Prof. Lyu Rung Tsong Michael from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been elected Fellow by The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - an authoritative international engineering organization - for his remarkable contributions to the theory and practice of software reliability engineering.  This year, 42 are named ACM Fellows worldwide and Dr. Lyu is the only one from Hong Kong.  ACM fellowship is the organization’s most prestigious membership grade which only the top 1% of its members fulfills the strict criteria to receive. 

Since the establishment of the ACM Fellows programme in 1993, only a few Hong Kong scholars have received the honor, all of them top computer scientists. With Dr. Lyu newly elected, the total number of ACM Fellows in CUHK has risen to 4.  The other three ACM Fellows are Prof. Benjamin Wah, CUHK Provost; Prof. Andrew Yao, CUHK Distinguished Professor-at-Large and winner of the prominent A.M. Turing Award; and Prof. John Lui, Associate Dean in Research, Faculty of Engineering, and the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at CUHK. 

“I am truly honored to have received this prestigious fellowship from ACM,” Dr. Lyu said. “Having worked in CUHK for almost 18 years, I am grateful for the support from my colleagues and the University.  In the years ahead, I will continue to advance software reliability engineering techniques for enabling correct functionality of the automatic systems in the daily life of our modern society.” 

Dr. Lyu is an international expert in the area of software reliability engineering and software fault tolerance.  His research interests lie in software engineering, dependable computing, distributed systems, cloud computing, services computing, big data analytics, and machine learning. He has participated in more than 30 industrial projects in these areas, and helped to develop many commercial systems and software tools.  In addition, Dr. Lyu has published over 480 refereed journal and conference papers in his research areas. He also co-edited two books on software reliability, which have received enthusiastic responses from both academia and industry. Dr. Lyu was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2004 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007. He was also named Croucher Senior Research Fellow in 2008 and IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year in 2010.

About ACM

ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.

Prof. Jianwei Huang from the Department of Information Engineering has been named an IEEE Fellow, effective January 2016. He is being recognized for contributions to resource allocation in wireless cellular and cognitive radio systems, and his seminal work on the economics based analysis and design of modern wireless communication systems.

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed 0.1% of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. At the age of 37, Prof. Huang is the youngest among the three newly elected IEEE Fellows from Hong Kong, and the only one from CUHK this year.

Prof. Huang received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2005, and joined CUHK in 2007 after working as a Postdoc Research Associate at Princeton University for two years. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Network Communications and Economics Lab (ncel.ie.cuhk.edu.hk). His main research interests are in the area of network economics and games, with applications in wireless communications, networking, and smart grid. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (2015-2016).

Prof. Huang is the co-recipient of eight International Best Paper Awards, including IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2011, and Best (Student) Paper Awards from IEEE WiOpt 2015, IEEE WiOpt 2014, IEEE WiOpt 2013, IEEE SmartGridComm 2012, WiCON 2011, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, and APCC 2009. He received the CUHK Young Researcher Award in 2014 and IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2009. He has co-authored four books, five ESI highly cited papers, and close to 200 papers and book chapters in top international venues. He has been serving as Editors and Guest Editors of several leading international journals and magazines, including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Network, and IEEE Communications Magazine. He has served as Chair of IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee, and Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Cognitive Network Technical Committee. He is the recipient of IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award in 2015 and IEEE GLOBECOM Outstanding Service Award in 2010. For more details, please see http://jianwei.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/.