Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

First Prize in the IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest (Postgraduate Category)

Our PhD students Miss Tung Hoi Yan and Mr Lee Lap To, and Mr Lam Ka Lun, supervised by Dr K F Tsang and Dr K T Ko respectively, have won the First Prize of the IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest (Postgraduate Category) for their paper "Fuzzy Recursive ON-OFF Model for Proactive Residential Energy Management System". They were awarded the third Prize in the same contest in 2008. It is the fourth time our students received award from this contest.

Championship in IET Hong Kong Younger Members Exhibition/Conference (YMEC2009) Postgraduate Section

Our PhD student, Mr XUAN Kai, supervised by Dr KF Tsang has clutched the Best of the Best Award as well as the Championship in the postgraduate section of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong Younger Members Exhibition/Conference (YMEC2009), for his paper " A Dual-band Low Noise Amplifier for Zigbee application" .

1st Runner-up in IET Hong Kong Younger Members Exhibition/Conference (YMEC2009) Undergraduate Section

Our BEngECE Year 3 student, Mr Kwong Wing Cheong, supervised by Dr Xue Quan, has won the 1st Runner-up in the undergraduate section of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong Younger Members Exhibition/Conference (YEMC2009), for his paper " A Wideband Parallel- Strip Balun for Balanced Frequency Doubler".

SMC Student Best Paper Award in International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC) 2009

Our PhD student Mr M. Ashraful Amin, supervised by Prof Hong Yan, has recently received the SMC Student Best Paper Award in International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC) 2009 for his paper entitled: Phase Congruency Based Retinal Vessel Segmentation. The conference is held annually. This year, the conference received 1384 submissions and accepted 270 papers for oral presentation. Ashraful's paper is one of the 270 papers and selected to receive the Student Best Paper Award.

Bronze Prize in Grand Final of 2009 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition

Our EE Year 3 student, Mr TUNG Hin Chuen (BEngCE), has won the Bronze Prize in the Grand Final of 2009 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition for his project Wireless Multimedia Stationwhich was supervised by Dr Ricky Lau. All together 46 projects from the universities of the 12 participating regions, including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and 9 provinces in the Pan-PRD region, were selected to join the competition which was co-organized by Internet Professional Association (iProA) and Yunnan Federation of Computers, together with IT Departments or Computer Societies of the participating provinces.

Most Valuable Player in the MATE International Remote Operated Vehicle Competition 2009

Mr GAO Jiabei Gabriel, our BEngECE Year 1 student, has been awarded the Schilling Robotics' Engineering "Most Valuable Player" in the MATE International Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) Competition 2009, which was organized annually by The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Centre and Marine Technology Society's (MTS) ROV Committee since 2002. There were all together 54 teams adding up to around 350 students, who came from 5 countries, joined the competition this year. The CityU team comprising 7 EE students and 1 MEEM student were supervised by Dr. Robin Bradbeer. Gabriel is one of the 6 students to receive this award.

IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship 2009

Our BEngECE Year 3 student, Mr LIU Xiangke supervised by Prof KM Luk, has been awarded the IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship for Fall 2009 by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, USA. His winning projects is called "Design of Small Antenna for Mobile Communications". He is among 6 students worldwide to receive this scholarship, and this is the fourth time our students received this award.

First Runner-Up Prize in 2009 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition ( Hong Kong Region )

Mr TUNG Hin Chuen, our BEngCE year 3 students, has recently won the First Runner-Up Prize in 2009 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition (Hong Kong Region), which was organized by Yunnan Federation of Computers with the Junior Committee of iProA as the co-organizer for the Hong Kong region. The winning project, supervised by Dr Ricky Lau, is called Wireless Multimedia Station. He will represent Hong Kong in the final round of the Competition to be held on 26-28 June 2009 in Yunnan Province competing with the representatives from the nine provinces in the Pan-PRD region, Macao and Taiwan.

Meritorious Prize in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) - Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, US

Our BEngECE Year 2 student, Mr Andy Wang Xian, who formed a team with two students from Department of Physics and Materials Science and Department of Mathematics, has recently won the Meritorious Prize of the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), a unique international contest for high school students and college undergraduates. It was organized by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP) in the United States of America. Each team has to clarify, analyze, and propose solutions to one of the three modeling problems. Our team chose MCM problem A "Designing a Traffic Circle".

Excellency Award by University in 2008 Samsung Joint Universities Creative Technology Talents Awards

A team of 4 EE students, including Mr Andy Wong Yee Tak, Mr Arthur Liu Zhao, our BEngECE Business Intelligence Minor Year 2 students and Mr Andy Wang Xian, Miss Joanne Law Kit Wan, our BEngECE Year 2 students, has recently won the Excellency Award by University in the 2008 Samsung Joint Universities Creative Technology Talents Awards. The competition was organized by Samsung Electronics, Cyberport, Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks and five local universities including City University of Hong Kong. The winning project is called Elder Walkcare.

Third Prize Winner in the IEEE Hong Kong Section 2008 (PG) Student Paper Contest

Our MPhil students, Miss Hoi Yan Tung and Mr Ka Lun Lam, supervised by Dr K F Tsang and Dr K T Ko respectively have won the Third Prize in the IEEE Hong Kong Section 2008 (Postgraduate) Student Paper Contest for their paper entitled "A Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for Energy Management".

Bronze Prize and Merit Prize in the Broadband World Forum Asia 2008

Miss Tung Hoi Yan and Mr Lam Ka Lun, our two MPhil students have respectively won the Bronze Prize and Merit Prize of the Outstanding Paper Award in the Broadband World Forum Asia 2008. Miss Tung's winning paper is "A Power Saving Energy Management System" and her supervisor is Dr K F Tsang, while Mr Lam's winning paper is "An Economic & Efficient Telemedicine System" and his supervisor is Dr K T Ko.

First Prize in the IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest (Postgraduate Category)

Our PhD fresh graduate Dr CHIU Leung, supervised by Dr XUE Quan, has won the First Prize of the IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest (Postgraduate Category) for his paper "Performance Enhancement of Microwave Circuitries Using Parallel Strip Line". Dr Chiu was awarded the Second Prize in the same contest in 2007, and has won more than 10 regional, national and local prizes during his study in CityU.

Second and Merit Award Winners in the 3rd IEEE Hong Kong Signal Processing Postgraduate Forum

Mr K H Ng, our MPhil fresh graduate has received the Second Award in the 3rd IEEE Hong Kong Signal Processing Postgraduate Forum, while Mr K W Chan, our PhD student has received the Merit Award in the same occasion. Their supervisors are Dr L M Po and Dr H C So respectively. The winning papers of Mr Ng and Mr Chan are respectively "Search Patterns Switching for Motion Estimation Using Rate of Error Descent" and "A Novel Subspace Approach for Wireless Sensor Network Positioning with Range Measurements".

Bronze Award Winner in the WTISD-HK Telecommunication Innovation Competition 2008

Mr Andy Wong Yee Tak, our BEngECE (Business Intelligence Minor) Year 1 student, has won the Bronze Award in the ICT Innovation Competition of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Hong Kong (WTISD-HK) 2008, Applications Development Proposal category. The competition, aiming to arouse students' interest in and demonstrate the opportunities brought by mobile applications development, was organized by the Communications Association of Hong Kong (CAHK) and the Honorable Sin Chung-kai, Legislative Councillor (IT).

IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship 2007

Mr. WU Weijiu Joe, our BEngECE Year 3 student supervised by Prof C H Chan, has been awarded the IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship for Fall 2007 by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, USA. His winning project is named "2.45GHz Power Amplifier using Doherty Architecture for High Efficiency and Linearity". There are only about 10 award receivers each year from universities worldwide, and this is the third time our students received this award.

Gold Award Winners of the Hong Kong Information and Communications Technology (HKICT) Awards

Mr Leung Siu Wai, our MPhil fresh graduate and Mr Li Tin Ho, our PhD student, have jointly won the Gold Award in the Best Innovation & Research (College & Undergraduate) Award category of the Hong Kong ICT Award 2007. Their supervisor is Prof Henry Chung and their winning project is "Energy Efficient Burn-in System of Switching Mode Power Supplies". In the Best Digital Entertainment (Student) Award category, our BEngIE Year-2 student Mr Li Pak Kei has won the Certificate of Merit for his project "Lightning Strike".

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. .

Second Prize in the IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest (Postgraduate Category)

Our PhD student Mr Chiu Leung, a name not unfamiliar because of his frequent award winning in different local and national contests, has received the Second Prize in the IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest (Postgraduate Category). His supervisor is Dr Xue Quan, and the winning paper was "Integrated Antenna Modules Achieving High Radiating Efficiency and Adaptive Beam Control for High performance RF Front End".

Mr Chen Jia Shu, our BEngECE Year 3 student supervised by Prof C H Chan, has been awarded the IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-graduate Scholarship 2007 by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, USA for his project "An On-Chip Differential Active Bias Technique for RFIC Gilbert-Cell Mixer Linearization". There are only about 10 award receivers each year from universities worldwide.

Championship in IET Hong Kong Younger Members Exhibition/Conference (YMEC2007)

Our MPhil student Miss SUN Yuting, Sunnie, supervised by Dr K F Tsang, has clutched the Best of the Best Award as well as the Championship in the postgraduate section of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong Younger Members Exhibition/Conference (YMEC2007), for her paper "QoS Prediction for High Speed Packet Access Networks".

Our PhD student Mr CHIN Ching-hong, Kevin, supervised by Dr Xue Quan, has won the 1st Runner-up for his paper "Novel Broadband Patch Antenna Using a Vertical Plate Pair as a Differential Feeding Scheme". Our BEngECE Year 3 student Mr CHEN Jia Shu, supervised by Prof C H Chan, has clutched the Championship in the undergraduate section for his paper "An On-Chip Differential Active Bias Technique for RFIC Gilbert-Cell Mixer Linearization".

Our MPhil student, Mr Xueyuan SU, has passed through rigorous selections to be admitted as a full-time student in the PhD programme of the Department of Computer Science, Yale University, commencing in the 2007- 08 academic year. His supervisor is our Associate Professor, Dr Sammy C H Chan. Mr Su has also been offered a University Fellowship that will cover his tuition fee, and he will continue to pursue research in wireless ad hoc networks.

PhD student receives a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service

Mr Chengqing Li, our PhD student, has received a scholarship from the prestigious science foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (known as DAAD, ie, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst), to undertake post-graduate study and academic visit in Germany for six months in 2007. Mr Li's academic supervisor is our Chair Professor, Prof G. Ron Chen.

A team of 6 EE students including Ke Jiangbo, Lin Jing, Tang Chengcheng, Dai Bo, Li Shuo, our BEngECE Year 1 students and Li Boyan, our BEngCE Year 1 student, supervised by the Team Instructor Dr Robin Li, has won the First Prize of the university / college group in the HK Underwater Robot Challenge 2007. The team will be sponsored to attend the ROV Challenge International Finals held in Newfoundland, Canada in late June.

Mr. Chen Yongdong, our BEngECE Year 1 student, has recently received the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship. Only 3-4 scholarships will be given out annually to CityU students, and the awardees will be named Jockey Club Scholars. Mr. Chen was selected because of both his good academic performance as well as his strength on leadership.

Our PhD Student Mr Chiu Leung, supervised by Dr Xue Quan, has clutched the First Prize in the IEEE Hong Kong Section 2006 Student Paper Contest for his paper "An integrated antenna module achieving high radiating efficiency and adaptive beam control". Chiu Leung has been actively participating in different open competitions and has received a few honors in 2006.

Our PhD student, Dr. Wong Hang supervised by Prof K M Luk, has won the Best Student Microwave Prize in the 2006 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference held from 12-15 December 2006 in Yokohama, Japan, for his paper "Unidirectional Antenna Composed of a Planar Dipole and a Shorted Patch". This year, a total of 694 papers from 42 countries were accepted, which is the largest number in APMC's history held in Japan.

Mr. Jack Li Pak Kei, our BEngIE Year 1 student, has won the Best Mobile Game Award in the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2006 (Digital Entertainment) for his actively involved project 3G Mopas, under the name of his company 3 Dynamics (Asia) Limited. Mr. Wallis Wong, the Founder & Business Development Director of 3 Dynamics is our 2001 BEngEE graduate.

Mr Wong Ka-wai and Mr Chiu Leung, our BEngECE fresh graduate and PhD student respectively, have clutched the Gold Award in the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2006: eYouth (Hardware) Award category for their joint project "Retrodirective Arrays for Mobile Communication Systems".

Mr Chen Jia Shu, our BEngECE final year student, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Science and Technology Fellowship award. The Award, funded by the US Department of State, is among the most prestigious U.S. international scholarships in science and technology. Mr Chen will be sponsored to pursue his PhD study in one of the top U.S. institutions such as Stanford, UC Berkeley and MIT upon graduation from CityU.

Mr. Chiu Leung, our PhD student supervised by Dr Xue Quan, has been awarded the HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers 2006 for his paper entitled "A high efficiency circularly-polarized Van Atta analog adaptive array for full duplex communications".

PhD student Mr Chiu Leung, supervised by Dr Xue Quan, has won the championship in the postgraduate section for his paper "High Performance Analog Adaptive Arrays for Modern Wireless Communications" at the Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong Young Member Exhibition/Conference (YMEC2006).

PhD student Mr Steven Yang, supervised by Prof K M Luk, has won the 2nd runner-up for his paper "Design of Wideband Table-shaped Reconfigurable Antennas. BEngECE fresh graduates Miss Chan Yi-wah, supervised by Prof K M Luk, has won the first runner-up for her paper "The Study of Ultra Wideband Monopole/Dielectric Resonator Antenna" while Mr Wong Ka-wai, supervised by Dr Xue Quan, has won the second runner-up, the best presentation award and the most supported award for his paper "2-Dimensional Retrodirective Array for Mobile Communication Systems".

Mr Xiaojun (James) Chen, our BEngECE Year 3 student supervised by Prof C H Chan, has just been awarded the prestigious IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship by the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, USA for his project "A new technique that improves the efficiency of a linear power amplifier. James is the only winner from the Asia Pacific area among the 10 award receivers from universities worldwide.