Student Award 2024

Mr ONGGOWARSITO Raymonk Surya (CDE, Year 3) has won the IET Prize 2024, which was organized by The Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). The prize aims to recognize outstanding students who have achieved academic excellence and have been active in extra-curricular activities, engineering institutions, and community services.

Mr Onggowarsito has excelled academically, receiving numerous awards and scholarships, and has consistently made the Dean's List for four consecutive semesters. He has also actively participated in numerous co-/ extra-curricular activities or community services organized by the Department or the University. He has proved himself an outstanding and all-rounded student for competing for the prizes.

A team led by Prof Derrick Jiang and comprising Dr MO Liping (Postdoc), Mr MA Tianlu (PhD student), and Mr WANG Yibo (PhD student) won the Third Prize in China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition 2024. The winning project is called “Electric Vehicle: Next-generation Nanocrystalline Smart Wireless EV Charger”.

The competition, organized by Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, aims to serve as a platform to discover and support high-potential innovative enterprises and projects and drive the transformation of technological achievements into real-world applications, fostering the growth of startups and enterprises.

Miss Rong LIN (PhD student), supervised by Prof Din-ping Tsai (Chair Professor) and Prof Mu-ku Chen (Assistant Professor), won the Student Award at International Symposium on Imaging Sensing, and Optical Memory (ISOM 2024). The winning paper is titled “Tunable abrupt autofocusing meta-devices”.

ISOM was first held in 1985. It now covers fields in optical memory, imaging, sensing, and other related technologies for scientific interaction and collaboration.

The paper “Adaptive Level-Shift Gate Driver with Indirect Gate Oxide Health Monitoring for Suppressing Crosstalk of SiC MOSFETs” co-authored by Prof Henry Chung (Chair Professor), Mr Tang Ho Tin (PhD student supervised by Prof Henry Chung), and Prof Kevin J. Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) have won the 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Prize Paper Award – Second Place.

Each year, the IEEE Power Electronics Society recognizes the papers deemed best among those published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics during the preceding calendar year. There were 89 regular paper nominations this round and the winning paper is one of the nine selected papers to receive the Second Place Prize Paper Award.

Two EE graduates have won Bronze Award and Merit Prize at HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2024.

Jointly organized by The Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association (HKEIA) and Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association Education Foundation (HKEIAEF), the award aims to recognize and reward students with outstanding final-year projects that demonstrate excellence in technology and innovation.

Mr YUEN Chun Pong (2024 graduate of ELEL) has been awarded Outstanding Power and Energy Engineering Graduate Award by the Power and Energy Section (PES) of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Hong Kong.

This award aims to recognize the outstanding academic achievements of graduates in Electrical Engineering at the Bachelor's degree level, encourage students to pursue their careers in power and energy engineering, promote IET Hong Kong PES to higher education graduates, and foster active participation in IET Hong Kong PES activities. Nominee should be of exceptional academic performance, possess outstanding results in their Final Year Project (FYP), and demonstrate strong leadership and all-round capabilities through active involvement in extracurricular activities and community service. Mr Yuen was FYP student of Prof Henry Chung for the project titled “Use of Hardware-in-the-Loop to Design a Maximum Power Point Tracking PV System”.

EE students have won the First and Merit Prize in the 10th Hong Kong University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition.

The competition organized by Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association aims to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among the young generation. It is a platform facilitating students to further develop their potential, sharpen their presentation and interpersonal skills and become future innovation and entrepreneurship leaders.

A team of PhD students and Postdocs, comprising Mr CHEN Chen, Dr FAN Yuanshuang, Mr MA Tianlu, Dr MO Liping, Mr WANG Xiaosheng, Mr WANG Yibo, and Dr ZHOU Jiayu, has been awarded the 1^st Runner Up in IET Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition (YPEC) 2024 – Postgraduate Section. The winning project, supervised by Prof Derrick Jiang, is called "Advanced Dynamic Wireless Charging for Automated Guided Vehicles".

YPEC, organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), is a dynamic platform for young professionals from different segments to exhibit their engineering and technology innovation.

The CityUHK Underwater Robotics Team has won the Third Place at the 2024 MATE ROV World Championship held in June at Meadowview Parkway Kingsport, TN, USA. The CityUHK team has participated in this competition since 2016 and the result achieved this year is the best ever. There were 21 teams from all over the world advancing to the world final to compete in the EXPLORE class.

The team, comprising 5 EE students and another 5 students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Computer Science, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, is supervised by Prof Ray Cheung (Professor, EE) and Prof Pakpong Chirarattananon (Associate Professor, BME & MNE).

The MATE ROV Competition is a prestigious international event that challenges student teams to design, build, and operate underwater robots to complete simulated real-world missions. The EXPLORER class is at an advanced level for universities, colleges and high schools that have previously participated in the competition. You may check here for more information about the competition. 

EE teams achieved remarkable results at the 49th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (IEIG), winning 12 awards, including one Special Prize, five Gold Medals with Congratulations of the Jury, two Gold Medals, one Silver Medal and three Bronze Medals. The results are encouraging and demonstrate the international recognition of EE's research and scientific achievements.

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. The 49th IEIG, held from 17 to 21 April in Switzerland, featured more than 1,000 inventions from 38 countries and regions around the world. The Hong Kong delegation has won 6 Special Prizes. The team led by Prof Stella Pang is one of the 6 winners of Special Prizes and the only team from CityU to clutch such a prestigious award.

For the list of winning teams and projects, please visit here

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