Mr. NG Chak Sing won the Best Paper Award in the 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP2015). The paper entitled “DeFrag: Defragmentation for Efficient Runtime Resource Allocation in NoC-based Many-core Systems”.

Xing Wei, Yi Diao, and Tak-Kei Lam supervised by Prof. Yu-Laing (David) Wu won the championship of international ICCAD contest 2014 in the contest problem “Simultaneous CNF Encoder Optimization with SAT solver Setting Selection”.

Wong Kwun Hang, a CS student, won the gold medal in the Boccia of Incheon 2014 Asian Para Games.

Mr. WANG Liang won the Best Paper Award in the 22nd IFIP/IEEE International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip (VLSI-SoC 2014). The paper entitled “Dynamic Programming-Based Lifetime Aware Adaptive Routing Algorithm for Network-on-Chip”.

YUNG, Man Lee, Chan Chun Kit, Keung Nga Fong and Chan Chuen Wai won the champion of the HKIE Joint Institutes Competition 2014. The project named “Visually-impaired Positioning System” is a new guiding system to facilitate the visually-impaired to go out in a more safety way and explore a new place independently with a special designed guide stick.

LIU Xueting and MAO Xiangyu supervised by Prof. Wong Tien Tsin received the Second Prize Award in the IEEE Postgraduate Student Paper Contest 2013. The paper entitled “Stereoscopizing Cel Animations”.

HON Man Hin Jeffrey, HUANG Dawei and CHAN Pak Hay Alan coached by Prof. LAU Lap Chi won the champion in the ACM-ICPC Asia Hangzhou Regional Contest which was held in Oct 2013. This is our first time to win a regional contest in China.

Jianping Shi, a PhD student supervised by Prof. JIA Jiaya Leo, won the 2013 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award.

Miss Siyao Guo and Miss Jianping Shi, PhD student supervised by Prof. Andrej Bogdanov and Prof. Leo Jia, have been awarded the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2013.

Mr. Xiaocheng HU, Prof. Yufei TAO and Prof. Chin-Wan CHUNG (KAIST, Korea) won the Best Paper Award at ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2013.

Dawei HUANG, YUEN Chak Fai, CHAN Pak Hay demonstrated their excellent problem-solving skills, great teamwork, and strong work mentality in an extremely competitive environment.

Siu Wing Oi and Tai Tsz Wai won the 1st runner-up of the Professor Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Awards (PCKKSCA) 2013. Their final year project’s title is “Automatic Chord Identification in Music”.

A team of six engineering undergraduate students supervised by Prof. LEUNG Kwong Sak and Dr. WONG Tsz Yeung ranked 7th out of 43 teams in the Asia Student Supercomputer Challenge 2013 (ASC 13) held in Shanghai, mid April 2013.

PhD student Xiao LIU won the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation Award 2012. His thesis titled “Trace-Based Post-Silicon Validation for VLSI Circuits” won the award in the area of “New directions in circuit and system test”.

CE team “Phoenix” including members LEE Koon Kit, LEE Ching Ching, CHEUNG Wan Ho and YING Peilin won the First Place in “Samsung Hope for Children App Creation Competition”.

YUE Koon Fung & LAM Hung Kei received the Merit Prize in the HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award for students of Electronic Engineering or related engineering fields.

The bi-annual Challenge Cup is considered the premier national competition of extra-curricular technological projects of university students. Students of CUHK won the Hong Kong and Macau Cup, the sixth gold cup CUHK has got in six consecutive competitions.

Xing WEI, Tak Kei LAM , and Yi DIAO, supervised by Prof. Yu-Liang David WU won the first place of the ICCAD 2012 International CAD Contest on the topic of Functional ECO.

Xu He, Tao Huang, Wing-Kai Chow, Ka-Chun Lam, Jian Kuang, Wenzan Cai, supervised by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young won the second place of the ICCAD 2012 International CAD Contest on the topic of Design Hierarchy Aware Routability-driven Placement.

Mr. NG Tsz Ming won the champion in the tertiary section of “Safe and Sustainable Transportation for Tomorrow” Paper Competition which was organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). His paper titled “Optimized Route-Planning System (ORPS)”.

LAU Yat Tin Andy and LAU Kin Wing supervised by Prof. Jia Jiaya Leo, won the Second Runner-up in the 9th Final Year Project Competition of IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter 2012.

Mr. Li Ping, a PhD student supervised by Prof. SUN Hanqiu, won the First Runner-up in the Postgraduate Paper Contest of IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter 2012.

Prof. Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu, Prof. Irwin King, Dr. Hongbo Deng and Prof. Jiawei Han have been awarded the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award for their paper, titled “Modeling and Exploiting Heterogeneous Bibliographic Networks for Expertise Ranking”.

Dr. ZHENG Zibin, a PhD student supervised by Prof. Michael Rung-Tsong LYU, has been selected as the winner of the Faculty’s Outstanding Thesis Award 2011.

Mr Jianye Hao, a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Leung Ho Fung, who won the 1st place as well as the “Best in Discounted Domains” Award in the third Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2012).