A recent research project, led by Prof. Sze Yiu Chau from the Department of Information Engineering, found that many VPN setups around the globe are insecure. The discovered vulnerabilities allow a network attacker, such as a rogue hotel or café Wi-Fi operator, to easily and stealthily obtain the passwords of users when they attempt to connect to their organizational VPNs. Additionally, some vulnerabilities even enable hackers to take over control of the user's device, which can cause additional damages.

A research team led by Professor Lu Yi-chun in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK has taken a critical step forward in creating a high-performance, eco-friendly electrolyte for aqueous zinc batteries. The team applied a strategy from pharmaceutical science to increase drug solubility, solving the problems of aqueous zinc batteries’ short life span by enabling highly concentrated zinc acetate electrolytes, a halogen-free zinc salt. The breakthrough was recently published in the world-leading scientific journal Nature Sustainability, a sister journal of Nature.

Professor Liu Yun-hui, the Director of CUHK T Stone Robotics Institute, is one of these successful professor-turned-entrepreneurs, who helped close the gap between ideas and implementation. In this interview, he shared his incredible professor-entrepreneur journey of robotic research.

Professor Liao Wei-hsin, Chairman of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)’s Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, recently won the 2023 Leonardo Da Vinci Award from the Design Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Professor Liao is the first scholar from Hong Kong to win the ASME Leonardo Da Vinci Award in its 45-year history.

Professor Yu Bei, along with CUHK CSE alumni Dr. Yang Haoyu, Mr. Li Shuhe, Miss. Chen Wen, received the Best Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing 2022 for the paper “DeePattern: Layout Pattern Generation with Transforming Convolutional Auto-Encoder“. This work is in collaboration with Cadence Inc.

Professor So Man-Cho Anthony, together with Dr. Chen Shixiang (former SEEM PhD student), Professor Ma Shiqian (former SEEM academic staff), and Professor Zhang Tong received the SIAM Review SIGEST Award for their paper.

Professor Li Cheuk Ting from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Professor Venkat Anantharam from UC Berkeley co-authored a paper titled "A Unified Framework for One-Shot Achievability via the Poisson Matching Lemma," which has been awarded the prestigious IT Society Best Paper Award in 2023.

Professor Cheng Hong, Vice-Chairman (Graduate) of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and her research team have won the prestigious Best Paper Award (Research Track) from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD) International Conference 2023.

Dr. He Kaiming, an alumnus of the IE PhD program in 2011, has been awarded the 2023 Future Science Prize in mathematics and computer science for his groundbreaking contributions to artificial intelligence through his work on deep residual learning.

The robotics team from CUHK’s Faculty of Engineering claimed second place, along with the Best Design Award, at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon), which took place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The team’s outstanding performance is a testament to CUHK’s top-level robotics and innovation education.