Professor Arindam Basu has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE, effective 1 January 2026.
This prestigious recognition honors Professor Basu for his fundamental contributions to neuromorphic edge processing and security primitives.
With this achievement, our Department now boasts 20 IEEE Fellows (or 27 including retired faculty). We are honored to have so many internationally renowned scholars who continue to bring distinction to our community. We look forward with confidence and excitement to seeing even more remarkable accomplishments and inspiring news in the near future!
The team, supervised by Prof Derrick Jiang and comprising Mr Chen Chen (PhD), Dr Tianlu Ma (Postdoc), and Dr Ben Zhang (Postdoc), has won the Third Place at IEEE PELS Drs. Muhammad Harunur and Fatema Rashid Student Program Hardware Project Demonstrations at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) 2025. The winning project is titled “Efficient and Lightweight Wireless Energy Harvesting System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle”.
ECCE brings together practicing engineers, researchers, and professionals for interactive and multidisciplinary discussions on the latest advances in various areas related to energy conversion. Since 2011, ECCE has organized the hardware demo event for students to showcase their research outcomes and interact with academia and industry. There were 19 international teams selected for the final demonstration, and our team is one of the three award winners.
Dr Ben ZHANG (Postdoc) has won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 International Conference on Wireless Power Transfer & Electric Vehicle Drive Systems (ICWPT 2025). The winning paper, supervised by Prof Derrick Jiang (Associate Professor of EE), is titled “Multiphysics Modeling and Coupling Analysis for a Reconfigurable Magnetic Coupler in AUV Wireless Power Transfer”.
ICWPT2025, organized by the China Electrotechnical Society (CES), brought together over 300 leading researchers from around the world to discuss the development of wireless power transfer technologies, interdisciplinary integration, and their real-world applications.
Prof WANG Cheng (Associate Professor), Prof FENG Hanke (Research Assistant Professor), and Dr TAO Yuansheng (Postdoc Fellow) have published a paper in the top journal – Nature, on 27 August 2025. The paper titled “Ultrabroadband on-chip photonics for full-spectrum wireless communications” is a collaborative work with scholars from Peking University and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
You may get a glimpse of the research work in the paper located at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09451-8 or visit the news release at People’s Daily.
The paper, co-authored by Prof Arindam Basu (Professor of EE), and scholars from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, was awarded the 2024 Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Runner-up Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The winning paper is titled “High-performance one-dimensional halide perovskite crossbar memristors and synapses for neuromorphic computing”.
The paper, co-authored by Dr Zhu Gangwei (Postdoc), Prof Wu Jiayang (Research Assistant Professor), Prof S C Tan (Chair Professor) and Prof Ron Hui(Chair Professor), was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE International Zhejiang Power Electronics Conference (ZPEC). The winning paper is titled “Comprehensive Study of Detuning Effects in SS-Compensated Wireless Power Transfer Systems”.
Hosted by Zhejiang University, and co-sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society, China Power Supply Society, together with leading industrial partners, ZPEC aims to bridge academia and industry, with a core focus on the practical applications of emerging power electronics technologies.
Prof Henry Chung (Chair Professor of EE) and Dr TANG Ho Tin (2025 PhD graduate) have been awarded the Gold Medal at the Silicon Valley International Inventions Festival (SVIIF) 2025. The winning project is titled “Innovative Gate Drive Technology: Incorporating Self-adaptive Gate Driving, Health Monitoring, and Crosstalk Mitigation for Wide Band Gap Devices Prevalent in Modern Energy Systems”. Designed for advanced power devices used in modern energy systems, this smart gate driver, i.e. a kind of power amplifier, reduces electrical interference, helps the devices last longer, and checks their condition to keep them running at their best.
SVIIF, the world’s largest innovations competition, showcases cutting-edge inventions from around the world and provides a unique platform for inventors to receive internationally recognized awards for excellence in innovation. More details can be found at CityUHK News Centre.
Prof Din-ping Tsai (Chair Professor of EE), in collaboration with Prof Yuri Kivshar from the Australian National University, has been awarded the 2025 Top Ten Advances in Metamaterials in China (Basic Research) for their recent work published in Physical Review Letters and titled “From Local to Nonlocal High-𝑄 Plasmonic Metasurfaces”. They found a generalized law ‘Inverse square root law’, that builds up the connection between high-loss localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) and low-loss surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), enabling a significant reduction in dissipation loss and paving the way for novel applications.
The award was presented at the 4th China Metamaterials Conference (CMMC 2025). The conference is dedicated to advancing fundamental research, as well as research in design, manufacturing, and device applications. It serves as a significant platform that connects academia and industry, fostering academic dialogue, technical collaboration, and the advancement of technology.
The paper, co-authored by Prof Michael Tse (Chair Professor of EE), Dr Jingxi Yang (Research Fellow of EE), Miss Zhenxi Wu (PhD student), Mr Chao Liu (PhD student), and scholars from Wuhan University and Central South University, was awarded the Best Paper Award (First Place) in IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS) 2025. The winning paper is titled “Impact of distributed secondary control on transient stability of islanded microgrids”.
The IEEE ISCAS, held annually since 1968, is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. This year, three Best Paper Prizes were awarded, out of the over 1000 papers selected for presentation at the conference.
Prof YAO Jin, Research Assistant Professor under the research group of Prof Din-ping Tsai, has won the Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics. The winning paper is titled “Nonlocal meta-lens for spin-multiplexing focusing and imaging”.
The International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP) is a biennial, independent, and non-profit conference series widely regarded as the premier event in the field of plasmonics. The conference addresses both fundamental aspects and practical applications of plasmonics.