Among all the Computer Science (or Computer Science & Engineering) Departments in Hong Kong institutions, we achieved the “best performance” in the Computer Science /IT Panel. This result reflects not only our excellent performance, but also our commitment to push forward the frontier of computer science and engineering.

Mr. Jiang Wenjie received the University’s Award for the Best Research Output by Research Post-graduate Students 2005. This Award is nominated annually by each Faculty of the University to recognize research postgraduate students with commendable research achievements.

The project “Virtual Acupuncture” represented Hong Kong in the Asia Pacific Information and Communication Technology Awards (APICTA) and won the “Winner Award” in the category of Research and Development.

The research paper entitled “A Statistical Evaluation Model for Minutiae-based Automatic Fingerprint Verification Systems” by Mr. Chen Jiansheng won the Second Prize of Motorola Best Student Paper in IAPR International Conference on Biometrics 2006, which is one of the most significant conferences in biometric research.

The paper, entitled “Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Commercial FPGAs”, presents a methodology to reduce the power consumption of commercial field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices.

Mr. Mak Chi Chung and Mr. Chan Chi Chun won the champion in the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter Final Year Project Competition. It aims to provide recognition of research efforts related in computational intelligence.

Mr. Xie Yongming won the First Award in the 9th Challenge Cup. The bi-annual Challenge Cup is considered the premier national competition of extra-curricular technological projects of university students. It pools the best young innovative brains from all corners of China.

Mr. Xie Yongming won the Gold Award in the 7th IT Excellence Awards (Post-Secondary) 2005.

The project “Salinity in the Macau Raw Water Controlling System” by Mr. Choi Chiu Wo Jeff, received a Certificated of Merit in the 7th IT Excellence Awards (Post-Secondary). The event was organized annually by the Hong Kong Computer Society.

Mr. Joe Wenjie Jiang won the Best Student Paper in the IFIP WG 7.3 International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation with paper titled “On the Interaction of Overlay Routing”.

Students of Prof. Lyu Rung Tsong Michael of the Department received awards in three renowned competitions for their project “mVOTE Mobile Video Object Tracking Engine”.

Prof. Leung Ho Fung and Ms. Lam Ka Man won the Best Paper Award for their work entitled “Risk Strategies and Risk Strategy Equilibrium in Agent Interactions Modeled as Normal Repeated 2×2 Risk Games”. This paper introduces some new concepts, which assist the analysis of multi-agent applications and the design of intelligent agents.

Students of Prof. Lyu Rung Tsong Michael of the Department received awards in three renowned competitions for their project “mVOTE Mobile Video Object Tracking Engine”.

Students of Prof. Lyu Rung Tsong Michael of the Department received awards in three renowned competitions for their project “mVOTE Mobile Video Object Tracking Engine”.

The Paper “Controlling Salinity in the Macau Raw Water System Using a Constraint Programming” by Mr. Choi Chiu Wo received the First award in the IEE Hong Kong Younger Members Exhibition / Conference 2005 (YMEC 2005) under the postgraduate category.

Professors Wong Tien-Tsin and Heng Pheng-Ann have received the Multimedia Prize Paper Award given by the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. The Multimedia Prize Paper Award is an annual award for an original paper in the field of multimedia published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia in the previous three calendar years.

Prof. Yao is the only Chinese being awarded the prestigious Turing Award which is regarded as the Nobel Prize of Computer Science.