Sep 2024     Issue 24
Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future
Our core values of transparency, fairness, and mutual respect will guide the way we tackle many of the challenges in the future.
Tackling Cardiovascular Diseases with Innovative Wearable Technology

The global elderly population is growing at an unprecedented rate, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. According to World Population Prospects, by 2050, one in six people in the world will be over the age of 65 (16%), up from one in 11 in 2019 (9%). This demographic shift presents significant healthcare challenges, most notably the rising prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs).
Accessible Surgical Robotic System

Robotic surgery, particularly in the realm of soft-tissue laparoscopic interventions, has shown considerable progress over the years. Yet, its widespread adoption is significantly hampered by issues of accessibility. In regions like Hong Kong and Mainland China, the growing demand for surgical services due to an aging population exacerbates the challenge, compounded by a shortfall in adequately trained surgeons. While robotic surgical technologies promise improved clinical outcomes and a reduced learning curve for trainees, their high costs restrict broader clinical use.

Silicon Photonics – An Introduction

Silicon is one of the most abundant elements in the earth’s crust and has benefitted from the enormous investments over the past 70 years in research and development that has created an unrivalled knowledge base the processing of silicon for the manufacture of microelectronic chips......Silicon photonics is based on the use of the same fabrication technology as has been perfected in the manufacture of previous generations of microelectronic integrated circuits, but instead of using copper wires and electrical signals for carrying data, silicon photonic integrated circuits use optical “wires” which guide light waves in tiny channels of silicon known as silicon optical waveguides.
Prof. Yu Bei receives prestigious DAC Under-40 Innovator Award for contributions in machine learning driven EDA

Professor Yu Bei from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been honored with the 2024 Under-40 Innovator Award by the Design Automation Conference (DAC). This accolade is a testament to Professor Yu’s groundbreaking work in the realm of electronic design automation (EDA) and machine learning.
Prof. Lu Yi-Chun wins the Tajima Prize 2024

Professor Lu Yi-Chun was selected as the winner of the Tajima Prize 2024, for her innovative work in the field of advanced rechargeable batteries including redox-flow, metal-air, and metal-sulfur batteries! The Tajima Prize is a society award given by the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). The annual prize, which was established in the mid-1980s with a donation from Japanese professor and scientist Sakae Tajima, is awarded annually to an outstanding electrochemist under the age of 40.
Prof. Zhou Renjie and his team win Prestigious Best Paper Award in ICCP 2024

Professor Zhou Renjie and his team have been awarded the IEEE international conference on computational photography (ICCP) Best Paper Award for 2024 for the paper titled “High-performance real-world optical computing trained by in situ gradient-based model-free optimization”. 
PhD student under supervision of Prof. Tsang Hon Ki wins the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference

Mr. HU Gaolei, a year-4 PhD student under supervision of Professor Tsang Hon Ki won one of the three Best Student Paper Awards at the IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference held in Tokyo on 15-18 April 2024 for his paper "Multimode-Fiber Imaging Using a Wavelength-Scanned Integrated Optical Phased Array”. 
PhD student Lau Chin Wa wins prestigious IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award 2024

Mr. Lau Chin Wa, PhD student of the Department of Information Engineering under the supervision of Professor Chandra Nair, has been awarded the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award for 2024 for the paper titled “An Entropic Inequality in Finite Abelian Groups Analogous to the Unified Brascamp-Lieb and Entropy Power Inequality”.
PhD student selected as the co-recipient of the Best Student Paper Award of the 51st EATCS ICALP

Mr. Yung King On, PhD student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, under the supervision of Professor Farzan Farnia, was selected as the co-recipient of the Best Student Paper Award of the 51st EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP), for his paper titled “Limits of Sequential Local Algorithms on the Random k-XORSAT Problems”.
PhD student Mr. Kwan Wai Chung Cyrus under the supervision of Prof. Wong Kam Fai, receives the outstanding paper award at ACL2024

Mr. Kwan Wai Chung Cyrus, PhD student of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management under the supervision of Professor Wong Kam Fai, received the outstanding paper award at Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2024.
IE PhD graduate wins the 2024 ACM SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award

Dr. Pan Xiang, PhD graduate of the Department of Information Engineering (2022) has won the prestigious 2024 ACM SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis titled: “Deep Neural Networks for Optimal Power Flow in Electric Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Experiments”.
CUHK Robotics Team representing Hong Kong crowned Champion of ABU Robocon for the third time

The robotics team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) representing Hong Kong won the championship at the recent Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2024 (ABU Robocon 2024). The CUHK team was crowned champion after beating 12 teams from 11 countries and regions, including mainland China, Japan, India, Malaysia and Vietnam. It was the third time the CUHK team has clinched the championship title, following its successes in 2019 and 2022.
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