Dr. Tak-keung Liang, PhD graduate of our Department last year, has won the HKIS Young Scientist Award 2005, Engineering Science Panel. The award was annouced and presented at the Annual Conference of Hong Kong Institution of Science held at Polytechnic Univ last Saturday. The title of his work is "Optical amplifiers and nonlinear switching devices on silicon waveguides". The thesis supervisor of Dr. Liang is Prof. HK Tsang.

Dr. Liang won the Outstanding Thesis Award 2004 of Engineering Faculty, CUHK for his thesis entitled "Silicon Planar Lightwave Circuits: Raman Amplification and Polarization Processing" last year and is also one of the recipients of the Award for the Best Research Output by Research Postgraduate Students 2004, CUHK. He is now working in National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan.

Congratulations to Dr. Liang and Prof. Tsang !