Achievements

Prof. ChangyuanYu won the 2023 Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement on Research and Scholarly Activities

Congratulations for Prof. Changyuan Yu on winning the 2023 Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement on Research and Scholarly Activities! The winners of the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement are chosen by the Faculty Assessment Panel, comprising Heads and chaired by the Dean of Faculty Engineering, to recognize the awardees for their outstanding performances in the related areas.

PolyU Young Innovative Researcher Award (YIRA) 2023

We are pleased to share that Dr Shuowen Zhang won the PolyU Young Innovative Researcher Award (YIRA) 2023! YIRA is organized by the Research and Innovation Office to encourage young PolyU researchers under the age of 35 who have demonstrated novelty, contributed to technology advancement, and propelled transformational innovation into solutions for addressing problems in society. Dr Zhang attained the award for her research focus on smart and reconfigurable 6G wireless networks aided by intelligent reflecting surface. She will be granted a research funding support of HK$500,000 for recognizing her dedication to advancing knowledge and making a positive impact on society.

EIE Outstanding Alumni Award 2023

  We are pleased to share that Ir Dr Barry Mok Kwan-tat and Dr Fengze Tan have been selected as the EIE Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2023 recipients for recognizing their professional and entrepreneurial achievements respectively! Please find more details of the award at: https://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/eieoaa/

Merit Prize of Information Technology in the 9th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

  Our BEng in EIE student, Tam Pak Sam, won the Merit Prize of Information Technology in the 9th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for his final-year project “Water Drinking and Pill Taking Reminder” on 3 June 2023. The Competition is organized by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, and co-organized by the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation with the support from the Innovation and Technology Commission to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among tertiary students. Supervised by Dr Lawrence Cheung, this final-year project aims to develop a system that helps the staff in hospital wards and nursing homes to monitor the water and pill consumption of the people receiving care in a convenient and systematic way.

IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award 2023

Dr Shuowen Zhang won the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award 2023 for her paper “Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Wireless Communications: A Tutorial” published on IEEE Transactions on Communications! The award recognizes the best tutorial paper published in any IEEE Communications Society magazine or journal in the previous five calendar years. Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements, IRS is capable of dynamically altering wireless channels to enhance the communication performance. It is thus expected that the new IRS-aided hybrid wireless network comprising both active and passive components will be highly promising to achieve a sustainable capacity growth cost-effectively in the future. Despite its great potential, IRS faces new challenges to be efficiently integrated into wireless networks, such as reflection optimization, channel estimation, and deployment from communication design perspectives. Dr Zhang provides a tutorial overview of IRS-aided wireless communications to address the above issues, and elaborate its reflection and channel models, hardware architecture and practical constraints, as well as various appealing applications in wireless networks. Important directions worthy of further investigation in future work are also highlighted in this winning paper.

PolyU Outstanding Student Award of Faculty of Engineering 2022

Congratulations to Miss Fang Jiaying, our BEng in EIE student, on winning the PolyU Outstanding Student Award of Faculty of Engineering 2022! The Outstanding Student Award aims to motivate students to excel in their academic pursuits as well as to strive for personal development. Miss Fang received the award at the presentation ceremony in the Chiang Chen Studio Theatre on 20 March 2023 for recognizing her achievements in academic studies, active participation in extra-curricular activities and passion for community service.

Congratulations to Professor Changyuan Yu for winning the Faculty of Engineering Research Grant Achievement Award!

  Congratulations to Professor Changyuan Yu for winning the Faculty of Engineering Research Grant Achievement Award! The award was given by the Faculty Research Committee to recognize Professor Yu’s outstanding performance in securing external competitive research grants for the period between 2017 and 2021.

Results and photo album for the Microcontroller Application Design Contest (2022-23)

16 teams of finalists presented the designs of their microcontroller-based electronic products in the EIE Microcontroller Application Design Contest (2022-23) in February. Please find the results and the photo album of the Contest at https://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/event/madc2022-23/.

Second Prize Award of Huawei ICT Competition Hong Kong SAR 2022-2023

Supervised by Dr Lawrence Cheung, a team of PolyU students, including Au-Yeung Chak Him (EIE student), Bi Jingyun (EIE student) and Li Jingyu (AMA student), won the Second Prize Award of the Huawei ICT Competition Hong Kong SAR 2022-2023 in December 2022. The Huawei ICT Competition is a competitive ICT talent exchange event developed by the Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. for global college students with the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer of the HKSAR Government as the advisor. The competition attracted more than 600 participants this year. It aims to promote the healthy development of the ICT talent ecosystem and support the integration of industry and education. The content of the competition includes cloud track and IT technologies such as big data, storage and AI. It provides an excellent platform to enrich the ICT knowledge of university students, and nurture innovation and technology talent to sustain the long-term development of Hong Kong.

Champion of PwC HackaDay CTF Competition

Supervised by Dr Haibo Hu, the PolyU Capture The Flag (CTF) Team comprised of Sham Wing Chung (COMP student), Leung Hon Lam (BSc in INS student), Ho Ka Yui (BSc in INS student) and Kwan Chun Kit (BSc in IMT student), won the Champion of the PwC HackaDay CTF Competition on 24 November 2022. HackaDay is the PwC Hong Kong’s annual flagship event which holds competitions for undergraduate students from Hong Kong and Macau to understand more about cybersecurity and cloud ecosystems. It aims to raise students’ competency level and prepare them for a meaningful career in cybersecurity with the CTF Competition. The contestants were required to expose themselves to real-life scenarios during this competition. The contest provided a centralized platform for future cybersecurity talents to learn, hack and co-secure the environment and society.