News and Update
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2019-01-04
CUHK Appoints Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
The Council of The Chinese University of Hong Kong has approved the appointment of Professor Martin D.F. Wong as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering with effect from 4 January 2019. He will serve for a term of 5 years. Professor Wong is also appointed as Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Professor Martin D ... -
2018-12-14
CUHK Team Develops a Rapid On-Site Method for Detecting Influenza Virus and Wins Gold Award in iGEM Competition
A genetic engineering team of 12 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Engineering, the School of Biomedical Science of the Faculty of Medicine, and the School of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Science has been awarded a Gold medal at the international ... -
2018-11-21
Faculty of Engineering Launches Master of Science in Financial Technology in Hong Kong
Financial Technology (FinTech), an emerging industry that enhances convenience and efficiency in financial activities through the adoption of data-oriented and smart technologies, is bringing revolution to the financial service sector. The development of innovations such as virtual bank and blockchain ... -
2018-09-24
Mourning Professor Sir Charles K. KAO
Dear Colleagues and Students, It was with great sadness that we received the news that Professor Charles Kao, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2009 and former VC of the University, has passed away yesterday. Professor Kao has been an outstanding scholar, a ... -
2018-08-28
Information Engineering Team Discovers Vulnerabilities of Single Sign Code
A team of the Department of Information Engineering has recently won the third place of the 2018 Internet Defense Prize and a research grant of US$40,000 funded by Facebook at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium held in the US. Their award was for their contribution to the critical analysis of the ... -
2018-08-08
MIE Student Wins Bronze Award of the ASM Technology Competition
Mr. Ng Ka Lok from Mathematics and Information Engineering Programme has won the Bronze Award of the ASM Technology Competition with his project titled “A Secure Deep Neural Network Framework with Trusted Processors”. He received a scholarship award of $20,000 and an invitation to a Technology Tour to Munich, Germany arranged by ASM in ... -
2018-06-27
Engineering Students Receive Championship on PwC HackaDay
A team of students has won championship on the PwC HackaDay 2018. It was the second time CUHK students shone in the same hacking competition for two consecutive years. HackaDay is a CTF cybersecurity contest for undergraduate students from universities in Hong Kong, which aimed at increasing the general awareness of the importance of ... -
2018-05-17
Prof. Raymond Yeung Develops BATS Code for Efficient Network Transmission
A research team led by *Prof. Raymond W. Yeung*, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding (INC) at CUHK, has invented *BATched Sparse code (BATS code)* to improve the network transmission rate of networks with packet loss. It is one of the world’s ... -
2018-04-30
Engineering Students Receive Championship at Hacking Contest
A team of students has won in the VXCTF 2018, a Capture-the-Flag (CTF) hacking contest hosted by the international hacker conference VXCON in Hong Kong. During the competition, participants were required to exercise different skillsets in Information Security and Computer Science for challenges including web, cryptography, reverse ... -
2018-04-09
Information Engineering Professor's Paper Selected for 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award
The paper titled “Network Information Flow” is among those selected for 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award. This year, there are a total of six selected papers for this award. Rudolf Ahlswede, Ning Cai, Shuo-Yen Robert Li and Raymond W. Yeung, “Network Information Flow,” 46(4), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, ...
