Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

Prof Henry Chung has been awarded the First Class Prize of Natural Science Award

Prof Henry Chung has been awarded the First Class Prize of Natural Science Award by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China for his research project “Ant Colony System for Optimization of Power Electronics Circuits”. This is a collaborative research project with Prof Zhang Jun, Associate Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology, Sun-Yat Sen University.

Prof Michael Pecht has been awarded $7.1 million RGC Collaborative Research Fund

Prof Michael Pecht, who is Director of Centre for Prognostics and System Health Management (PHM), has been awarded $7.1 million from RGC Collaborative Research Fund, for the projectSelf-Cognizant Prognostics for Electronics-Rich Systems. The project focuses on assessing the reliability of electronic systems in order to prevent breakdowns that can lead to inefficiency or, in worst-case scenarios, fatal disasters.

Prof Henry Chung won the Machinery and Machine Tools Design Award

Prof Henry Chung, who is the founder of e.Energy Lighting Limited, has won the Machinery and Machine Tools Design Award from the 2009 Hong Kong Awards for Industries. His winning product is "T&K Lighting Management System". The Hong Kong Awards for Industries was officially launched in 2005 for recognising the outstanding achievements of Hong Kong enterprises in their move towards higher technology and higher value-added activities.

Professor Ping LI has been elected Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Professor Ping Li has just been elected Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2009 in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the area of iterative signal processing, multi-user detection and concatenated error control codes. CityU-EE now boasts 11 IEEE Fellows.

Prof Ron Hui received the IEEE PELS Transactions Prize Paper Award 2009

Prof Ron Hui has won the IEEE PELS Transactions Prize Paper Award 2009 for the paper entitled Optimal Design of a Hybrid Winding Structure for Planar Contactless Battery Charging Platform, which is co-authored by 2007 PhD graduate of EE, Dr Xun LIU.

This is an annual award organized by the IEEE Power Electronics Society. There were 323 papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in 2008 and this paper is one of the only three papers to receive this award, which is an international recognition of the pioneering contribution made by Prof Hui and Dr Liu to the wireless battery charging platform technology. The winning paper was published in Vol.23, No. 1, pp. 455-463, January 2008.

Dr Lin DAI receives the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications 2009

Dr Lin DAI has won the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications 2009, for her paper "A Unified Cross-Layer Framework for Resource Allocation in Cooperative Networks". Other three joint authors are Dr Wei Chen and Prof Zhigand Cao of Tsinghua University, and Prof Khaled Ben Letaief of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

This is an annual award organized by the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society for an original paper in the field of Wireless Communications published in the IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications in the previous calendar year. The winning paper was published in Vol.7, No. 8, pp. 3000-3012, August 2008.

EE Chair Professor received the prestigious The State Natural Science Award (SNSA)

Prof Ron Chen received The State Natural Science Award (SNSA) second-class award conferred under the 2008 State Science and Technology Awards (SSTAs), to honor his long-term research project "Chaos Anti-control and Generalized Lorenz Systems Family - Theory and Applications". It is noted that there was no first-class award given this year.

Prof Chen's project belongs to the frontier of interdisciplinary scientific research on chaos theory, control systems and mathematical sciences. Its findings provide some new theories and technologies for applications of nonlinear science to engineering, physics and biology alike.

Organized by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the State Science and Technology Awards are highly recognized awards in the science and technology fields in the Mainland. In 2008, more than 160 shortlisted entries were received and competed for the SNSA category, which is China's most prestigious award in the field of natural science. It aims to recognize academic excellence in basic and applied research in natural science. A total of four SNSA second-class awards were conferred to our HK scientific talents, in which two are led by HK scientists including the one led by Prof Chen.

Professor K F Man and Professor Keith Zhang have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Professor K F Man and Professor Keith Zhang have just been elected Fellows of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2008 in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the area of evolutionary optimization in industrial electronics and wireless communications respectively. CityU-EE now boasts 8 IEEE Fellows.

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.

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, 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.

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 Guanrong Chen was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 1997 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of chaos control and bifurcation analysis.

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 Ping Li was elected Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2009 in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the area of iterative signal processing, multi-user detection and concatenated error control codes.

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 K F Man was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2008 for his contributions to the area of evolutionary optimization in industrial electronics.

Prof Michael Pecht was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 1992 for his contributions to and leadership in electronics packaging and reliability.

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".

Prof Keith Zhang was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2008 for his contributions to wireless communications.

Prof Moshe Zukerman was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) for 2007 for his contributions to performance evaluation of communication systems and networks.