Bulletin No. 1, 2016

50 Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2016 HONOurS ANd rEcOgNITIONS Prof. Lan Hui-yao’s Research on Chronic Kidney Disease Awarded by CMA The research project entitled ‘Research into the Mechanism and Control of Clinical Progression of Chronic Kidney Diseases’ by Prof. Lan Hui-yao, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Biomedical Sciences and assistant dean (research), Faculty of Medicine, has won the First Prize in the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award 2015, presented by the Chinese Medical Association (CMA). The research, which sheds light on invention of novel anti-fibrotic therapy, was conducted in collaboration with experts from mainland institutes and universities. Prof. Lyu Rung-tsong Michael Conferred ACM Fellowship 2015 Prof. Lyu Rung-tsong Michael, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his remarkable contributions to the theory and practice of software reliability engineering. Prof. Huang Jianwei Elected IEEE Fellow 2016 Prof. Huang Jianwei from the Department of Information Engineering has been elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for his contributions to resource allocation in wireless systems. Prof. Raymond Yeung Receives 2016 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award Prof. Yeung Wai-ho Raymond, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and co-director, Institute of Network Coding, and his collaborators were recently granted the 2016 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for their pioneering contributions to the field of network coding—the first time in two decades that a research team in the Asia-Pacific received this honour. Prof. Ng Mee-kam Wins AESOP Best Published Paper Award 2015 Prof. Ng Mee-kam, vice-chairperson of the Department of Geography and Resource Management, won the AESOP Best Published Paper Award 2015 of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) for her paper ‘Intellectuals and the Production of Space in the Urban Renewal Process in Hong Kong and Taipei’. The paper analyzed the possible roles and limitations of different intellectuals in urban renewal by comparing cases in Hong Kong and Taipei.