Staff Achievements 2023

Centre for Intelligent Multidimensional Data Analysis Limited (CIMDA) led by Prof Hong Yan, Chair Professor of EE, has won the Excellent Product Awards at the China Hi-Tech Fair 2023. The winning project is titled “CIMDA Elderly Care System” which provides AI functions with 3D animations to elderlies to teach them to do exercises, sing and dance with an avatar, compose music, and chat with the avatar.

The China Hi-Tech Fair is an annual event held in Shenzhen. It is also the largest and most prominent hi-tech exhibition in China covering tech achievement, product display, high-level forums, investment promotions, and business exchange and cooperation. It focuses on showcasing advanced technologies and products in areas like artificial intelligence, high-end equipment manufacturing, environmental protection, new generation information technology, new display technology, smart cities, and digital healthcare.

Prof Ron Chen, Chair Professor of EE, is named Highly Cited Researchers 2023 for the field “Engineering” by Clarivate Analytics. Prof Chen has been put on the Highly Cited Researchers List of respective fields for different years and has been on the list for the field “Engineering” for 11 years.

Engineering – 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2001
Mathematics – 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015
Physics - 2014

Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics recognizes researchers who have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their field(s) of research over the last decade. Research names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations in one or more fields in Essential Science Indicators (ESI). This preliminary list is then refined with the information that lies beneath, using qualitative analysis and expert judgment to come up with the final list of Highly Cited Researchers. To know more, please visit Clarivate.

Centre for Intelligent Multidimensional Data Analysis Limited (CIMDA) led by Prof Hong Yan, Chair Professor of EE, has won the Bronze Prize under the category “Health Care & Well-Being” in the 2nd Smart Age Awards (2022). The winning project, “CIMDA Care”, is an elderly care system providing AI functions with 3D animations to elderlies to teach them to do exercises, sing and dance with an avatar, compose music, and chat with the avatar.

The award, organized by Golden Age Foundation, celebrates innovative and outstanding services, products and programmes that enhance the quality of elderly life and embrace independent and dignified ageing. The award also inspires organisations and entrepreneurs to develop innovative ideas and initiatives to help reshape the future of smart ageing.

For more details, please check CityU NewsCentre.

The paper “Radar: Reliable Resource Scheduling for Composable/Disaggregated Data Centers” authored by Prof Moshe Zukerman, Chair Professor of EE, is selected as the State of the Art (SOA) paper by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Volume: 19, Issue: 8, August 2023).

The SAO paper is accessible here.

Prof Michael Tse, Chair Professor of EE, has received First Place in 2022 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Prize Paper Award. The winning paper, co-authored with scholars from Southeast University, Nanjing, is titled “A Family of Hybrid IPT Couplers With High Tolerance to Pad Misalignment”.

TPEL is one of the most impactful journals in the field of power electronics. The award aims to recognize four first prize papers and six second prize papers deemed best among those published in the Transactions during the preceding calendar year. Prof Tse received the Second Prize Paper Award in 2021 as well.

Journal paper "Directional dipole dice enabled by anisotropic chirality", authored by Dr Alex Wong (Assistant Professor of EE), Dr Dangyuan Lei (Associate Professor of MSE), and Dr Shubo Wang (Assistant Professor of PHY), has been published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on 12 June 2023.

PNAS is regarded as one of the world's top academic journals. It is so excited that Dr Wong as a young faculty member having paper published in such an international top journal.

According to Dr Wong: “The directional dipole dice is a helical element that can act as a circular dipole, Huygens dipole or Janus dipole when excited by plane waves with the appropriate direction and polarization. These dipoles have distinctive near-field directionalities which allow one to direct electromagnetic wave coupling into waveguides in different directions, like how traffic lights direct traffic flow through intersections.”.

The outstanding paper can be found at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301620120.

Five EE teams have clutched 4 Gold Medals and 1 Bronze Medal at the 48^th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva held from 26 to 30 April 2023.

More details about this good news can be found at CityU NewsCentre.

The exhibition is the world’s most important event exclusively dedicated to inventions. It offers a unique opportunity for universities, inventors and researchers, industrial and commercial companies, associations, private and state organisms and institutions to present the results of their research, their inventions, and their new products. 

Dr Alex Yu, Assistant Professor of EE, has received the 2023 IEEE Communications Society Katherine Johnson Young Author Paper Award. The winning paper, co-authored with scholars from HKUST, The Pennsylvania State University, University of New South Wales, and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nürnberg, is titled “Robust and secure wireless communications via intelligent reflecting surfaces”.

The awarded paper was published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications in 2020, which is the top technical journal in the IEEE Communications Society. The award honors the author(s) of an especially meritorious paper dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope and who, upon the date of submission of the paper, is less than 30 years of age.

Eleven EE faculty are on the Best Scientists List 2023 according to the D-index, publications and citations collected on December 21st, 2022 by Research.com, Prof Ron Chen, Chair Profess of EE, is ranked the third in the world and the first in China in the arena of “Electronics and Electrical Engineering”.