To recognize outstanding graduates of EIE for their achievements and contributions to the community, the Department has set up the EIE Outstanding Alumni Award. Six EIE alumni were selected by the selection panel for the award this year. Congratulations to the following recipients of the EIE Outstanding Alumni Award 2022!
Outstanding Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
Mr LAM Wing Chap, Peter
Higher Diploma in Electronic Engineering 1982
Mr Lam Wing Chap joined the Hong Kong Telephone Company in 1973. With 48 years of service with the company, he had held senior positions in engineering, sales, marketing and wholesale business. Before his retirement from the company in May 2021, he was the Managing Director, Engineering of HKT Limited. He was primarily responsible for the planning and operation of the fixed and wireless networks, and supported a wide range of quadruple-play telecommunications services including voice, data, broadband, interactive multimedia, mobile and ICT projects in Hong Kong and overseas.
Mr Lam graduated with a Higher Diploma in Electronic Engineering in 1982 from the Hong Kong Polytechnic. He earned a Diploma in Management for Executive Development in 1991 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and joined the Cable & Wireless International Executive Development Program at INSEAD, France in 1997.
Mr Lam was the Chairman of the Joint Utilities Policy Group (JUPG) (2012-2015), the Vice Chairman of Communications Association of Hong Kong (2018-2022), a member of Departmental Advisory Committee of Department of Computing, PolyU (2014-2018), a member of Departmental Advisory Committee of Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU (2018-2019) and the Chairman of Departmental Advisory Committee of Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU (2019-2021).
Mr Lam is now serving Huawei as a Principal Consultant at headquarter.
Outstanding Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
Dr MUNG Wai Yin, Steve
Higher Diploma in Electronic and Information Engineering 2003
After graduation from the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Dr Mung Wai Yin received the BSc degree in Applied Physics with first class honours from the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and finally received the PhD degrees from CityU in 2012. With more than 15 years of industrial experience and operations in the design and manufacturing of electronic products, Dr Mung is now working in Sana Semiconductors Limited. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of EIE and the co-founder and company representative of the PolyU-Innovation Technology (HK) Audio and Speech Signal Processing Joint Laboratory.
Dr Mung has published and invented more than 100 journals, conference papers, China/US patents related to wireless/speech/audio technologies. He raised around HKD 20M of funding in PolyU and company since 2019. Dr Mung serves as a reviewer for several IEEE journals and committee member in the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc), Audio/Video Systems and Signal Processing Technical Committee (AVS TC), and Instrument Science and Technology Group Committee in Institute of Physics (IOP). He is also a member of reviewing board in the MTT-Sat Challenge. He is Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInsP), Fellow of Institute of Science and Technology (FIScT), Senior Member of IEEE, and Chartered Scientist (Science Council, UK).
Outstanding Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
Dr YIU Hing Leung
Master of Science in Electronic Engineering 1996
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electronic Engineering 1990
Dr Yiu Hing Leung, Head of Re-industrialisation Division at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), spearheads the key infrastructures and initiatives in driving re-industrialisation at HKSTP. By providing the state-of-the-art and purpose-designed facilities with special provisions, Dr Yiu fosters advanced industries and smart production in INNOPARK in Tai Po, Yuen Long and Tseung Kwan O with an ultimate goal to revitalise them to be the base of advanced manufacturing. He strongly believes that re-industrialisation can further elevate the "Made in Hong Kong" label as both an internationally recognized brand and a source of local pride.
Before heading re-industrialisation, Dr Yiu was the lead in the Electronics, Materials, Precision Engineering Clusters and managed over 300 companies of this domain in HKSTP. Leveraging his business development experience and technical expertise in semiconductors and integrated circuit, electronics, information technology, telecommunications and computing, Dr Yiu secured a few key tenants, and drove key initiatives under the Robotics Platform including Robotics Alliance and Robotics Conference.
Prior to HKSTP, Dr Yiu assumed the role of senior executive in both start-up and MNC. Working in Motorola Semiconductor for over 15 years, Dr Yiu was the General Manager Asia, Networking and Computing Group before he left. Being the brain of the famous DragonBall microprocessor, Dr Yiu was one of the key inventors of this successful project which does not only contribute to the development of the personal digital assistant / handheld computers today, but also proves him a visionary leader and an innovator with eight patents.
Graduated with Bachelor and Master of Electronic Engineering as well as the Doctor of Business Administration degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr Yiu continued his education in Executive MBA, Finance and Juris Doctor from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and an Executive Committee Member of Hong Kong Automation Technology Council and Hong Kong Electronics Industry Council of the FHKI.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
Dr CHU Kai Fung
Master of Science in Electronic and Information Engineering 2016
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electronic and Information Engineering 2013
Dr Chu Kai Fung received the PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2020, and the MSc and BEng (First Class Honours) degrees both in Electronic and Information Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2016 and 2013 respectively. He is a Research Fellow in the School of Aerospace at the Cranfield University. He published over ten papers to top-tier journals and conferences with over one hundred and thirty citations. He won several awards and scholarships, including Champion of IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter Graduate Student Paper Competition, Second Runner-up of HKUEAA Enginnovate, EIE Scholarships for Postgraduate Scheme in Engineering, EIE Alumni Scholarship, Chiap Hua Cheng’s Foundation Scholarship, Dean’s Honours List, and several best GPA awards. Besides his academic background, he was a Senior Research Engineer and Project Engineer in the industry in 2020-2022 and 2013-2016. He co-founded a technology startup company, and his project is funded by HKSTP Ideation and PolyU Micro Fund. His research interests include artificial intelligence, intelligent transportation systems, autonomous vehicles and adversarial machine learning.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Community Service Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
Mr TSE Siu Kei, Dominic
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electronic and Information Engineering 2010
Mr Tse Siu Kei graduated from the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering in 2010. In 2016, he obtained Master of Science in Technology Management in PolyU. Mr Tse is well-accomplished in Information Technology and worked in various well known banks as well as virtual banks in Hong Kong. He is now working as Assistant Vice President of Infrastructure Platform Services at United Overseas Bank.
Mr Tse has been actively involved in student and alumni activities in PolyU and Hong Kong Community College of PolyU. He is currently the Chairman of Alumni Associate of Electronic and Information Engineering (AAEIE) and the Honorable Advisor of Hong Kong Community College Alumni Associate (HKCCAA). Mr Tse also contributed to PolyU at university level. He was the Director of the Federation of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Alumni Associations (FHKPUAA) for over 10 years. In 2021, he was elected as the 1st Vice President of FHKPUAA.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Scholarly Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
Dr WAN Shibiao
Doctor of Philosophy 2014
Dr Wan Shibiao is an Assistant Professor of the University of Nabraska Medical Center. Dr Wan obtained his PhD degree from PolyU in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Man-Wai Mak. Dr Wan received his postdoctoral training from University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University during 2016-2019. Before joining the University of Nabraska Medical Center, Dr Wan was a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the top pediatric cancer hospitals in the US. With more than 10 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr Wan has published more than 40 articles in prestigious journals like Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr Wan is an academic editor for BioMed Research International and a guest associate editor for a series of high-impact journals including Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Biology, and Frontiers in Genetics. He is a TPC member for more than 20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI, IEEE IAICT, IEEE IoTaIS, and IEEE SOFTT. Dr Wan is also a reviewer for around 50 prestigious journals including IEEE TNNLS, Nucleic Acids Research, Genomic Medicine, and Briefings in Bioinformatics. He is a recipient of the global top peer review awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 awarded by Clarivate.
