We are proud to announce that five COMP academic staff members received the Faculty of Engineering (FENG) Research Grant Achievement Award for 2021. The award goes to Prof. AU Man Ho Allen, Prof. GUO Song, Prof. WANG Dan, Dr LUO Xiapu Daniel and Dr YANG Lei Ray. Their exceptional accomplishment in securing external competitive research grants from 2017 to 2021 returned in triumph.
The awarded members are dedicated to diverse research fields, but have also spared no effort to lead and contribute to multidisciplinary research projects. Prof. AU’s research interests include information security, applied cryptography, blockchain technology, and their applications; Prof. GUO focuses on big data, edge AI, mobile computing, and distributed systems; Prof. WANG conducts research on network architecture and QoS, smart building (a big data study) and Industry 4.0; Dr LUO’s research areas include mobile/IoT/system security and privacy, blockchain/smart contract, software engineering, network security and privacy, and internet measurement; Dr YANG studies physical neural networks, battery-free IoT, augmented metaverse, mobile computing, wireless communication and sensing, security and privacy.
The Faculty Research Committee has set up FENG Research Grant Achievement Award since 2003 to recognise the outstanding performance of FENG academic staff members in securing external competitive research grants. To be qualified, a staff member must successfully secure three external competitive research grants in 36 months or four external competitive research grants in 60 months, as Principal Investigator/ co-Principal Investigator.