PhD Students Winning First Prize in the 2023 Cross-Strait and Hong Kong-Macao College Students Integrated Circuit and Electronic Design Invitational Competition

Three PhD students, Mr MAO Gaoyu, Mr LI Guangyan, and Ms ZHANG Zhewen, have won the First Prize in the 2023 Cross-Strait and Hong Kong-Macao College Students Integrated Circuit and Electronic Design Invitational Competition for the project titled “RISC-V Based Lightweight Public-key Cryptosystem Design and Applications" which is supervised by Prof Ray Cheung (Professor, EE) and Dr Yao Liu (2019 EE PhD graduate and now Assistant Professor at Sun Yat-sen University).

The competition was organized by the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) and hosted by the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) with the theme of "chip" creating the future (“芯”創未來). The competition attracted hundreds of teams from the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau to participate. Our EE team is the only team in Hong Kong shortlisted for the Special Prize defense and won the First Prize.