Engineering Students Win Awards in the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

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2021-07-12
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The 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held at Hong Kong Science Park in May. CUHK Engineering students showed active and exemplary participation, winning a number of awards in the competition in the Innovation category and Entrepreneurship category.
 
The CUHK Engineering team projects awarded First-class is “Miniaturised Robotic Steerable Surgical Drill for Confined-Space Bone Work”, both in the category of Innovation.
 
Innovation First-class Award: Miniaturised Robotic Steerable Surgical Drill for Confined-Space Bone Work
The human body structure is highly complex and irregular. In conventional orthopedic surgery, doctors have to remove a considerable amount of healthy tissue in order to gain access to the target surgical sites with straight and rigid surgical tools. This will lead to postoperative pain and complications, so prolonging hospital stays and recovery time. WANG Yan, LIN Hongbin, and WANG Xuchen, PhD students from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE), supervised by Professor AU Kwok Wai Samuel of the MAE Department, developed a miniaturised steerable surgical drill for bone work in a confined space. The miniaturised dimension (with a diameter of 4.5 mm) and considerably enhanced distal steerability (±65 degrees) enable doctors to access target surgical sites through small incisions while steering around anatomical corners minimises intraoperative harms on the patient during the process. This articulated drill tip is integrated into a lightweight (200 g) pen-style handheld device, which is easy to use and adaptable to existing surgical procedures. The handheld device can also be optionally mounted on a robotic arm for higher-precision autonomous control. Potential applications of the device include surgery on ENT, the cranial base, and the spine. The project has also been awarded First Runner-up in the Postgraduate group in the 2021 Professor Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Awards.
 
List of CUHK awarded projects is provided below:
 

Category

Prize

Project

Students

Affiliated Department

Innovation

First

Miniaturised Robotic Steerable Surgical Drill for Confined-Space Bone Work

Wang Yan, Lin Hongbin, Wang Xuchen,

Mechanical and Automation Engineering

Second

Highly Dynamic Nanocomposite Hydrogels Self-assembled by Metal Ion-ligand Coordination

Yuan Wei Hao, Yao Zhi, Lai Chun Him Nathanael, Guo Jia Xin,Tung Lok Him, Xu ShunXiang

Biomedical Engineering

Second

Automated Ultrasound Guided Needle Tip Tracking System

Yan Wanquan

Mechanical and Automation Engineering

Third

Age-Induced Deterioration of Neuro-Muscular Junction in Sarcopenia: Study on Gene Expression and Morphology

Ng Wing Fai

Biomedical Engineering

Third

Face Untouchable

Tse Man Yan, Ng Tim Ying

Information Engineering

Third

Versatile Soft Robotic Upper Limb Assistive Device for the Physically Challenged

Siu Shi Pan, Wong Chi Ka, Lee Tsz Yan,Wong Sin Yi, Cheung So Yee, Ng Pui Hin

Mechanical and Automation Engineering

Third

A General Framework for Robotics Vision-based and Lidar-based Applications

Liu Kangcheng

Mechanical and Automation Engineering

Third

Robotics for Automatic Operations in Indoor Horticulture Farms

Su Man Ngo Rocco, Lau Chun Kit, Man Cheuk Ying Tiffany, Au Tsz Him Vincent

Mechanical and Automation Engineering

Merit

In Planta Gene Regulation by Nanotechnology

Lau Yolanda Fong Yung, Chiu Yee Ting

Biomedical Engineering

Merit

Virucidal, Reusable and Cost-Effective Respirator

Li Pak Hin

Mechanical and Automation Engineering

Merit

Knee Energy Harvester with Variable Transmission from Walking

Chan Hugo Hung Tin

Mechanical and Automation Engineering

Entrepreneurship

Merit

Aimimi

Cheung Cheuk Nam Janson, Chan Wai Kit, Li Yan Lap, Choi Chun Lok, Kwok Chun Hei, Au Tsz Pok Terrence

Financial Technology

 

 

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CUHK and Zhejiang University Establish Joint Training Scheme for FinTech Talents

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2021-08-05
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In order to meet the demand of the rapidly developing Financial Technology (FinTech) industry, and to promote cooperation between The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Zhejiang University (ZJU) in nurturing talents, the Faculty of Engineering of CUHK and the International Business School (ZIBS) of ZJU initiated collaboration to launch a Joint Training Scheme to train master’s students in the field of FinTech.
 
Witnessed by Prof. Chan Wai-yee, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK and Prof. He Lianzhen, Vice President of ZJU, Prof. Martin D.F. Wong, Dean of Engineering of CUHK and Prof. Ben Shenglin, Dean of ZIBS of ZJU signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding the partnership on 2 August 2021 on behalf of the two parties.
 
The Scheme is an initiative to realize the complementary advantages of the two FinTech related programmes offered by the two universities, namely the Master of Finance (iMF) programme of ZJU and the Master of Science program in FinTech (MSc FinTech) by CUHK. Combining ZIBS’ strength in business training with Engineering Faculty’s strength in technology training, the Scheme will groom the graduates to be all-round talents to serve the FinTech sector in both Hong Kong and mainland China. Students selected for the Scheme will enjoy an accelerated track to complete both the iMF degree and MSc FinTech degree within two years of study, with one year on ZJU campus and one year at CUHK. 
 
The Scheme will commence in the academic year of 2021-22. The first intake is expected to study at CUHK in January 2022. 

Prof. Martin D. F. Wong, Dean of Engineering of CUHK, and Prof. Ben Shenglin, Dean of ZIBS, sign the MOU of the Joint Training Scheme 

Prof. Chan Wai-yee, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK and Prof. He Lianzhen, Vice President of ZJU witness the MOU signing, and are accompanied by (CUHK) Prof. Lee Tan, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Chan Chun Kwong, Programme Director of MSc Fintech, Ms. Wong Wing, Director of China Engagement, Ms. Samantha Wong, Assistant Director of China Engagement; (ZJU) Mr. Haidong Qu, Vice Dean of ZIBS, Dr. Hung-Yi Chen, Assistant Dean of ZIBS and Academic Director of iMF programme, and Ms. Liu Zhengyi, Deputy Director of Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan Affairs Office. 

 

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教資會大學問責協議報告肯定中大整體教學及研究水平

大學教育資助委員會今日（3日）公布大學問責協議報告，學生滿意香港中文大學課程和學習環境，而僱主亦對中大畢業生有很高期望，香港中文大學欣悉結果。
 
中大在2020至2021年學年採取「混合教學模式」，將大部分課堂轉移到線上授課.中大感激全體教職員付出的努力，令面對面或實時網上教學活動均獲得理想的教學和學習效果，而問責協議結果亦顯示其努力得到學生認同，令人鼓舞。
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021
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香港商報
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拓撲絕緣體研究突破 中大發現新自由度

中大工程學院研究團隊宣布，在納米機械拓撲絕緣體中發現了新自由度，有機會開拓新型電腦晶片研究方向。
根據摩爾定律，處理器電晶體數量，每18個月增一倍，功耗也增加一倍；摩爾定律樽頸就是晶片的功耗，以矽作為材料的晶片，處理器消耗功率，約有二成浪費在晶體管柵極漏電，處理器電晶體柵極寬度越短，漏電更嚴重，原因是電晶體過於集中，產生量子隧穿效應，電子像塞車一樣發生碰撞，產生了漏電。晶片解決漏電的各種手段，已走到物理學的極限
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021
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CHEN Yue
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Vice-Chancellor Assistant Professor
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Mechanical and Automation Engineering
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yuechen [at] mae.cuhk.edu.hk
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3943 0501
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陳玥
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HO Tsung Yi
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Global STEM Scholar and Professor
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Computer Science and Engineering
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tyho [at] cse.cuhk.edu.hk
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3943 8408
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Engineering Professors Named RGC Senior Research Fellow and RGC Research Fellow

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2021-07-30
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The Research Grants Council (RGC) has recently announced its funding results for the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) and RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) of the 2021/22 Exercise. Two Faculty members received the awards. Each awardee is being supported with a fellowship grant to cover salary costs for relief teachers and support for research projects, to facilitate their dedication to research.
 
RGC Senior Research Fellow and his project 
 
 
RGC Research Fellow and his project
 

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Professor LUI John Chi-sing

 

Professor ZHANG Li

 

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CUHK Engineering Team Discovers a New Degree of Freedom in Nanomechanical Topological Insulators Exploring Research Directions of New Types of Computer Chips

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2021-07-29
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Topological insulators are a new type of quantum material studied intensely in recent years. They are important for understanding fundamental physics and for applications of semiconductor devices. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was awarded to three scientists for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. Professor Xiankai Sun from the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and his team have discovered a new degree of freedom in nanomechanical topological insulators, which for the first time enables arbitrary manipulation of topological phases on a chip, and lays out the foundation for manufacturing new types of computer chips in the future. This research has recently been published in the world’s top journal Nature Nanotechnology. 
 
Topological insulators are a new phase of matter that behaves as an insulator in their interior but supports the conduction of electrons on their surfaces or boundaries. Inside a material, electrons travel around the lattice and also spin around themselves at high speed. These two types of motion correspond respectively to the orbital and spin attributes of electrons. Conventional research on topological insulators focuses mostly on the spin degree of freedom to explore their potential applications in low-power components, such as quantum computers. But the orbital degree of freedom has seldom been investigated because the electrons in conventional topological insulators can only travel along fixed orbits. 
 
The CUHK research team has made a fundamental breakthrough by realising for the first time experimentally a nanomechanical topological insulator with an auxiliary orbital degree of freedom. The discovery enables topological insulators with arbitrary polarisation phases and also allows the smooth transition on an integrated photonic or phononic platform. As a result, many exotic topological states with unconventional functionalities can be realised, such as backscattering-immune waveguides and fabrication-robust cavities for high-sensitivity sensing. They not only facilitate the development of topological integrated circuits with enhanced functionality and scalability but also significantly enhance the flexibility in constructing topological insulators, and lay out the foundation for manufacturing new types of computer chips in the future. 
 
“The research was conducted successfully on a nanomechanical platform. The concept can be further extended and applied to photonics and acoustics and be used for backscattering-immune signal transport, which is crucial for constructing crosstalk-free, large-scale integrated electronic, photonic, and phononic circuits. The research results will bring a far-reaching impact to optical communication systems for the next-generation internet and to nanochip technologies for the next-generation computers,” said Professor Xiankai Sun. 
 
 

Schematic illustration of topological nanomechanical crystal with an auxiliary orbital degree of freedom.

 

The research team of Professor Xiankai Sun (3rd left).

 

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CUHK Faculty of Engineering’s Raymond W. Yeung Receives 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award, the Highest Honour in Information Theory

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2021-07-21
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Professor Yeung Wai-Ho Raymond, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering, and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been named the recipient of the 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award by the IEEE Information Theory Society for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. This award is the highest honour in the field. He will deliver his Shannon Lecture at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Espoo, Finland. 

Professor Raymond Yeung is a leading figure in the information theory community and a co-founder of the field of network coding, exerting a significant impact in a variety of practical scenarios such as data storage and network communications. The Institute of Network Coding he co-founded has now evolved into a key contributor in Hong Kong that explores and utilises the promises of network coding in practical scenarios. Along with Professor Zhen Zhang of the University of Southern California, he discovered the Zhang-Yeung inequality that established the existence of a new family of information inequalities called non-Shannon type inequalities. These inequalities have inspired a number of follow-on works and continue to be an active area of research at the junction of information theory and mathematics. 

Professor Yeung’s current research at CUHK focuses on applying information theory and network coding ideas to develop better coding algorithms. He has invented the BATched Sparse code (BATS code) that improves the network transmission rate of networks with packet loss. He has recently co-founded and serves as the Director of n-hop technologies Limited, a startup company in Hong Kong Science Park, focusing on the research and development of BATS technology to solve the problem of packet loss in wireless multi-hop networks. The company applies the BATS technology to provide Wi-Fi service in country parks that are not well covered by the cellular network, allowing hikers to use mobile devices to navigate, check weather news, upload pictures to social media, and even for emergency calls. He has also co-founded CU Coding, another emerging startup specialising in network coding data storage and physical-layer network coding.

Professor Yeung has received numerous international awards for his fundamental contributions to information theory and pioneering network coding and its applications, including the 2021 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award and the 2016 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and IEEE. He holds 10 patents on BATS code.

 

 

 

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