Honors & awards

2019
  • OSA/Corning Women in Optical Communications Scholarship awarded to Yun Gao at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), March 2019.
  • OSA/Corning Women in Optical Communications Travel Grant awarded to Honghui Zhang at Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), March 2019.


2018
  • CLEO-Pacific Rim Best Paper Award – H. Wu, L. Wang, Z. Zhao, N. Guo, C. Shu, and C. Lu, “Processing differential Brillouin gain spectrum by support vector machine in DPP-BOTDA” in CLEO-PR, July-Aug 2018.
  • Nokia Bell Labs US/Holmdel Summer Internship awarded to Q. Zhang.
  • IEEE Photonics Conference Women in Photonics Travel Grants awarded to Q. Zhang.


2017
  • IEEE Photonics Conference Women in Photonics Travel Grants awarded to J. Liu
  • Outstanding Tutor Award awarded to J. Liu
  • CUHK Reaching Out Award received by B. Zheng


2016
  • HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers (Shortlisted) – C. Huang and C. Shu, “Effective suppression of nonlinear distortion in optical phase conjugation of optical OFDM signals using backward Raman pumping,” HKIE Transactions, vol. 23, 4, pp.214-221, Dec 2016.
  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) Award received by H. Zhang


Other notable awards
  • 2013 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) Award received by J. Liu.
  • 2009 IEEE Photonics Society (HK) Postgraduate Conference Best Paper Award First Prize – G. K. P. Lei and C. Shu, “4 × 10 Gb/s time and wavelength multicasting with NRZ to RZ format conversion using four-wave mixing in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber,” Nov 2009.
  • 2009 OECC IEEE Best Student Paper Award – G. K. P. Lei and C. Shu, “Conversion of 40 Gb/s OTDM to 4×10 Gb/s WDM channels with extinction ratio enhancement by pump-modulated four-wave mixing using time- and wavelength-interleaved laser pulses,” Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, July 2009.
  • 2008 HKIS Young Scientist Award Special Merit received by M. P. Fok.
  • 2008 Hong Kong Croucher Foundation Scholarship awarded to Sharon S. H. Lee for Ph.D. study at Cambridge University
  • 2008 AOE Best Student Paper – A. Cheng, M. P. Fok, and C. Shu, “All-Optical tunable delay line for channel selection in OTDM demultiplexing,” Asia Optical Fiber Communication and Optoelectronic Exhibition and Conference, Nov 2008.
  • 2008 IEEE Photonics Society (HK) Postgraduate Conference Best Paper Award First Prize – Y. Dai, M. P. Fok, and C. Shu “Polarization-insensitive delay-asymmetric nonlinear loop mirror for variable bit-rate DPSK demodulation” Nov 2008.
  • 2007 CUHK Best Research Output by Research Postgraduate Student Award received by M. P. Fok.
  • 2005 IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Award received by M. P. Fok.
  • 2005 CLEO-Pacific Rim Best Student Paper Award – S. H. Lee, K. K. Chow, C. Shu, and C. Lin, “All-optical ASK to DPSK format conversion using cross-phase modulation in a nonlinear photonic crystal fiber,” July 2005.
  • 2005 STFOC Outstanding Paper Award – M. P. Fok, W. W. Tang, and C. Shu, “Optical pulse repetition-rate multiplication by spectral elimination using a birefringence loop mirror filter,” International Symposium on Technology Fusion of Optoelectronic and Communications, May 2005.
  • 2004 HKIS Young Scientist Award received by K. K. Chow.