News

Sep 28, 2017

Professor Helen Meng, Chairman of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, received 2017 Outstanding Women Professionals and Entrepreneurs Award (OWA) by the Hong Kong Women Professionals & Entrepreneurs Association (HKWPEA) in recognition of her professional accomplishment and service to the society. HKWPEA first organized the Outstanding Women Professor and Entrepreneurs Award in 1999 and it is a tri-annual event. The Award honors and celebrates the achievements of women in Hong Kong. It recognizes women who have made significant contributions to their professionals, Hong Kong’s business environment, and society. They are women of integrity and high moral standards, providing outstanding role models to business leaders, peer and youth alike.

Biography of Professor Helen Meng

Jan 04, 2017

Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management will be launching a new FinTech undergraduate programme for 2017-2018 admissions, for details, please refer to:

http://fintech.se.cuhk.edu.hk

Professor Helen Meng wins the IBM Faculty Award 2016 in recognition of her contributions in research and fruitful partnership with IBM. A video made by IBM of one of the protects is at https://youtu.be/9M-WmBHbx-g

Nov 22, 2016

Professor Helen Meng has been elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association in 2016, “for contributions to multilingual, multimodal human-computer interaction and language-learning technologies.” In 2007, ISCA began its Fellows Program to recognize and honor outstanding members who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of speech communication. The total number of Fellows selected in any one year will not exceed one-third percent of the total ISCA membership in that year. (http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/honors/fellows)

July 29, 2016

This year marks the 25th Anniversary of Microsoft Research and they are highlighting 32 academics worldwide as outstanding collaborators. Details posted at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/outstanding-collaborator-award/.

July 11-15, 2016

ICME has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities. The paper, coauthored with Kun Li, Hao Wang, Shiyin Kang (who are also PhD candidates in SEEM), is entitled “Phonetic Posteriorgrams for Many-to-one Voice Conversion without Parallel Data Training” (http://www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~hccl/publications/pub/2016_paper_297.pdf)