Prof Henry Chung, Chair Professor, has been honored with the inaugural Research Impact Award by the College of Engineering in recognition of the exceptional impact of his research or research creation on the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life locally, regionally or internationally.
As Prof Chung approaches his retirement at the end of this month, his passion for research and the profound impact of his work will continue to inspire us.
Prof Arindam Basu has been selected to receive the Young Alumni Achiever Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, in recognition of his remarkable achievements as a young alumnus who has shown promise and early success in his professional journey.
IIT Kharagpur is ranked 64th globally in the subject area of Engineering & Technology. The award is conferred by the Institute each year to alumni aged 45 or below to acknowledge their extraordinary accomplishments, outstanding achievements in their chosen field, and for distinguished community services, which in turn have created an impact and made their alma mater proud. The award will be presented to Prof Basu at the Institute’s Platinum Jubilee Foundation Day ceremony on 18 August 2026.
Prof Din-ping Tsai (Chair Professor) has published a paper in the top journal – Nature Communications, on 23 June 2026. The paper titled “Varifocal Alvarez metalens array for adaptive light-field imaging” is a collaborative work with scholars from Nanjing University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, and Jilin University.
You may get a glimpse of the research work in the paper located at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74606-8.
Prof H C So has been elected a Member of the European Academy of Engineering 2026 in the Computer Science and Information Technology Class. This prestigious honour is a mark of exceptional achievement and recognizes his sustained and outstanding contributions to the advancement of engineering and technology.
Prof So's research interests include detection and estimation, fast and adaptive algorithms, multidimensional harmonic retrieval, robust signal processing, source localization, and sparse approximation.
The European Academy of Engineering, established in 1992, represents the highest academic authority in the field of engineering and technology in Europe. Members are elected by their peers across 13 specialized engineering classes.
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Prof So is recognized for his sustained contributions to signal processing and machine learning, particularly in sparse recovery, matrix completion, robust estimation, source localization, and federated learning. His recent work, featuring advances in sparsity inducing regularizers, robust low rank matrix recovery, and byzantine resilient learning under heterogeneity, has strengthened the theoretical foundations and practical reliability of AI systems.
The NAAI is an academic organization that brings together a distinguished community of scientists, engineers, scholars, innovators, and technology leaders from around the world dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence, scientific innovation, interdisciplinary research, and global academic collaboration.
Prof K M Luk (Chair Professor of EE) and Dr Zhao Liangliang (Postdoc) have won the Best Paper Award at 2026 Cross Strait Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference (CSRSWTC 2026) for the paper titled “A Low-Profile and Ultrawideband Tightly Coupled Dipole Array (TCDA)”.
Dr Wang Shi Tong (Postdoc), Prof Zhu Lei (Chair Professor of Macau University), and Prof Steve Wong (Professor of EE, corresponding author), also received the Best Paper Award at the conference. The winning paper is titled “A Circuit-Free Harmonic-Absorptive Antenna Technique Based on Direct Resistive Loading”.
CSRSWTC, an international conference sponsored by IEEE, has been taking place annually in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao since 1998. It is an extraordinary platform for idea exchange in the field of radio science and wireless communications. This year, 563 papers were accepted for presentation. The papers authored by these EE teams are two of the 6 papers being selected for the Best Paper Awards.
Prof S C Tan, Chair Professor of EE, has been selected to receive the IEEE Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award 2026 by the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), for his contributions to nonlinear and robust control of power electronics systems.
The IEEE Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award honors innovators and researchers who have made outstanding and sustained technical contributions to the advancement of power electronics in modeling and control.
This is a prestigious IEEE Power Electronics Society’s award for technical achievement in modeling and control. It is a great honor to be recognized.
The National Award for Excellence in Innovation is jointly organized by the China Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. Conferred on a triennial basis, this award recognizes professionals and organizations that have made exceptional contributions in fundamental research, frontier exploration, major equipment and engineering projects, transformation of research outcomes, innovation and entrepreneurship, and social services.
Widely recognized as a top honor in the industry, only 229 scientists and technologists nationwide have been selected for this award. This achievement underscores Prof Cheung’s outstanding academic accomplishments and his significant impact on the field.
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Prof Chaoliang Tan (Associate Professor) has been awarded GCIM Early Career Award 2026 presented by Materials Research Society of Korea at the 4th Global Conference of Innovation Materials (GCIM), in recognition of his exceptional research making a significant impact and advancement in the field of materials research.
GCIM serves as an international platform for showcasing cutting-edge research and fostering global collaboration in materials science and technology. This year, it features 16 symposia spanning a wide range of topics, including advanced electronics and semiconductors, energy materials and conversion technologies, biomedical and biointegrated materials, computational and structural materials, and materials for environmental sustainability.
Prof Ray Cheung, Associate Provost (Digital Learning), Director of the Institute of Future Learning, and Professor of EE, has been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award (OTA) 2025–26 by the College of Engineering (CENG), in recognition of his exceptional contributions to student learning and his dedication to promoting excellence in teaching.
Prof Cheung is deeply committed to fostering an innovative, interactive, and student-centered learning environment. By integrating team-based learning with digital and collaborative approaches, he empowers students to take an active role in their own learning journey. This marks the second time Prof Cheung has received this prestigious award, a testament to his sustained excellence in teaching.
Since its establishment in 2019/20, the CENG OTA has been awarded to only a select number of faculty members, with five recipients from EE to date. This recognition highlights the strong commitment within our Department to teaching excellence. We will continue to strive for further achievements in both teaching and research in the years ahead.