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            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.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Chen BAI Won William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2021
            
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            Chen BAI and co-authors (Qi Sun, Jianwang Zhai, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Martin Wong) won William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award (Front-End Award) for their paper “BOOM-Explorer: RISC-V BOOM Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration Framework”.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            CSE Students Received 3 Awards in 2 Competitions at ICCAD
            
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            Shiju LIN, Jinwei LIU and Tianji LIU, supervised by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. YOUNG, won the first place in 2021 CAD Contest at ICCAD.  Shiju LIN and  Jinwei LIU also won the second place in 2021 CADathlon at ICCAD.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Alumnus Wong Kwan Hang Won Silver in Tokyo Paralympics
            
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            An alumnus of CSE (class 2017), Kwan Hang together with his teammates won a silver medal for Hong Kong in the mixed pair boccia BC4 event at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Prof. Patrick Lee Has Been Selected For the Young Researcher Award 2020
            
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            Young Researcher Award is to recognize research accomplishments of young faculty members.
        
     
    
 
                
                    
    
    
        
            Mr. Ziliang Lai Won the Champion of ACM SIGMOD Student Research Competition 2021
            
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            Ziliang won the champion with his work “When blockchain meets deterministic concurrency control”.
        
     
    
 
                
                
            
         
        
 	
    
    
    
Achievements
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.
Chen BAI Won William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2021
Chen BAI and co-authors (Qi Sun, Jianwang Zhai, Yuzhe Ma, Bei Yu, Martin Wong) won William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award (Front-End Award) for their paper “BOOM-Explorer: RISC-V BOOM Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration Framework”.
CSE Students Received 3 Awards in 2 Competitions at ICCAD
Shiju LIN, Jinwei LIU and Tianji LIU, supervised by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. YOUNG, won the first place in 2021 CAD Contest at ICCAD. Shiju LIN and Jinwei LIU also won the second place in 2021 CADathlon at ICCAD.
Alumnus Wong Kwan Hang Won Silver in Tokyo Paralympics
An alumnus of CSE (class 2017), Kwan Hang together with his teammates won a silver medal for Hong Kong in the mixed pair boccia BC4 event at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
Prof. Patrick Lee Has Been Selected For the Young Researcher Award 2020
Young Researcher Award is to recognize research accomplishments of young faculty members.
Mr. Ziliang Lai Won the Champion of ACM SIGMOD Student Research Competition 2021
Ziliang won the champion with his work “When blockchain meets deterministic concurrency control”.