Name: 
CHEN Chun
Title ( post ): 
Department Vice-Chairman (Undergraduate) and Associate Professor
Department: 
Mechanical and Automation Engineering
email: 
chunchen [at] mae.cuhk.edu.hk
phone: 
3943 8052
website: 
https://www4.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/peoples/chen-chun/
Area of expertise: 
Indoor air quality: modeling, measurement, and control technologies for indoor air pollutants, including particles, ozone, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds. Energy-efficient buildings: natural ventilation, personalized cooling and heating, and thermal comfort. Aerosol dynamics: computational fluid dynamics simulation, particle dispersion, deposition, penetration, and resuspension. Airborne infectious disease transmission: infectious particle transport in buildings, hospitals, and commercial airliner cabins.
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faculty_member
Chinese Name: 
陳淳
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Name: 
AU Kwok Wai Samuel
Title ( post ): 
Professor
Department: 
Mechanical and Automation Engineering
email: 
samuelau [at] mae.cuhk.edu.hk
phone: 
3943 8328
website: 
https://www4.mae.cuhk.edu.hk/peoples/au-kwok-wai-samuel/
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Chinese Name: 
歐國威
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Educate Hong Kong public on surge in dementia cases, urges wife of stricken Nobel Prize laureate

Gwen Kao opens up on her daily battle looking after the ailing physicist and offers encouragement to other caregivers
Date: 
Monday, July 18, 2016
Media: 
South China Morning Post
Media LInk: 
http://goo.gl/srQ4fT

E-learning is the way forward for quality education in today’s world

Irwin King says we must take risks to turn Hong Kong’s passive culture of rote-learning into creative learning, and the government has made moves in the right direction

Date: 
Friday, July 29, 2016
Media: 
South China Morning Post
Media LInk: 
http://goo.gl/mpWxVd

楊全盛期建平台築智慧城市

智慧城市聯盟召集人楊全盛熱心IT業發展，今年三月發起成立聯盟，他直指，本港現在仍未有智慧城市藍圖，的確較鄰近城市落後，但期望提供平台，為業界及政府擔任橋樑，推動智慧城市發展。他指，不時會將業界項目向政府推介，未來或會推出提供路面狀況資訊系統。楊全盛又認為，政府有部分法例未追上發展，應「拆牆」，同時可多採用本港科研作品作「先導計劃」（Pilot Project），方便業界發展，甚至走出香港。
Date: 
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Media: 
Ta Kung Pao
Media LInk: 
http://www.takungpao.com.hk/hongkong/text/2016/0720/10253.html

創業需要熱誠 種瓜可能得橙

香港軟件行業協會會長楊全盛以自身經驗勉勵年輕人，可一步步的將興趣發展成事業。他指出，現時本港有創投基金等配套支持，創業「近乎零成本」。他又提醒想創業的年輕人「要做有興趣的事，傾注熱誠」，「種瓜，未必今日得到個瓜，可能要時間醞釀，甚至可能收成的是橙」。
Date: 
Monday, July 25, 2016
Media: 
Hong Kong Commercial Daily
Media LInk: 
http://www.hkcd.com.hk/content/2016-07/25/content_3575020.htm

Research in IE Department Bags the 2016 Information Theory Society Paper Award

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2016-07-20
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Prof. Chandra Nair, Department of Information Engineering, and his former doctoral student Yanlin Geng (now an Assistant Professor of ShanghaiTech University) have received the 2016 Information Theory Society Paper Award for their paper, “The Capacity Region of the Two-Receiver Gaussian Vector Broadcast Channel With Private and Common Messages”. The paper was published in the April 2014 issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. A preliminary conference version of this work appeared in 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. 

The paper introduces a new method, radically different from existing ones, for proving the extremality of Gaussian distributions in a family of optimization problems associated with sub-additive functionals in a probability space.  It is part of a larger body of work developed since 2008 regarding extremal distributions in information theory with the students and collaborators of Prof. Nair. This body of work has also resulted in showing the sub-optimality of the Han-Kobayashi region for interference channels (2011-2015) as well as developing a connection between tensorizing parameters in functional analysis and characterizations of the phenomenon using information measures (2013-2016), among other results.

This is the second time that researchers in Department of Information Engineering received this prestigious award.  Prof. Robert Li and Prof. Raymond Yeung obtained the award in 2005 for their work on Network Coding.

The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society. The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding two calendar years.  The list of all award winning papers across all the years can be viewed here.

Bio: Prof. Nair is an Associate Professor of the Department of Information Engineering (IE).  He also serves as the programme director of the Mathematics and Information Engineering programme (MIE) at CUHK, as well as the associate director at the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science and Communication (ITCSC).   His research interests are mainly in developing news tools and techniques to solve fundamental probabilistic and combinatorial problems with an engineering motivation. His work has spanned across multiple disciplines including combinatorial optimization, algorithms, and multiuser information theory. In his doctoral dissertation he resolved a set of distributional conjectures and consequently the Parisi and the Coppersmith-Sorkin conjectures in the Random Assignment problem.


Prof. Chandra Nair and Prof. Yanlin Geng (from left)

 

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Name: 
HO Yi Ping Megan
Title ( post ): 
Department Vice Chairman (Graduate), Professor
Department: 
Biomedical Engineering
email: 
ypho [at] cuhk.edu.hk.
phone: 
3943 4340
website: 
http://www.bme.cuhk.edu.hk/ypho/
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Chinese Name: 
何亦平
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中大生新研究 人臉識別監控血壓

不少長者有心血管病，有效監控血壓可保健康，中大生物醫學工程學碩士研究生盧博文(圖)及電子工程學博士研究生王超群合作研究「人臉識別的連續血壓監控」，盧博文指，對比起傳統的測量儀器，新系統無需使用任何穿戴式設備，可以應用於長時間監護高危人士的健康狀況外，因不需用家「泵氣」和留意提示聲響，有望協助行動及聽覺不良的長者自行測量心跳和血壓。
Date: 
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Media: 
am730
Media LInk: 
http://www.am730.com.hk/article-320882

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