Awards & Honors
2022-23
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. YEUNG Wai Ho, Raymond | Elected NAI Fellow 2022 |
| Mr. ZHAO Zhihe (PhD), Miss LING Neiwen (PhD) and Prof. XING Guoliang |
Won the Best Poster Award at the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2022 |
| Prof. YAN Zhenyu, Prof. XING Guoliang, Mr. SHI Shuyao (PhD) |
Won the Best Paper Award Runner-Up at the 28th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (ACM MobiCom 2022) |
2021-22
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Mr. WONG Pak-Hung (Undergraduate, IE) Mr. FU Tianwen (Undergraduate, MIE) |
Won the Charles Kao Top Performance Award 2021-22. |
| Mr. CHEN Daoyuan (Undergraduate, MIE) Miss CHENG Sum-Yee and Miss MAK Ka-Ling (Undergraduate, IE) Mr. POON Ngai-Man (Undergraduate, IE) |
Won the Final Year Project Awards 2021-22. |
| Prof. YEUNG Wai-ho Raymond | Awarded RGC Senior Research Fellow 2022/23 (Research and Development of Network Coding Technologies) |
| Miss CHENG Sum Yee (IERG undergraduate) Miss MAK Ka Ling |
Won the 2nd runner-up award in the Barrier-free Campus Design Competition for their Final Year project "IE for Better Living" |
| Prof. CHAN Yuen-yan Rosanna | Awarded the IEEE William E. Sayle II Award for Achievement in Education in 2021 |
| Wong Tsz Hin (Undergraduate, CS) Chan King Kai Undergraduate, (CS) Tsang Ho San (Undergraduate, IE) Chan Chun Wai (Undergraduate, IE) |
Won the PwC HackaDay 2021 |
| Mr. ZHANG Lihao (PhD) Prof. WANG Taotao (2015 PhD Alumnus) Prof. LIEW Soung Chang |
Won the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE CPSCOM 2021 |
| Mr. LIN Xingqin (2011 MPhil Alumnus) | Received the 2021 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Early Career Award |
| Prof. YAN Zhenyu | Awarded "Rising Star Award" from ACM SIGBED China Chapter |
| Mr. HU Zihao (IERG undergraduate) Mr. ZHOU Mingjun (MIEG undergraduate) |
Won the Charles Kao Top Performance Award 2020-21. |
| Mr. HUANG Jingdong and Mr. WONG Yu-wai; Miss NG Tim-ying and Miss TSE Man-yan; Miss CHAN Yin-hei Nicole and Mr. CHEUNG Pui-kin (Undergraduates) |
Won the Final Year Project Awards 2020-21. |
2020-21
2019-20
2018-19
2017-18
2016-17
2015-16
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. LEE Yiu Bun Jack | Received the IE Exemplary Service Award 2015-16 |
| Dr. LIU Zhongchang (2015 PhD Alumnus) | Won the Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2015 with his PhD thesis titled "Information Based Control of Linear Multi-agent Systems", supervised by Prof. Wong Wing-shing. |
| Mr. LU Chaochao (2015 IE MPhil Alumnus) | Won the Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2015 with his MPhil thesis titled "Face Verification in the Wild", supervised by Prof. Tang Xiaoou. |
| Mr. LI Cheuk Ting (2012 MAIE Alumnus) | Awarded the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award with his paper titled "Distributed Simulation of Continuous Random Variables". |
| Dr. LUO Yuan (2015 IE PhD graduate) | Received the CUHK Young Scholar Thesis Awards 2015 for her 2015 CUHK PhD Thesis titled "Economics of White Space Network". |
| Dr. CHEN Yi (2012 IE PhD Alumna), Dr. SUNG Chi Wan (1998 IE PhD Alumnus), Dr. Ho Siu Wai (2006 IE PhD Alumnus) and Prof. Wong Wing Shing |
Paper titled "BER Analysis for Interfering Visible Light Communication Systems" won the Best Communication Systems and Network Paper Award of CSNDSP 2016. |
| Mr. NG Ka Lung and Miss PUN Hiu Ying, Mr. CHEN Yu, Miss LEUNG Kit Yee (Undergraduates) |
Won the Final Year Project Awards of 2015-16. |
| Miss LIU Litian (IE Undergraduate), Miss LIU Zihan (MIEG Undergraduate), Mr. NG Wai Ho (MAIE Undergraduate) |
Won the Charles Kao Top Performance Award 2015-16 |
| Prof. ZHANG Yingjun Angela | Elected as the Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
| Prof. NAIR Chandra and Prof. GENG Yanlin (2012 IE PhD graduate) |
Won the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award with the paper titled "The Capacity Region of the Two-Receiver Gaussian Vector Broadcast Channel With Private and Common Messages". |
| NG Ka Lung (Undergraduate), PUN Hiu Ying (Undergraduate) |
Won Silver Award in the China Pan-Pearl River Delta Region University IT Project Competition 2016 with their FYP Project "IoT-based Smart Greenhouse". |
| Mr. KUO Wai Keung (2015 IERG Alumnus) | Awarded Grand Prize in National Competition Challenge Cup, Hong Kong Regional. |
| Miss Ho Ka Man Mandy (2015 IERG Alumna) | Awarded with championship in an Essay Competition "SMART Logistics and Transportation" organized by the Logistics and Transport Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). |
| Dr. LUO Yuan (2015 IE PhD graduate) | PhD student supervised by Prof. HUANG Jianwei received the Postgraduate Research Output Award 2015 |
| Miss LEUNG Kit-yee Yuki (Undergraduate) | Won the Silver Award of the "Best Student Invention Award" (Senior Secondary Group) in the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2016. |
| Mr. ZHOU Bolei (2012 IE MPhil Alumnus) | Won the 2016-2017 Facebook Fellowship Award. |
| Prof. Huang Jianwei | Elevated as IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2016, for his contributions to resource allocation in wireless systems. |
| Mr. DENG Yubin (PhD) | Won the Gold Award in the HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2015 with his undergraduate Final Year Project titled "Attribute based human identification". |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong has been named the world's No.8 most impactful research institutions in telecommunications. The Department of Information Engineering was the only Asian institution on the Thomson Reuters list that published research papers that are the most highly cited by peers. | |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Received the CUHK Young Researcher Award 2014. The Young Researcher Award is nominated by Faculty to recognize young academic staff with exemplary research achievements. In conferring on him this Award, the University recognizes his remarkable and impressive accomplishment in research. |
2014-2015
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Mr. DENG Yubin (Undergraduate) | Undergraduate student supervised by Prof. Sean TANG won the Gold Award of ASM Technology Award 2015 with his Final Year Project titled "Attribute based human identification" |
| Miss MA Qian (PhD) Mr. YU Haoran (PhD) |
PhD students supervised by Prof. HUANG Qianwei received funding support (HKD50,000) from the CUHK Global Scholarship Program for Research Excellence for 2015-16 for their 6-month research visit. Miss MA will go to UIUC while Mr. YU will go to Yale University. |
| Prof. LI Shuo Yen, Robert Prof. YEUNG Wai Ho, Raymond Prof. CAI Ning (Xidian University) |
Received the 2016 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for their pioneering contributions to the field of network coding. |
| Mr. DENG Yubin (Undergraduate) | Undergraduate student supervised by Prof. Cavan LOY Chen-change, won the Undergraduate Individual Champion in Prof. Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Awards 2015. His project titled "Pedestrian Attribute Recognition At Far Distance" facilitates the scientific research in the fields of visual surveillance, human re-identification and general computer vision. |
| Prof. CHAN Yuen-yan Rosanna | Selected as the 2015 recipient of the Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award for her exceptional contribution to the IEEE Education Society and for distinguished leadership in engineering education over a sustained period. |
| Miss MA Qian (PhD) Dr. GAO Lin Prof. LIU Ya-Feng Prof. HUANG Jianwei |
Received the Best Student Paper Award from IEEE WiOpt 2015 with the paper "A Game-Theoretic Analysis of User Behaviors in Crowdsourced Wireless Community Networks". |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from IEEE Communications Society Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) for his exemplary services contributions to MMTC community. |
| Mr. HU Pili (MPhil) | MPhil student supervised by Prof. Lau Wing-cheong has been selected as the winner of the Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2014 with his thesis titled "Decentralized Social Networks - Systems and Algorithms". |
| Mr. ZHANG Xinyan (2004 IE MPhil Alumnus) Prof. LIU Jiangchuan Prof. LI Bo Prof. YUM Tak-shing Peter |
The paper "CoolStreaming/DONet: A Data-driven Overlay Network for Peer-to-Peer Live Media Streaming" won the Test-of-Time Paper Award in IEEE Infocom 2015. |
| Mr. CHENG Man Fai (2008 IERG Alumnus) | Won the Best Innovation Grand Award with a smart glass with Augmented Reality support in HKICT Award 2015. |
| Dr. AU YEUNG Ching-man (2004 IERG Alumnus) | Won the Best Smart Hong Kong Award with the HKBus+ Mobile App in HKICT Award 2015. |
| Prof. CHAN Yuen-yan Rosanna | Received 2014 IEEE Region 10 EA Award on Major Educational Innovation. |
| Mr. LU Chaochao (MPhil) | The paper "Surpassing Human-Level Face Verification Performance on LFW with GaussianFace" won the Outstanding Student Paper Award of AAAI 2015. |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Elected as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for the years of 2015-2016. |
| Prof. ZHANG Yingjun Angela | The paper "Optimal Spectrum Sharing in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks via Semidefinite Programming" coauthored by Prof. Angela Zhang and Prof. Anthony So (Department of System Engineering) has received the 2014 IEEE Comsoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Award. |
| Mr. LIU Litian (Undergraduate, IERG) | IERG Year-3 student selected by the Faculty of Engineering to join Exchange Study in MIT under the Tsinghua-MIT-CUHK tri-lateral student exchange programme in Term 2 of 2014-15. |
| Mr. WANG Yichen (Undergraduate, IERG), Miss DING Li (Undergraduate, IERG) |
Won the first runner-up award in the Final Year Project Competition 2013-2014 with their FYP "Augmented reality with 3D viewer". This competition is organized by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter. |
2013-2014
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. CHOW Sze-ming Sherman | Receive the honorary title of Early Career Award by the Research Grant Council (RGC). In addition to the funding of research, twenty researchers funded under Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2013/14 have received a research grant of HK$100,000 as the award. |
| Prof. WONG Wing-shing | Awarded the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering (卓敏信息工程學講座教授). The award is granted by the University for an initial term of 5 years with effect from August 1, 2014. The title is consolidated efforts to meet the needs of development of the University and to recognize academic staff with distinguished scholastic performance. |
| Prof. CHEN Minghua | Received the CUHK Young Researcher Award 2013. The Young Researcher Award is nominated by Faculty to recognize young academic staff with exemplary research achievements. In conferring on him this Award, the University recognizes his remarkable and impressive accomplishment in research. The Award consists of a plaque and an amount of HK$100,000 in the form of a research grant. |
| Miss LUO Yuan (PhD), Dr. GAO Lin, Prof. HUANG Jianwei |
The paper "Trade Information, Not Spectrum: A Novel TV White Space Information Market Model" has received the Best Paper Award from IEEE WiOpt 2014. |
| Mr. XIN Haiyang (PhD), Miss LUO Yuan (PhD) |
Received an award under the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence 2014-15. XIN Haiyang will undertake a 6-month research attachement at MIT and LUO Yuan will go to University of California, Berkeley. |
| Mr. LU Lian (MPhil) | The M.Phil thesis "Online Energy Generation Scheduling for Microgrids with Intermittent Energy Sources and Co-generation" by LU Lian, supervised by Prof. CHEN Minghua, has been selected the winner of the Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2013. |
| Mr. CHEUNG Kam-fung (Undergraduate, MAIE), Mr. KAN Man-chun (Undergraduate, IERG) |
"Interactive Multimedia Search (IMuSe)", Final Year Project of undergraduate students supervised by Prof. LOY Chen-change Cavan, had been selected as a Pioneer Award Winner of the 2013 Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge. |
| Mr. LI Chak-man Solon, Prof. LAU Wing-cheong |
"Authenticated Papers", a MobiTeC project based on LI Chak Man Solon's IE MPhil thesis was nominated to represent Hong Kong to compete in the R&D Category and won the 13th Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Award. |
| Mr. CAI Sheng (PhD), CHAN Chun-lam (MPhil) |
Two of our Postgraduate students got awards in the 10th HK Student and Research Career Day 2013 co-organized by the Association and Computing Machinery (ACM)-HK and Microsoft Research Asia. CAI Sheng, a Year 4 Ph.D student, got the "Most popular presentation" award (voted for by participants), and CHAN Chun Lam, a Year 1 M.Phil student, was runner-up for the "Junior Research Award" (selected by the Panel). |
| Mr. TIAN Peida (Undergraduate, MAIE) | MAIE Year-3 student selected by the Faculty of Engineering to join Exchange Study in MIT under the Tsinghua-MIT-CUHK tri-lateral student exchange programme in Term 2 of 2013-14. |
| Ms. TANG Wanrong (PhD), Mr. BI Suzhi (PhD) and Prof. Angela ZHANG Yingjun |
Their paper titled "Online Speeding Optimal Charging Algorithm for Electric Vehicles without Future Information" won the Best Paper Award in IEEE SmartgridComm 2013. |
| Mr. LUO Ping (PhD) | A HKPF supervised by Prof. Sean Tang won the 2013 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award. More details can be found at Press Release of CUHK and Microsoft Research. |
2012-2013
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Mr. LI Chak-man (MPhil) | MPhil student supervised by Prof. Lau Wing-cheong won the Postgraduate Individual 2nd Runner-up of Professor Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Awards. His project titled "Authenticated Papers and their Applications" uses high-capacity 2D QR-codes to protect and authenticate paper-based documents and credentials. The scheme supports verification using off-the-shelf smartphones without the need of any network connection. |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei, Dr. GAO Lin |
Their paper titled "An Iterative Double Auction for Mobile Data Offloading" won won a Best Paper Award in WiOPT 2013. |
| Mr. XU Bing (Undergraduate, MAIE), Mr. LIU Ding (Undergraduate, IERG) |
Prof. Sean TANG's former FYP students, Bing XU (IE 2012 graduate) and Ding LIU (IE 2012 graduate) have won the Championship of the IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence 9th Final Year Project Competition. Bing is currently a PhD candidate in IE Department and Ding is pursuing his PhD study at UIUC now. |
| Mr. LU Lu (PhD) | PhD student supervised by Prof. Liew Soung-chang received Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2012 for thesis titled "Asynchronous Physical-layer Network Coding". |
| Mr. ZHOU Bolei (MPhil) | MPhil student supervised by Prof. Tang Xiaoou received Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2012 for thesis titled "Modeling Crowd Behaviors in Video". |
| Mr. LU Tan (MPhil) | MPhil student supervised by Prof. Chen Minghua achieved Honorary Mention for thesis titled "Simple and Effective Dynamic Provisioning for Power proportional Data Centers" in Faculty's Outstanding Thesis Award 2012. |
| Prof. LIEW Soung-chang | Received Research Excellence Award for 2012-13. The Award consists of an amount of HK$200,000 in the form of a research grant. |
| Mr. LU Lu (PhD) | PhD student supervised by Prof. Liew Soung-chang received the Postgraduate Research Output Award 2012 for the research output titled "Asynchronous Physical-Layer Network Coding". |
| Prof. YEUNG Wai-ho Raymond, Prof. TANG Xiaoou Sean |
Two well-deserved honors - the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering (卓敏信息工程學講座教授) for Prof. Raymond Yeung and Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering (工程學院傑出學人) for Prof. Sean Tang, have been granted by the University from 2013-2017 for their prestigious accomplishments. |
| Prof. YUM Tak-shing Peter | Elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the architecture and resource management of communication networks (effective from 1 January 2013) |
| Mr. CHEN Zonghao (Undergraduate, IERG) | Year-3 student selected by the Faculty of Engineering to join Exchange Study in MIT under the Tsinghua-MIT-CUHK tri-lateral student exchange programme in Term 2 of 2012-13. |
| Dr. WANG Zhi, Prof. SUN Lifeng, Mr. CHEN Xiangwen (MPhil), Prof. ZHU Wenwu, Prof. LIU Jiangchuan, Prof. CHEN Minghua and Prof. YANG Shiqiang |
The paper "Propagation-Based Social-Aware Replication for Social Video Contents" by A team of researchers in Tsinghua, CUHK and Simon Fraser University has won the ACM Multimedia (ACM MM) 2012 Best Paper Award. This is the only one best paper award for the conference. |
| Prof. WU Chenye Wu, Prof. Hamed Mohsenian-Rad and Prof. HUANG Jianwei |
uThe paper "PEV-based Reactive Power Compensation for Wind DG Units: A Stackelberg Game Approach," by Chenye Wu, Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, Jianwei Huang just received the IEEE SmartGridComm 2012 Best Paper Award. |
2011-2012
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. YEUNG Wai-ho Raymond | Elected as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society for 2011 and 2012. |
| Prof. ZHANG Yingjun Angela | uReceived the CUHK Young Researcher Award 2011. The Young Researcher Award is nominated by Faculty to recognize young academic staff with exemplary research achievements. In conferring on her this Award, the University recognizes her remarkable and impressive accomplishment in research. The Award consists of a plaque and an amount of HK$100,000 in the form of a research grant. |
| Mr. ZHANG Wei (PhD) | PhD student supervised by Prof. Tang Xiaoou, achieved the top 9 among 40,000 data scientists in Kaggle data mining competition platform in June 2012. He took part in six competitions and won the champion in International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR) 2012 - Arabic Writer Identification contest in April 2012. |
| Mr. YIN Dongjie (PhD) | PhD student supervised by Prof. Tony T. Lee, won the best student paper award in the 21st Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC) 2012 for the paper titled "Throughput Stability and Energy Consumptions of IEEE 802.15.4 Beacon Enable Mode". |
| Mr. CAI Sheng (PhD), Mr. Che Pak Hou (PhD), Miss WANG Qiwen (PhD) |
Received an award under the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence - CNOOC Grants for 2012-13. Mr. Cai Sheng and Mr. Che Pak Hou will undertake a research attachement in California Institute of Technology , USA for 6 months and 3 months respectively; whereas Miss Wang Qiwen will go to MIT for the research attachment for 3 months. |
| Prof. LIEW Soung-chang | Elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to wireless communications and networking (effective from 1 January 2012). |
| Mr. NG Fung Ming (Undergraduate, MAIE) | MAIE Year-3 student selected by the Faculty of Engineering to join Exchange Study in MIT under the Tsinghua-MIT-CUHK tri-lateral student exchange programme in Term 2 of 2011-12. |
| Mr. KAN Man Chun (Undergraduate, IERG) | Year-2 student selected by the Faculty of Engineering to join Exchange Study in Tsinghua University under the Tsinghua-MIT-CUHK tri-lateral student exchange programme in Term 2 of 2011-12. |
| Mr. CHENG Man Fai (MSc) | MScIE Year 2 student has participated in IEEE Hong Kong Competition on Cloud Computing Applications 2011 & won the champion. |
| Mr. BI Suzhi (PhD) Mr. ZHANG Jialiang (PhD) |
Mr. Bi Suzhi and Mr. Zhang Jialiang, PhD students supervised by Prof. Zhang Yingjun and Prof. Liew Soung-chang respectively, won the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence - CNOOC Grants for 2011-12. |
| Mr. LEUNG Ho Tak (Undergraduate, IERG), Mr. MAK King Hei (Undergraduate, IERG) |
Two IE Final Year students won a Certificate of Merit with their project titled "RFID Technology on Sport Retail Store" in the HK RFID Awards 2011. This is an award issued to their Final Year Project 2010-11 supervised by Prof. Huang Jianwei. |
| Mr. ZHOU Bolei (MPhil) | MPhil postgraduate student supervised by Prof. TANG Xiaoou, won the presitigous Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award 2011. |
| Mr. LUO Ping (PhD), Mr. LUO Yuan (PhD), Mr. SUN Yi (PhD), Mr. WANG Limin (PhD), Mr. WANG Taotao (PhD), Mr. YAN Jianzhou (PhD) |
IE won six prestigious Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship awards in 2011-12. This is the most among all Hong Kong institutions.The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) was established by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in 2009, aiming at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD studies in Hong Kong's institutions. |
| Prof. ZHANG Yingjun Angela, Prof. HUANG Jianwei and Miss QIAN Liping (PhD) |
IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications for their paper entitled 'Achieving Global Optimal Solution of Non-Convex Power Control Problems' |
2010-2011
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Dr. Fen HOU and Prof. HUANG Jianwei |
Best Paper Award in IEEE GLOBECOM 2010. The paper is titled "Dynamic Channel Selection in Cognitive Radio Network with Channel Heterogeneity". |
| Mr. LAM Ka Kit (Undergraduate, MAIE) | Awarded the "First Prize" in the IEEE Hong Kong Section 2010 (UG) Student Paper Contest 2010 for the paper titled "Performance Analysis and Optimization of Multipath TCP". |
| Mr. LIU Ding (Undergraduate, IERG) | Selected by the Faculty of Engineering to study at MIT, to be hosted by the renowned CSAIL (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) which is the MIT partner in the Center. This is an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge in his specialties and valuable international experience. |
| Miss WONG Pui King, Angel (PhD) | Best Student Paper Award in "The 2010 Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum". The title of the paper is "Performance Analysis of Markov modulated CSMA Protocols with Exponential Backoff Scheduling". |
2009-2010
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. YEUNG Wai Ho, Raymond | Appointed as Changjiang Chair Professor by Xidian University, Xian. |
2008-2009
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Selected for the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2009. |
| Prof. CHEN Minghua | Best Paper Award at the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award 2009. |
| Prof. CHEN Minghua | Best Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2009). |
| Prof. LI Shuo Yen, Robert | Appointed as "名譽教授" by Xidian University, Xian and as "榮譽講座教授" by National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. |
| Prof. TANG Xiaoou, Sean | Won the best academic paper award at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009. (It is the first time ever for Asians to receive this top honour since the establishment of the conference 25 years ago). |
| Prof. TANG Xiaoou, Sean | Elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to pattern recognition and video processing (effective from 1 January 2009). |
| Mr. HE Kaiming (PhD) | Won the best academic paper award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Tang Xiaoou, the paper title is "Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior". |
| Miss QIAN Liping (PhD) | Received grants from the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence - CNOOC Grants for 2008-09. |
| Miss FU Liqun (PhD) | Received grants from the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence - CNOOC Grants for 2008-09. |
| Mr. LI Weiliang (PhD) | 2007 Received grants from the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence - CNOOC Grants for 2008-09. |
| Mr. NG Cho Yiu (PhD) | Received the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships for Postgraduate Research Students 2008/09. |
2007-2008
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. JAGGI Sidharth | Offered the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship by the University of Texas at Austin (2007-2008). |
| Prof. WONG Po Choi | VChina, a project supervised by Prof. P.C. Wong, received the Outstanding Project Award by the Quality Education Fund (April 2008). |
| Prof. CHIU Dah Ming, Winston | Elected as an IEEE Fellows for contributions to distributed resource allocation algorithms in computer networks (effective from 1 January 2008). |
| Prof. CHAN Yuen Yan, Rosanna | 2007 New Faculty Fellow, Center for the Advancement and Scholarship of Engineering Education, National Academy of Engineering. |
| Mr. CHENG Man Fai, Jordan (Undergraduate) |
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2006-2007
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. LI Shuo Yen, Robert | Outstanding Patent Prize (優質專利獎) awarded by the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan on November 1, 2006. |
| Prof. LI Shuo Yen, Robert | Elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to network coding and switching theories (effective from 1 January 2007). |
| Prof. YEUNG Wai Ho, Raymond | Recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2007. |
| Prof. ZHANG Ying Jun, Angela | Winner of the 2006 Young Scientist Award in Engineering Science granted by Hong Kong Institution of Science. |
| Mr. HUI Ka Yu, William (Undergraduate) (Leader), a joint-U team: with a HKU and a LNU student | Won the Best Presentation Award, Grand Finalist under the supervision of Professor Ng Wai Yin at the Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge 2007 organized by the Commission of Poverty, HKSAR (www.sechallenge.hk). Project name is "Schoolala Academy". |
| Mr. LUO Bing (Undergraduate) Mr. WAN Yujie (Undergraduate) Mr. WANG Fei (Undergraduate) |
Awarded the 1st Runner-up Team held by Communications Association of Hong Kong (CAHK Trophy Inter-universities Quiz Competition) and Honorable Sin Chung-Kai, Legislative Councillor (IT). |
| Mr. ZHANG Sheng (Undergraduate) (Leader), Mr. CHEN Jiawei (Undergraduate) Mr. WANG Xiaoyu (Undergraduate) Mr. ZHANG Jiene (Undergraduate) Mr. ZHAO Xiaoyu (Undergraduate) |
The 1st Runner-up of the Undergraduate Group Entries of the Vice-Chancellor's Cup of Student Innovation 2007, selected by the Expert Panel (project title: "Mobile Chinese Characters", under the supervision of Prof. Wai-Yin Ng) |
| Mr. LIN Dahua (MPhil) | Winner of the 2006 Outstanding M.Phil. Thesis Award, paper titled " Discriminant Feature Pursuit: from Statistical Learning to Informative Learning¡¨ under the supervision of Prof. Tang Xiaoou |
| Mr. LIU Wei (PhD) | Won the Microsoft Fellowship 2006 in Sept., 2006. |
| Mr. DENG Ning (PhD) | Champion of the Best Paper Award at the 7th IEEE (HK Section) LEOS Postgraduate Conference held on December 9, 2006. |
| Mr. KU Yuen Ching (PhD) | Recipient of the Best Presentation Award at the 7th IEEE (HK Section) LEOS Postgraduate Conference held on December 9, 2006. |
| Mr. DENG Ning (PhD) | Winner of the 2006 LEOS Graduate Student Fellowships (top award for students in IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society). |
| Mr. KU Yuen Ching (PhD) | Best student paper award in the 11th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, held at Kaohsiung, Taiwan during July 3-7, 2006. The paper title is "Patterning Effect Avoidance of SOA-based Demultiplexer in 80-Gb/s OTDM System Using RZ-DPSK Modulation Format", co-authored with Dr. Kit Chan, Prof. Chun Kit Chan and Prof. Lian Kuan Chen. |
| Miss HU Yan (PhD) | Best student paper award in the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), held at Vancouver, Canada during April 3-7, 2006. The paper title is "Adaptive Flow Aggregation - A New Solution for Robust Flow Monitoring Under Security Attacks", co-authored with Prof. Dah-Ming Chiu (IE Dept.) and Prof. Chi-Shing Lui (CSE Dept.). |
2005-2006
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. LI Shuo Yen, Robert Prof. YEUNG Wai Ho, Raymond |
Winner of the 2005 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award. Paper entitled "Linear Network Coding" by Prof. S.-Y. Robert Li, Prof. Raymond W.H. Yeung, and Dr. N. Cai. |
| Mr. HO Kwok Shing, Michael (PhD) | Won the best student paper award with the paper titled "Capacity Planning of Link Restorable Optical Networks Under Dynamic Change of Traffic" in the Subcommittee of Network Architecture, Management and Applications in the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference and Exhibition held from Nov.6 to 10, 2005 in Shanghai |
| Mr. NG Ping Chung (MPhil) | Winner of the 2005 Outstanding M.Phil. Thesis Award, paper titled "Offered Load and Stability Controls in Wireless Multi-Hop Ad-hoc Networks" under the supervision of Prof. Soung-Chang Liew. |
| Mr. NG Tung (Undergraduate) |
Won the 8th place in the Regional ACM Programming Contest held in Hangzhou contest. |
| Mr. CHENG Yuk Pong (INE) (Undergraduate) Mr. CHAN Hiu Yeung (Undergraduate) Mr. CHAN Chiu Yeung (Undergraduate) |
Won the honorable mention (32nd place) in the Regional ACM Programming Contest held in Hangzhou contest. |
2004-2005
| Teachers | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. LIEW Soung Chang | Best paper award in IEEE Conference. Paper entitled "Offered Load Control in IEEE 802.11 Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks", co-authored by IE MPhil student Ng Ping Chung, presented at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor System, Oct., 2004. |
| Prof. LIEW Soung Chang | Best paper award in IEEE Conference. Paper entitled "Re-routing Instability in IEEE 802.11 Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks", co-authored by IE MPhil student Ng Ping Chung, presented at The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Network, Nov., 2004. |
| Prof. YEUNG Wai Ho, Raymond |
Best paper award. Paper entitled "Multisource Network Coding with Two Sinks", co-authored by IE MPhil student Ngai Chi Kin in the area of Communication Theory, presented at the 2nd International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2004) held in Chengdu, China. |
| Prof. CHANG Ming Yuen, Michael | Winner of the Best Teaching Award (2004-2005) |
| Prof. LEE Tong, Tony | Elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to high-speed scalable packet switching technology for broadband telecommunications networks. |
| Prof. YUE On Ching | Elected as an HKIE Fellow |
| Miss CHAU Man Ping, Grace (Undergraduate) Mr. HUI Ka Hung (Undergraduate) |
Awarded the Yu-Luan Shih Awards 2004/2005 |
| Miss CHAU Man Ping, Grace (Undergraduate) Mr. HUI Ka Hung (Undergraduate Student) |
Awarded the Academic Creativity Awards 2004/2005 |
| Mr. NG Ping Chung (MPhil) | Best paper award in IEEE Conference. Paper entitled "Offered Load Control in IEEE 802.11 Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks", co-authored by Professor Soung-Chang Liew, presented at the 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor System, Oct., 2004. |
| Mr. NG Ping Chung (MPhil) | Best paper award in IEEE Conference. Paper entitled "Re-routing Instability in IEEE 802.11 Multi-hop Ad-hoc Networks", co-authored by Professor Soung-Chang Liew, presented at The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Network, Nov., 2004. |
| Mr. TSE Hok Man (MPhil) | 2nd Place Winner of Image Cup 2005 Competition in software design (organized by the Microsoft HK Ltd.), team award (together with 2 EE M.Phil. & 1 EE UG students). |
| Mr. IP Yin Ki Wilson (Undergraduate) Mr. CHAN Chun Kelvin (Undergraduate) |
2nd Runner-up of the Undergraduate Individual Projects, CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Cup of Student Innovation 2005 |
| Miss CHAU Man Ping, Grace (Undergraduate) | Awarded the Epson Foundation Scholarship 2004/05 |
2003-2004
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. CHANG Ming Yuen, Michael | Winner of the Best Teaching Award (2003-2004) |
| Prof. WEI Keh Wei, Victor | ISI Highly Cited: Top 250 Most Cited Computer Scientists in last 20 years, by SCI-JCR (Science Citation Index V Journal Citation Report) |
| Prof. YUE On Ching | A US patent by Professor On-Ching Yue and his former colleagues at Bell Labs for improving the VoIP service quality was named one of 2003's top five patented new technologies by the prominent magazine MIT Technology Review |
| Miss DAI Shuyao (Undergraduate) Mr. WANG Xiaoyu (Undergraduate) Miss DENG Jiean (Undergraduate) Mr. LONG Fei (Undergraduate) Miss CHEN Juanzi (Undergraduate) Mr. CAI Dongfang (Undergraduate) |
2004 IE Award to non-local students |
| Mr. NG Tung (Undergraduate) | Silver Medal, The 2004 ACM Asia Programming Contest - Shanghai (team award, together with 2 students of CSE Department) |
| Mr. CHAN Chi Pan (Undergraduate) Mr. WONG Chi Hang (Undergraduate) Mr. YU Wing Fung (Undergraduate) |
Bronze Medal, The 2004 ACM Asia Programming Contest - Shanghai |
| Mr. CHEUNG Man Hong (MPhil) | 2004 Outstanding Thesis Award under the supervision of Professor L.K. Chen |
| Mr. HUANG Renbin (Undergraduate) | 「第三屆海峽兩岸知識大賽」- 全國知識賽, 榮獲二等獎 -- 由中央電視台及台灣中天電視台合辦 |
| Mr. PANG Yin Hay (Undergraduate) | 「第九屆全國大學生網球錦標賽」甲組男單冠軍、男雙亞軍及體育道德風尚獎 – 由四川省成都市西南石油大學舉辦. |
| Mr. NGAI Chi Kin (MPhil) | Best paper award - paper entitled "Multisource Network Coding with Two Sinks", co-authored by Prof. Raymond W.H. Yeung in the area of Communication Theory, presented at the 2nd International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2004) held in Chengdu, China. |
| Mr. HO Wai Kit (Undergraduate) Mr. WONG Chi Yeung (Undergraduate) (CU Cube Team Name) |
Bronze Award, 4th HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards. |
| Mr. CHAN Ho Tat (Undergraduate) Mr. IP Shun Yin (Undergraduate) (Toguro Team) |
Certificate of Merit, 4th HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards. |
| Mr. WANG Xiaogang (MPhil) | Honorary mentioning of the 2003 Outstanding M.Phil. Thesis Award under the supervision of Prof. Sean X.O. Tang. |
| Mr. CHAN Chi Pan (Undergraduate) Mr. CHENG Yuk Pong (Undergraduate) Mr. NG Cho Yiu (Undergraduate) Mr. NG Tung (Undergraduate) Mr. WONG Chi Hang (Undergraduate) Mr. YU Wing Fung (Undergraduate) |
「逸仙杯」 2003大學生程序設計競賽銅獎 – 由中山大學舉辦. |
| Dr. YANG Yang (PhD) |
2003 Young Scientist Award in Physical/Mathematical Science issued by Hong Kong Institution of Science. |
2002-2003
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. CHANG Ming Yuen, Michael | Winner of the Best Teaching Award (2002-2003) |
| Prof. YEUNG Wai-Ho, Raymond | Elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to network coding theory. |
| Miss CHAU Man Ping, Grace (Undergraduate) |
2003 Lucent Global Science Scholar from Hong Kong |
| Mr. AU Yeung Ching Man (Undergraduate) | Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Award (2003) by Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Institute of International Education. |
| Miss TANG Pui Yi, Caren (Undergraduate) | Selected as the HKIE Scholar 2001/2002. |
| Dr. YANG Yang (PhD) | Winner of the 2002 Outstanding PhD Thesis Award under the supervision of Prof. YUM Tak-Shing, Peter. |
| Mr. CHAN Wah Kit (MPhil) | Honorary mentioning of the 2002 Outstanding M.Phil. Thesis Award under the supervision of Prof. K.W. Wei. |
| Miss LEUNG Ching-Man (Undergraduate) | 2002 Lucent Global Science Scholar from Hong Kong. |
| Mr. LAM Ping-Fai (Undergraduate) |
Winner of the Scholastic Programme Contest, ACM Hong Kong Chapter. |
| Mr. TONG Kwong-Bun (MPhil) | Winner of the ACM Hong Kong Chapter Computer Chinese Checkers Competition 2002. |
| Mr. NG Cho-Yiu (Undergraduate) Mr. LAM Ping-Fai (Undergraduate) Mr. CHAN Chi-Pan (Undergraduate) (the official team members) |
1st and 3rd places - Champion of the ACM Hong Kong Chapter Scholastic Programming Contest. |
| Mr. HO Tsz Hang (Undergraduate) Mr. LEE Kai-Yip (Undergraduate) Mr. NG Tin-Yu (Undergraduate) (the observer team) |
The 3rd best team - Champion of the ACM Hong Kong Chapter Scholastic Programming Contest |
| Mr. HO Ying-Fai (Undergraduate) | IT Fellow for 2002-2003, T.Y. Wong Innovation & Entrepreneurial Fellowship |
| Mr. LAU Kwok-Kei (Undergraduate) | Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Award by Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Institute of International Education |
| Mr. YANG Yang (PhD) | 2nd Prize in IEEE (Region 10) Postgraduate Student Paper Contest 2002 |
| Mr. LAU Kwok-Kei (Undergraduate) | HKIE Scholar 2000/2001 |
| Mr. WONG Chun-Kuen (MPhil) | Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship Award 2001/2002 |
2001-2002
| Award recipient(s) | Details |
|---|---|
| Prof. WONG Po Choi | Awarded the Medal of Honor by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR for his valuable contributions to the promotion of IT in Education |
| Prof. WONG Wing Shing | Elected as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to estimation theory of nonlinear systems and application of system theory to communication and information processing problems. Also bestowed as Adjunct Professor, The Southeast University, Nanjing, China |
| Prof. YUM Tak Shing, Peter | Bestowed as Adjunct Professor, The Southeast University, Nanjing, China |
| Mr. YANG Yang (PhD) | 2nd Prize in IEEE (Region 10) Postgraduate Student Paper Contest 2002 |
| Mr. YANG Yang (PhD) | Honorable Mentions on the 2nd ACM Hong Kong Postgraduate Research Day |
| Mr. YANG Yang (PhD) | First Prize in IEEE HK Section Postgraduate Student Paper Contest 2001 |
| Mr. LAU Kwok Kei (Undergraduate) | HKIE Scholar 2000/2001 |
| Mr. WONG Chun Kuen (MPhil) | Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship Award 2001/2002 |
| Mr. CHEUNG Hoi Pang (Undergraduate) | The Young Inventors Awards 2001 as a finalist |
| Mr. SUNG On Loy & his team (Undergraduate) | Champion of Young Entrepreneurs Development Council E-Challenge 2001 |
| Mr. WEN Yong Gang (MPhil) |
Honorary mentioning of the 2001 Outstanding M.Phil. Thesis Award under the supervision of Prof. L.K Chen |
| Mr. TONG Kwong Bun, Bruce (Undergraduate) | Winner of the ACM Hong Kong Chapter Computer Chinese Checkers Competition 2001 |
| Mr. CHEUNG Man Hong, Clement (Undergraduate) | Outstanding academic and leadership achievements of Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Program 2001 |
| Mr. TONG Kwong Bun, Bruce (Undergraduate) | Merit Prize in a Basic Law Web Page Design Competition organized by the Home Affairs Bureau, HKSAR |
