, Prof K S Chiang, Prof P S Chung, Prof Hong Yan, Prof Li Ping, Prof Keith Zhang, Prof Henry Chung, Dr H C So, Dr Albert Sung, Dr Hei Wong, Dr K L Lau, Dr Andrew Leung, Dr Wei Yan, Dr K W Leung, Dr L F Yeung.

Advancing development in information security and management

Dr L M Cheng, one of the three CityU researchers, introduced their findings on information security and management at a Technology Transfer Forum held at City University of Hong Kong on 18 May 2006.

Compact Radio Frequency device enhances a new generation of wireless communication

A team of EE researchers comprising of Professor C H Chan, Professor K M Luk, Dr Xue Quan and Mr Wong Hang, in collaboration with Freescale, a major US semiconductor manufacturer, has developed a device that aims at popularizing the use of an emerging global wireless communications standard - ZigBee.

EE Ranks No.2 in Worldwide University SCI publication ranking on Electronic Engineering

The Department of Electronic Engineering of CityU was ranked second worldwide, according to a recent survey conducted by Yuan Ze University in Taiwan.

Prof Hong Yan elected Fellow of IEEE, the 7th EE professor honoured

Professor Hong Yan has just been elected Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2006. His citation reads "For contributions to image recognition techniques and applications".

IEEE is an international professional association with more than 377,000 individual members from 150 countries. Every year, less than 0.1% of its members worldwide are elected Fellows. The honours is conferred only to eminent scientists with extraordinary credentials, experience and contributions in IEEE designated fields. Prof Yan has been with us for six years since 1999 and this is a recognition of his work done at CityU. CityU-EE now boasts 7 IEEE Fellows, a record breaker among all CS, EE, EEE and EIE departments in Hong Kong!

CityU's novel dimmable lighting technology wins prestigious award (4 Oct 05)

A novel dimmable lighting technology developed by Chair Professor Ron Hui and Professor Henry Chung has been awarded the "Best New Product 2005" by the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association.

ASTRI licensing agreement recognizes CityU's innovative technology

ASTRI, the biggest R & D organization in Hong Kong, has agreed to license the innovative computer architecture invented by Dr Anthony Fong, Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering.

Dr Andrew Leung receives IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Award

Dr Andrew Leung has been selected to receive the 2005 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award for his paper entitled "The Plenoptic Illumination Function" published in September 2002. Every year, only one best paper is selected by the joint editorial board of the IEEE Circuits and Systems, Signal Processing, Communications and Computer Societies among all the papers published during the past three years. This is a highly distinguished international honour for a young scientist! Congratulations to Andrew again!

Best 2005 IEEE Transaction Paper Award

Prof Guanrong Chen received the 2005 Guillemin-Cauer Best IEEE Transaction Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for his paper (co-authored with his research fellows Dr X Li and Dr X Wang) entitled 'Pinning a Complex Dynamical Network to its Equilibrium'. The paper was published in the IEEE Transaction CAS-I, 51(10), October 2004, pp. 2074-2087.

This is the second Best IEEE Transaction Paper Award Prof Chen has received within five years. The last award was received from IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society in 2001. Every year, only one regular paper is selected for the award among all papers published by each IEEE Transaction belonging to a particular technical society of the IEEE.

Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship 2005-06

Prof Li Ping was elected Croucher Senior Research Fellowship (2005-06). The Fellowship is a prestigious award granted to scientists who have outstanding research profile and achievement, and are in a position to provide unique expertise and inspiration to the proposed research programme. Recipients of the Award are selected after a very rigorous process. This time the selection has involved reviewers of senior international standing from 13 countries, including the US, Canada, Britain, Germany, and France.

Recently Elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Prof C H Chan was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2002 for his contributions to computational electromagnetics.

Prof Y C Chan was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), USA for 2004. His citation reads "for his contributions to electronic product reliability".

Prof Ron S Y Hui was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2003 for his contributions in power electronic circuits and modeling techniques.

Prof K M Luk was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2003 for his contributions to the development of wideband microstrip patch antennas and dielectric resonator antennas.

Prof Hong Yan was elected Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2006. His citation reads "For contributions to image recognition techniques and applications".

Last updated : 9 Oct 2008