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2020-10-21
Prof. Calvin Chan Elected Fellow of the Optical Society 2021
Prof. Calvin CK Chan from the Department of Information Engineering has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) in the class of 2021. This year, this distinction was awarded to 118 OSA members, from 24 countries/regions, who have contributed to the advancement of optics and photonics through... -
2020-10-09
CUHK PhD Student Wins the Championship at Global College AI Training Camp
Hao XU, a PhD student from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK, and his teammates designed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can automatically generate a mini-figure brick model in the DeeCamp 2020, winning them the championship against 37 teams from all over the world. The... -
2020-09-20
Prof. Michael R. Lyu Receives the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award
Professor Michael R. Lyu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has received the 13th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), for his outstanding contribution to the theory and applications of software reliability engineering. Established... -
2020-09-16
Engineering Team Developed Ultra-sensitive Gas Sensing and Control System
Coal-fired thermal power plants are the main source of electrical power in China, accounting for more than 60% of the total power generation. They are also the main source of air pollutant emissions. A large number of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) are produced in coal combustion, which are toxic gases in various... -
2020-08-31
New AI Approach to Investigate Multiple Gene Regulatory Mechanisms Concurrently For the Advancement of Biomedical Research
A research team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has developed a new Gene Expression Embedding frameworK (GEEK), which uses artificial intelligence technologies in machine learning and natural language processing to study the regulation of gene expression. In contrast to previous works that focused... -
2020-07-23
A Breakthrough by CUHK Engineering and University of Warwick Teams T-ray Camera Speed Boosted a Hundred Times Over
A research team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the University of Warwick has reached a crucial milestone towards developing single-pixel terahertz radiation (T-ray) imaging technology. Their single-pixel T-ray camera reached 100 times faster acquisition than the previous state-of-the-art without adding any ... -
2020-07-20
A Breakthrough in Photonic Integration by CUHK Engineering Team Facilitating High-speed Optical Communication to Meet the Increasing Demand
The ever-increasing growth in data traffic requires more powerful transmission networks. To respond to such demand, a group of researchers led by Prof. Xiankai Sun and Prof. Hon Ki Tsang in the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has recently revealed a way to use light to convey large rates ... -
2020-07-03
Dean of Engineering Elected HKAES Fellow
Professor Martin D.F. Wong, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (HKAES) in December 2019. The Induction Ceremony took place on 30 June 2020. A world-renowned scholar and expert on electronic design automation (EDA), Prof. Wong has published over 450 ... -
2020-06-09
Prof. Ming Yu To Receive 2020 Microwave Application Award by IEEE MTT-S
Prof. Ming Yu, Department of Electronic Engineering has been selected for the 2020 Microwave Application Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) for his contribution to the development of computer aided and robotic tuning for filters and multiplexers. The award recognizes an individual or team of no more than ... -
2020-05-25
Revealing the Role of Water Vapour in Methanol Atmospheric Reaction
A research team led by Prof. Wei Ren has adopted high-level quantum chemistry calculations to provide a definitive answer to the role of water vapour in some important atmospheric reactions. The new findings will enable a more accurate and reliable prediction of air pollution and atmospheric chemistry. Volatile organic compounds ( ...
