In recognition of his significant contribution to the advanced development of computer vision and machine learning technology, focusing specifically on image/video understanding.
            
   
    
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            Prof. Fung-yu Evangeline Young Elected IEEE Fellows for 2023
            
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            For contributions to electronic design automation in VLSI physical design.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Yu LI’s Group Won First Place in the CASP15-RNA Structure Prediction
            
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            AICHEMY-RNA2 won first place regarding overall performance, and AICHEMY-RNA won first place in fully automatic modeling.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Jimmy Lee Conferred Distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society 2022
            
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            To recognise members who have made an outstanding contribution to HKCS and the IT community, and significant achievements and standing in her/his area of work.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Young’s Team Won the 2nd Place in 2022 CAD Contest at ICCAD
            
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            The CAD Contest at ICCAD is a challenging research and development competition, focusing on advanced, real-world problems in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA).
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof Qi Dou Received NSFC Young Scientists Fund 2022
            
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            The NSFC Young Scientists Fund supports young scholars as they carry out basic research in areas of their choice, enhancing their ability to conduct innovative projects independently and fostering the promotion of young scientists.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Yuehao Wang Won the MICCAI Society Young Scientist Award at MICCAI 2022
            
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            The MICCAI is a worldwide largest and most influential academic conference in the field of medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Hong Xu received the Best Paper Award from ACM SIGCOMM 2022
            
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            Prof. Hong Xu received the award for the paper “Software-defined Network Assimilation: Bridging the Last Mile Towards Centralized Network Configuration Management with NAssim”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu Elected Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences Fellows 2021
            
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            Prof. Michael Lyu is a world-renowned scholar in software reliability engineering. His research areas include software reliability, distributed systems, services computing, machine learning, and AI.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Allen Zhong Won the Best Student Paper Award at the 28th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
            
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            Mr. Zhong won the award with paper “Exploiting Functional Constraints in Automatic Dominance Breaking for Constraint Optimization”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Jiaya Jia Has Received the InnoStars Award 2021
            
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            “Innovation is not just a flash of inspiration, but a process of continuous creation and evolution.”
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Irwin King Awarded the 2021 INNS Dennis Gabor Award
            
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            Dennis Gabor Award, a Lifetime Contribution Award, recognizes outstanding contributions to engineering applications of neural networks.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Wang and His Team Won the First Place in LIC 2022 Challenge
            
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            LaVi team won the Semantic Video Understanding track in LIC 2022.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Lyu and His Team Won the First IEEE Open Software Services Award
            
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            The team won the award with “LogPAI: An Open-Source Project for Automated Log Analysis”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Mr. Wei LI Has Received the Faculty’s Outstanding Thesis Award 2021
            
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            Mr. LI won the award with his thesis “Irregular Deep Data Embedding and Learning”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Engineering Robotics Teams Captures Championship in Robocon Hong Kong Contest
            
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            CUHK Golden Striker takes the crown.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Wenbo Li Was Selected in the CVPR 2022 Best Paper Finalists
            
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            The paper is titled “MAT: Mask-Aware Transformer for Large Hole Image Inpainting”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Lo and His Team Won the Best Demonstration Runner Up Award at ACM SIGMOD 2022
            
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            The team won the award with “Everest: A Top-K Deep Video Analytics System”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Mr. Ziliang Lai Won the First Prize of ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finals 2022
            
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            Ziliang won the prize with his work “Deterministic Concurrency Control For Private Blockchains”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Yufei Tao Has Received the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2021
            
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            The award serves not only as a recognition of the contributions of the awardees in the area of teaching, but also reflects the University’s commitment to providing quality education.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Yu LI, the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
            
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            List highlights 300 young entrepreneurs and rising stars who are redefining the future of business and society in Asia.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            CUHK Computer Science Ranks 26th Worldwide and 1st in Hong Kong in the 2022 QS World University Ranking
            
         
        
            This is a great testimony to our faculty members’ strength in research and education.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Siting LIU Won DATE Best Paper Award at DATE 2022
            
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            Ms. Liu won the award with paper “FastGR: Global Routing on CPU-GPU with Heterogeneous Task Graph Sched-uler”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Alumnus Dr. Hao Ma won the Test of Time Award at WSDM 2022
            
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            Dr. Hao Ma won the Test of Time Award, which recognizes the significant impact his work made a decade ago in social computing that still influences work today!
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            CUHK Computer Science ranks no. 10 worldwide and no. 1 in Hong Kong for two consecutive years in the U.S. News and World Report 2022
            
         
        
            This reaffirms CUHK’s position as one of the global leaders in computer science research and education. It is essential as computer science is the main driving force behind today’s 4th industrial revolution and digital economy. This recognition further motivates us to keep striving for excellence.
        
     
    
 
                
                
            
         
        
 	
    
    
    
Achievements
Prof. Fung-yu Evangeline Young Elected IEEE Fellows for 2023
For contributions to electronic design automation in VLSI physical design.
Prof. Yu LI’s Group Won First Place in the CASP15-RNA Structure Prediction
AICHEMY-RNA2 won first place regarding overall performance, and AICHEMY-RNA won first place in fully automatic modeling.
Prof. Jimmy Lee Conferred Distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society 2022
To recognise members who have made an outstanding contribution to HKCS and the IT community, and significant achievements and standing in her/his area of work.
Prof. Young’s Team Won the 2nd Place in 2022 CAD Contest at ICCAD
The CAD Contest at ICCAD is a challenging research and development competition, focusing on advanced, real-world problems in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA).
Prof Qi Dou Received NSFC Young Scientists Fund 2022
The NSFC Young Scientists Fund supports young scholars as they carry out basic research in areas of their choice, enhancing their ability to conduct innovative projects independently and fostering the promotion of young scientists.
Yuehao Wang Won the MICCAI Society Young Scientist Award at MICCAI 2022
The MICCAI is a worldwide largest and most influential academic conference in the field of medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention.
Prof. Hong Xu received the Best Paper Award from ACM SIGCOMM 2022
Prof. Hong Xu received the award for the paper “Software-defined Network Assimilation: Bridging the Last Mile Towards Centralized Network Configuration Management with NAssim”.
Prof. Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu Elected Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences Fellows 2021
Prof. Michael Lyu is a world-renowned scholar in software reliability engineering. His research areas include software reliability, distributed systems, services computing, machine learning, and AI.
Allen Zhong Won the Best Student Paper Award at the 28th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
Mr. Zhong won the award with paper “Exploiting Functional Constraints in Automatic Dominance Breaking for Constraint Optimization”.
Prof. Jiaya Jia Has Received the InnoStars Award 2021
“Innovation is not just a flash of inspiration, but a process of continuous creation and evolution.”
Prof. Irwin King Awarded the 2021 INNS Dennis Gabor Award
Dennis Gabor Award, a Lifetime Contribution Award, recognizes outstanding contributions to engineering applications of neural networks.
Prof. Wang and His Team Won the First Place in LIC 2022 Challenge
LaVi team won the Semantic Video Understanding track in LIC 2022.
Prof. Lyu and His Team Won the First IEEE Open Software Services Award
The team won the award with “LogPAI: An Open-Source Project for Automated Log Analysis”.
Mr. Wei LI Has Received the Faculty’s Outstanding Thesis Award 2021
Mr. LI won the award with his thesis “Irregular Deep Data Embedding and Learning”.
Engineering Robotics Teams Captures Championship in Robocon Hong Kong Contest
CUHK Golden Striker takes the crown.
Wenbo Li Was Selected in the CVPR 2022 Best Paper Finalists
The paper is titled “MAT: Mask-Aware Transformer for Large Hole Image Inpainting”.
Prof. Lo and His Team Won the Best Demonstration Runner Up Award at ACM SIGMOD 2022
The team won the award with “Everest: A Top-K Deep Video Analytics System”.
Mr. Ziliang Lai Won the First Prize of ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finals 2022
Ziliang won the prize with his work “Deterministic Concurrency Control For Private Blockchains”.
Prof. Yufei Tao Has Received the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2021
The award serves not only as a recognition of the contributions of the awardees in the area of teaching, but also reflects the University’s commitment to providing quality education.
Prof. Yu LI, the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
List highlights 300 young entrepreneurs and rising stars who are redefining the future of business and society in Asia.
CUHK Computer Science Ranks 26th Worldwide and 1st in Hong Kong in the 2022 QS World University Ranking
This is a great testimony to our faculty members’ strength in research and education.
Siting LIU Won DATE Best Paper Award at DATE 2022
Ms. Liu won the award with paper “FastGR: Global Routing on CPU-GPU with Heterogeneous Task Graph Sched-uler”.
Alumnus Dr. Hao Ma won the Test of Time Award at WSDM 2022
Dr. Hao Ma won the Test of Time Award, which recognizes the significant impact his work made a decade ago in social computing that still influences work today!
CUHK Computer Science ranks no. 10 worldwide and no. 1 in Hong Kong for two consecutive years in the U.S. News and World Report 2022
This reaffirms CUHK’s position as one of the global leaders in computer science research and education. It is essential as computer science is the main driving force behind today’s 4th industrial revolution and digital economy. This recognition further motivates us to keep striving for excellence.