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2018-08-28
Information Engineering Team Discovers Vulnerabilities of Single Sign Code
A team of the Department of Information Engineering has recently won the third place of the 2018 Internet Defense Prize and a research grant of US$40,000 funded by Facebook at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium held in the US. Their award was for their contribution to the critical analysis of the ... -
2018-06-21
Prof. Wu Ke-li Revolutionises the World’s Smart Drainage Technology for Wireless, Continuous and Large-Scale Flood and Gas Monitoring
The complexity of our urban drainage system and blockages in it may impose difficulty and danger on performing the onsite inspection and detection of hazardous gases such as sulphur dioxide and methane, and even increase the risk of flooding associated with adverse weather conditions. A certain concertation of methane may potentially ... -
2018-06-14
Prof. Chen Shih-Chi Develops Ultrafast Microscope to Help Tackle Glaucoma and Other Neurological Diseases
A microscope that may help the study of neurological diseases has been developed at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). A team led by Prof. Shih-Chi Chen, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK, has recently developed the first digital holography-based (DH) two-photon excitation ( ... -
2018-06-13
Prof. Wong Kam Fai Appointed in the First Batch of Natural Language Processing Experts of CAAI
Prof. Wong Kam Fai, Associate Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Engineering and Director of Centre of Innovation and Technology, CUHK has been appointed as one of the first batch of national experts by The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) under the category of natural language processing and understanding. A ... -
2018-06-05
CUHK Faculties and MIT Join Forces in Exploring the Future of Teaching and Learning
The Faculty of Engineering, together with the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Social Science, is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore using cutting-edge technology to improve teaching and learning, especially through understanding best practices for flipped classroom teaching via eLearning ... -
2018-06-04
Faculty of Engineering Receives Awards in the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
Research teams from four projects have been awarded in the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Here is a summary of CUHK award-winning projects: *Gold Medal* * *Prof. LIAO Wei Hsin, Mr. GAO Fei *and* Mr. LIU Yannan,* Department of ... -
2018-05-23
SEEM Department Develops Landslide Detection System
A smart landslide detection system developed by a research team led by Professor Cheng Chun-hung, Associate Professor of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management was recognised as one of the latest application-oriented researches that ‘save citizens’ lives’ and has recently won a silver award under the ... -
2018-05-17
Prof. Raymond Yeung Develops BATS Code for Efficient Network Transmission
A research team led by *Prof. Raymond W. Yeung*, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding (INC) at CUHK, has invented *BATched Sparse code (BATS code)* to improve the network transmission rate of networks with packet loss. It is one of the world’s ... -
2018-04-20
Prof. Wong Kam Fai Develops AI Integrated Community-based Dining Recommendation System
Hong Kong has a reputation as a gourmet paradise and there have been numerous dining guides and review platforms offering a wide range of recommendations for tourists. A team led by Prof. Wong Kam Fai, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management has recently developed a personalised recommendation system INCOMIRS (... -
2018-04-19
Prof. Wong Kam Fai Receives the Second-class Award in Scientific and Technological Progress from MoE
A research project “Development and industrialisation of ‘Bilingual Trilingualism’-based retrieval and understanding platform on large scale social media” led by Prof. Wong Kam Fai has received the second-class award in Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ministry of Education (MoE). In collaboration with the ...