Events

Departmental Orientation

This is the first year the Department launches its Scheme programme and we are pleased to invite our new Department Head, Professor C.Y. Chung to meet our freshmen in this Orientation held on 26 August 2022.  There are totally 86 freshmen and 28 senior year students attended the orientation which was conducted in hybrid mode.  Apart from Dean and Head’s welcome addresses, we have also invited Dr Kevin Chan, Scheme Leader, and other senior staff to greet our freshmen and introduce the programme details and various teaching and learning opportunities to come.    We hope that our students could enjoy their study in the Department.  Once again, welcome them joining our EE Family.

Seminar on "Bruce Lee Inspired Fluid Antenna Systems for 6G: Fluid Antenna Multiple Access"

Joint Speaker Series on Privacy and Security in AI and Big Data by Dr. Yang Cao, Kyoto University, Japan, on "Three Flavors of Differentially Private Federated Learning with Untrusted Server”

PolyU Summer Programme

The Department organized the EIE PolyU Summer Programme for more than 30 secondary school students on 8 August 2022. They were welcomed by Dr Lawrence Cheung with an introduction of the EIE undergraduate programmes. Our BEng in EIE graduate and PhD student, Mr Cheung Tsun Hin, also shared his study life during the Q&A and student sharing sessions. Followed by a talk on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) given by Dr Lawrence Cheung and Dr Ivan Ho, a Robotic Workshop was conducted for the participants. The event provided the students a valuable opportunity to enhance their technical skill by building a robotic car, learn more about the AI and IoT technologies, and experience the university life during their summer break.The Department organized the EIE PolyU Summer Programme for more than 30 secondary school students on 8 August 2022. They were welcomed by Dr Lawrence Cheung with an introduction of the EIE undergraduate programmes. Our BEng in EIE graduate and PhD student, Mr Cheung Tsun Hin, also shared his study life during the Q&A and student sharing sessions. Followed by a talk on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) given by Dr Lawrence Cheung and Dr Ivan Ho, a Robotic Workshop was conducted for the participants. The event provided the students a valuable opportunity to enhance their technical skill by building a robotic car, learn more about the AI and IoT technologies, and experience the university life during their summer break.

Joint Speaker Series on Privacy and Security in AI and Big Data by Dr. Neil Gong from Duke University, USA on "Intellectual Property Protection in Machine Learning: Data, Hyperparameters, and Models”

Seminar on "Differential Privacy: Potential and Limitations"

AAEIE Turkish Mosiac Lamp Workshop

The Alumni Association of Electronic and Information Engineering (AAEIE) organized a Turkish Mosiac Lamp Workshop for their members on 18 June 2022. The participants were able to create a unique mosaic lamp for themselves in a relaxing environment. They also got a taste of Turkey’s art and culture during this artistic workshop.

PolyU Faculty Seminar Series

The University launched the PolyU Faculty Seminar Series in May to bring together representatives from different faculties for giving an overview of the PolyU study experience and presenting the special features of individual faculties and departments. The session for the Faculty of Engineering was held on 16 May 2022 for more than 160 secondary school students, teachers and parents. Prof. Kenneth Lam, our Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, welcomed the participants by introducing the Faculty and the importance of engineers in supporting the development of different industries. Prof. Man-Wai Mak, Interim Head of the Department, also shared the key components of the three EIE undergraduate programmes, and helped the audience to have a deeper understanding of the needs of the society and the high demand for IT professionals during the seminar.

Seminar by Prof Rui Zhang

Visit by Departmental Academic Advisor

The Departmental Academic Advisor (DAA), Prof. Rui Zhang, paid a virtual visit to EIE from 11 to 13 April 2022. Prof. Zhang is a Professor and Provost’s Chair from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National University of Singapore. Prof. Zhang met with our academic staff, student representatives, Programme Leaders, Research Focus Areas’ Leaders, Departmental Research Committee, as well as the Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee to review our programmes and provided constructive advice for the development of the Department. During his visit, Prof. Zhang also delivered a seminar on “Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) Empowered 6G: Fundamentals, Applications and Challenges” to introduce a new promising wireless technology, named Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS), which has been identified by the industry as a potential key technology to achieve the ambitious goals of 6G. In this talk, Prof. Zhang presented the fundamentals of IRS including its hardware architecture and communication model, its main applications in wireless networks, and its cost and performance advantages as compared to the existing wireless technologies. He focused the main design challenges in efficiently integrating IRSs into the future wireless networks such as 6G, including passive reflection optimization, IRS channel acquisition and IRS deployment, and overviewed their state-of-the-art solutions. Prof. Zhang then discussed open problems and pointed out directions worthy of further investigation in future work in the final part of the seminar.