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Congratulations to the Winners for the President’s Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Knowledge Transfer 2021

The President’s Executive Committee has endorsed the setting up of the President’s Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Knowledge Transfer (KT) to recognise and reward staff members’ KT endeavours which are underpinned by research and innovation and have created significant impact on industry and society.  Any successful cases should provide evidence of how PolyU’s research and innovation has created significant impact to industry and/or society during the period of the past 7 years (From January 2014 to 2021), through collaborative/contract research, licensing of a patent, entrepreneurship, consultancy, or other appropriate means. The “President’s Awards for Outstanding Achievement in KT: Industry” recognises KT impact cases which can demonstrate contributions in advancing the technological or industry standards, addressing the needs of the industry, or enhancing its competitiveness through application of PolyU’s research and innovations in the form of products, methodologies, systems and/or solutions.  Professor HY TAM (Team Leader) leads his research team on an impact story: “World’s First Predictive Maintenance Railway Monitoring System” is one of the 5 teams awarded in this category.  His team members include Ir Dr Lee Kang Kuen, Dr SY Liu, Dr Stephen Cho and Mr. David Au. Our greatest congratulations to them!  

Congratulations to the Winners for the Faculty Research Grants Achievement Awards 2020

Faculty of Engineering Research Grant Achievement Award has been set up by the Faculty Research Committee since 2003, with a view to recognize the outstanding performance of FENG academic staff members in securing external competitive research grants.  This year, both Professors Wei Jin and Aping Zhang, and Drs KH Lam and SX Niu are the winners of this award.

Information Seminar for Senior Year Admission to EIE Undergraduate Degree Programmes

An Information Seminar for the Senior Year Admission to EIE Undergraduate Degree Programmes has been on 3 January 2022, Mon, at 3 pm in a hybrid mode. The information session is as follows: Date: 3 January 2022 (Monday) Time: 3:00 p.m. Duration: 1 hour to 1.5 hours Venue:           Face-to-Face Session: Room V322, Jockey Club Innovation Towe, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Pre-registration by 29 December 2021 is required:https://polyu.hk/nLmcM) OR Synchronous Online Session (via Zoom): https://polyu.hk/yUnNK Programme Leaflet: EIE Undergraduate Leaflet Programme Details and Online Application: BEng in Electronic and Information Engineering (42470-SY): http://www51.polyu.edu.hk/eprospectus/ug/non-jupas-adhd-grad/2022/42470-sy BSc in Internet and Multimedia Technologies (42477-SY): http://www51.polyu.edu.hk/eprospectus/ug/non-jupas-adhd-grad/2022/42477-sy BSc in Information Security (42480):  http://www51.polyu.edu.hk/eprospectus/ug/non-jupas-adhd-grad/2022/42480

Best Paper Award 2021 from the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Dr Liang Liu received the Best Paper Award 2021 from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for his paper “Massive Connectivity With Massive MIMO—Part I: Device Activity Detection and Channel Estimation” which was published on the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing journal in June 2018. The award honors the authors of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s technical scope, and appearing in one of the Society’s solely owned transactions irrespective of the author’s age. Device activity detection and channel estimation are crucial components for wireless massive connectivity applications. This paper shows that the vector AMP algorithm is a natural tool for sparse activity detection. Utilizing the state evolution analysis, both the missed detection and false alarm probabilities and channel estimation error can be analytically characterized. Further, in the massive MIMO regime, perfect device activity detection can be guaranteed, but channel estimation error remains.

Information Seminar for the MSc in EIE Programme

An Information Seminar for the MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering Programme will be held on 8 January 2022, Sat, at 4 pm – 5 pm, via Zoom at https://polyu.hk/OzQRo. The MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering Programme offers two specialism options including "Internet of Things" & "Multimedia Signal Processing and Communication". Please find more details about the programme below. Programme Leaflet: Download Leaflet Programme Details:  https://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/mscinfo Online Application:  http://www51.polyu.edu.hk/eprospectus/tpg/2022/05002-ni-eit

The EIE Newsletter (2021/22 Semester 1 Issue) is available now

The EIE Newsletter (2021/22 Semester 1 Issue) is available now

TVB episode on fibre optic sensing system in MTR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POcPJfU8VDc

Second Runner-up in the Capture the Flag (CTF) Cybersecurity Competition

Supervised by Dr Haibo Hu and coached by Mr Kong Chun Ho (EIE MPhil student), a PolyU team comprised of Ma Kam Wa (BSc in INS student), Leung Hon Lam (BSc in INS student), Cheng Shiu Wang Ethan (BSc in IMT student) and Sham Wing Chung (COMP student), attained the Second Runner-up in the Capture the Flag (CTF) Cybersecurity Competition which was organized by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in their HackaDay 2021 on 1 December 2021. The competition aims at increasing the general awareness of the importance of cybersecurity among the youths in Hong Kong and Macau. The HackaDay also serves as a platform for the future talents to raise their competency level for a meaningful career in cybersecurity. Around 80 students in 21 teams from Hong Kong and Macau joined this competition which tested their technical knowledge and analytical skills under five hacking challenges.

Grand Prize of the 7th Hong Kong University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

Led by Prof. Gang Li, a team of research staff and student including Liu Kuan, Ren Zhiwei and Zhang Heng Kai, won the Grand Prize (Innovation category) of the 7th Hong Kong University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition! The Competition was held by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association which aims to promote science and innovation education in Hong Kong. The research team attained the First Prize for their project “High Performance Solution-Processed Perovskite Solar Cell Towards Sustainable Development” in the Innovation - Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering category of the Competition in May this year. The winning project was further selected by the judges as the only Grand Prize winner among the 39 awardees in the Innovation category. The team members received the Grand Prize from the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Government, Mrs Carrie Lam, in the Prize Presentation Ceremony on 27 November 2021.

Prof. Gang Li has been named 2022 Optica Fellow by Optica and 2021 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.

We are pleased to share that Prof. Gang Li has been elected a Fellow of the Optica for 2022 for his seminal and sustained contributions to the research and development of organic solar cells and perovskite solar cells! This distinction was awarded by the Optica, formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA), to 106 members from 24 countries, for their significant contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics through education, research, engineering, business and service. It is a distinguished honor as the number of Fellows is limited to no more than 10% of the total Optica membership and the number elected each year is limited to approximately 0.5% of the current membership total.  Also, Prof. Gang Li has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by the Clarivate Analytics for 8 consecutive years since 2014. Prof. Li is acknowledged in the category of cross-field of the Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list recently. The Highly Cited Researchers are the most influential researchers who have published multiple papers frequently cited by their peers that rank in the top 1% of citations for field and year in the Web of Science.  Prof. Li’s research interests are organic semiconductor, and organo-metal halide hybrid perovskite based thin-film optoelectronic devices. He has published more than 160 journal papers including the paper on printed perovskite solar cell on Nature Photonics, and a Nature Communications paper on organic polymer solar cell this year. Congratulations to Prof. Li for his achievement!