BME Student awarded Link University Scholarship 2022/23

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Tiffany Choi from the Department of Biomedical Engineering has won the $20,000 Link University Scholarship in recognition of her outstanding achievements in academic studies and community services. Although schoolwork has been keeping her busy, she still manages to find time for volunteering. This summer she took part in Link’s volunteer month activities.
 
Tiffany said, “I like to explore things outside of academic subjects. The more I see and learn, the more I can broaden my horizon.” She took part in the project of Food Angel, another Link-sponsored program, a few months ago. For the project, she went to fresh markets in Lok Fu to collect vegetables and fruits and turn them into meal boxes.  While taking part in the activities, she was stunned by the extent of the wealth gap between the rich and the poor in a prosperous city like Hong Kong. 
 
“If it wasn’t for this experience, I would have no idea about the number of people who are dependent on free meals. Their situations were made worse by the fifth wave of the pandemic, which has taken away many people’s jobs.”
 
Besides helping people, volunteering gives Tiffany the opportunity to see the different segments of society and to make friends with people from different background. This has greatly broadened her life experience. As for the $20,000 scholarship, Tiffany said part of it will be used to pay off tuition fee, while some will go into her savings – she plans to apply for the exchange program to Australia or Europe next year and would need money to cover her living expense abroad. She has also applied for this year’s Link Scholarship and she will continue to take time off her studies and learn more about things happening outside the campus.
 
Supported by Link Together Initiatives, the annual Link University Scholarship program aims to nurture young people and encourage upward mobility. Launched in 2015 and with no income screening requirement, it aims to support students who are the first among the three generations in their families to attend university. This year, 220 awardees were selected from over 2,000 applicants in the 11 universities across Hong Kong. 
 
(extracted from the news article issued on 7 Dec 2022 by HK01 and Link) 

Tiffany Choi

 

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領展奬學金培育大學生　助己助人

在每個人的成長階段，隨着生活圈子擴闊，對事物往往有不同的看法。在香港中文大學主修生物醫學工程的蔡學兒（Tiffany）便喜歡走出校園，認識不同背景人士和探索在校園看不見的社會另一面，從而擴闊眼界。

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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HK01
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Name: 
NGUYEN Viet Anh
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Assistant Professor
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Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
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nguyen [at] se.cuhk.edu.hk
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3943-8462
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CUHK Engineering Professors Elected IEEE Fellow 2023

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2022-11-22
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Three professors from the Faculty of Engineering have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2023. There are currently 41 IEEE Fellows in the Faculty of Engineering at CUHK.

 

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Department

Contribution

Professor Anthony Man-Cho So

Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

Optimization in signal processing and communications

Professor Fung Yu Young

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Electronic design automation in VLSI physical design

Professor Li Zhang

Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering

Micro-/nanorobot swarms and platforms for translational biomedicine

 

About IEEE

The IEEE is the world's largest professional organisation dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, with more than 409,000 members in over 160 countries. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognised by the technical community as a prestigious honour and an important career achievement. The total number of recipients each year does not exceed 0.1% of the total voting IEEE membership.

 
 

 

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XUE Tian Fan
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Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor
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Information Engineering
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tfxue [at] ie.cuhk.edu.hk
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3943 5255
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Fintech in Algo Trading and Asset Management

Topic: Fintech in Algo Trading and Asset Management
Date: 7 December 2022 (Wed)
Time:  4:30 - 5:30p.m.
Venue: Emerald Room, CUHK Business School Town Centre
(Unit B, 1/F, Bank of America Tower, 12 Harcourt Road, Central, Hong Kong)
Language: English
Register:  https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=1799765
Fee: Free Registration

Speaker:
Dr. Alfred MA - Managing Director, CASH Algo Finance Group
 

Moderator:
Prof. CK Chan - Programme Director, MSc FinTech, Faculty of Engineering
Professor of Practice in FinTech
Secretary, CUHK Engineering FinTech Applied Research (CEFAR) Academy

 

Abstrast

In this talk, the speaker will share the future outlook of algo trading in Hong Kong from a perspective of a FinTech company focusing on algo trading for years. In particular, Dr Alfred Ma will share his point of view on how easy/difficult a retail investor can deploy their only algo trading strategies and what the implications would be accordingly. Some differences between algo trading at the retail level and institutional level will also be discussed. Academic research as well as his experience in algo trading started from 2009 will be shared.

 

Biography

Dr. Alfred MA

Dr. Alfred MA is a FinTech practitioner and researcher. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Columbia University, and an MPhil and BSc in Mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a CFA charter holder, Professional Risk Manager (PRM), Associate of Society of Actuaries (ASA), and Chartered Engineer (CEng). He has more than 5 years of full-time and part-time teaching experience in quantitative finance area in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University. He has published more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Computational Finance, Journal of Financial Data Science, and Journal of Trading.


Alfred is now a managing director in CASH Algo Finance Group (CAFG) which started the first algo trading strategy in 2009 and officially entered the FinTech space at HKSTP in 2016. CAFG obtained the various FinTech awards including Fintech of the year 2018 (start up) by etnet. It managed funds both in Hong Kong and China. CAFG has also been training new algo trading strategists in Hong Kong and organized two times inter-university algo trading competition with participants from top universities in both Hong Kong and China including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University.


 

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中大與建築公司合研大廈外牆工作專用線控機械人 解決高空工作危險等問題

中大研究團隊與建築公司合作，研發出專門在大廈外牆工作的線控機械人。
機械人系統結合了纜索機械及機械臂，可以執行玻璃清潔、塗漆等高空工作。
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Thursday, November 17, 2022
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中大研發高空工作線控機械人　可應用於建築工地　冀達「零意外」

中文大學工程學院劉達銘教授帶領的團隊成功研發「外牆高空工作線控機械人」，是首個能模仿工人在外牆抹窗及塗漆工作的機械系統，除有助紓缓近年建造業人手短缺問題外，亦可降低高空工作的風險。機械系統現時安装於中大校園內的一座大樓外牆進行測試，未來可應用於建築地盤，期望達致「零意外目標」。

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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A research team from CUHK Faculty of Engineering and Chun Wo jointly develop cable-driven robot for high-rise building facades

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With Hong Kong’s construction industry plagued by manpower shortages over the past few years, safety has never been more important. As a first, a research team led by Professor Darwin Lau Tat Ming, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Faculty of Engineering, has developed a cable-driven robot which accurately mimics human movement to clean building windows and paint facades. The system is expected to replace human wiper and roller-based window cleaning and facade painting works at high-rise buildings, helping to relieve the industry’s labour shortages, reducing occupational hazards.
 
Gondola systems are commonly used to carry workers to clean windows and paint the facades of high-rise buildings. However, the dangerous, harsh working conditions, particularly the effects of heat, wind and rain, extended working hours and high cost of insurance result in a lack of skilled workers and high labour costs. To address this problem, Professor Lau’s team has developed a cable-driven robot system that alleviates the dependence on labour. The movement of the robot and its platform can be programmed to clean windows or paint automatically. The system is also unique in that it combines the dexterity of robot arms with the cable-driven robot’s ability to work at large scales and perform complex movements. The system can also operate on surfaces that are not completely flat, making it more widely applicable.
 
With funding support by the Innovation and Technology Fund and Chun Wo Construction Holdings Company Limited (Chun Wo), a robotic system has been set up outside a building on the CUHK campus to study its applicability in a real-world environment. Chun Wo has already applied for a patent and intends to use it on construction sites after conducting further research. The company has also provided data to train the robot’s gestures so it cleans windows like a human worker.
 
Professor Darwin Lau Tat Ming remarked, “With the increasing demands on housing and an ageing workforce, the development of building construction and maintenance robotics technology potentially represents a game-changer both for construction workers as well as industry and the wider community. With the use of the system, workers will no longer be exposed to high-risk environments or work in mid-air, helping to reduce accidents. This is an exciting university-industry collaboration that has received generous support from government and Chun Wo, and we believe this novel technology will deliver exciting benefits.”
 
Sr Stephen Lee Ka-lun, Chairman of Chun Wo Construction Holdings Company Limited, said, “Chun Wo has been actively cooperating with various universities and R&D companies to develop various technologies to improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency in the construction industry. The cable-driven robot jointly developed with CUHK not only solves the labour shortage problem but also reduces the risks faced by frontline workers working at heights and is expected to achieve the goal of zero accidents. Chun Wo is glad to cooperate with the industry or other stakeholders in the market in any way to share the achievements of our innovation & technology projects.”l

(From left) Sr Stephen Lee Ka-lun, Chairman, Chun Wo Construction Holdings Company Limited, Professor Darwin Lau Tat Ming, Associate Professor, CUHK Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering.

The cable-driven robotic system has been set up outside a building on the CUHK campus to test and demonstrate it.

The cable-driven robot can mimic human movement to clean building windows and paint facades. The system is expected to replace human wiper and roller-based window cleaning and facade painting works at high-rise buildings, helping to relieve the industry’s labour shortages. The photo shows the demonstration of window cleaning.

 

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Professor Jianbin Xu and Professor Ching Ping Wong named Most Highly Cited Researchers

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Professor Jianbin Xu and Professor Ching Ping Wong from Department of Electronic Engineering have earned the honour of being named in the list of “Highly Cited Researchers 2022” as among the world’s top researchers who have demonstrated significant and broad influence reflected in their publication of multiple papers, highly cited by fellow academics.
 

Department of Electronic Engineering’s professors listed in the cross-field of “Highly Cited Researchers 2022” are as follows:

Professors Research Areas
Prof. Jianbin Xu, Professor, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringTwo-dimensional optoelectronic materials and devices, photodetection, optical signal modulation, thermal management materials
Prof. Ching Ping Wong, Emeritus Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringMaterials for electronics, photonics and renewable energy harvesting and storages

“Highly Cited Researchers 2022”, released by the Clarivate Analytics, identifies the most influential researchers as determined by their peers around the world. The honour is given to researchers who published a high number of papers that rank in the top 1% by citations in their respective fields of study and year of publication. Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers™ are 1 in 1,000. The 2022 list includes 6,938 highly cited researchers in various fields.
 

For the full list of “Highly Cited Researchers 2022”, please refer to: https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/

Prof. Jianbin Xu, Professor, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering

 

Prof. Ching Ping Wong, Emeritus Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering

 

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