An engineering team has won the Champion at the 8th Greater China Design Competition which was held in Macau on 23-24 March, 2019.  They have designed a set of self-propelled prototypes for energy relay under the theme of "Energy Relay System”. Participants were required to design and develop a scaled-down version of four self‐propelled devices powered by different types of energy sources, which can collectively complete a relay race in the shortest period of time.  

The CUHK team, led by Dr. Li Yiyang, Prof. Xu Dongyan and the assessor Mr. Martin Leung, has competed among eight contesting teams representing eight universities from Hong Kong, Macau and China.  Over the past eight years, CUHK has won five Champions, one First Runner-up Award and one Most Innovative Award.

The Greater China Design Competition is an university student design competition among Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau universities. The aim is to providing a platform for engineering students to demonstrate and share their engineering knowledge to others, while in parallel strengthen their presentation skills by designing an innovative prototype on the topics ranging from environmental to social issues.  

Team Members:  Au Tsz Him Vincent, Bhattacharjya Eshanee, Chung Sing Yin Derick, Fan Chun Yin,  Ho Siu Sum, Ho Ka Wai , Ho Man Kit, Kwok Chun Keung

Two members of the Faculty of Engineering have each received an award from the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and a Faculty alumna has been awarded a distinction by MIT Technology Review for their remarkable achievements. The Faculty is committed to developing innovative technology to improve peoples’ lives and these awards add to the wide recognition of its excellence in artificial intelligence and robotic research.

Mechanical and Automation Engineering’s Team Receives Honours from CAA

Professor Jie Huang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, was honoured with the CAA Excellent PhD Thesis Supervisor Award and Dr. Wei Liu of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering with the CAA Excellent PhD Thesis Award. The CAA is one of the first and top national associations in China. The CAA Excellent PhD Thesis Award aims to promote innovative research and development of automation in China by recognising PhD students in the field of automation. The CAA Excellent PhD Thesis Supervisor Award is to acknowledge thesis supervisors who have made significant contributions to enlighten young scholars. A total of 10 excellent PhD theses were selected out of 500 in the field of automation in 2018. Prof. Huang and Dr. Liu are the only award recipients from Hong Kong and their award winning thesis is “Cooperative Output Regulation of Networked Multi-Agent Systems with Switching Topology”.

Distinguished alumna named one of China's top 35 innovators by MIT Technology Review  

Dr. Jianping Shi, a distinguished alumna of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been selected as one of China's top 35 innovators under age 35 by the world-leading scientific magazine, MIT Technology Review. Dr. Shi joined CUHK through the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme in 2011, and obtained her PhD degree at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2015 with over 10 research publications. She is the research lead for the Intelligence Vehicle Business Unit of SenseTime Group Limited, with more than 50 researchers working in R&D of autonomous driving systems and ADAS product.