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Wong Wing Yi, Winnie, appointed as PolyU Student Ambassador

Our EE student, Miss WONG Wing Yi, Winnie, has been appointed as one of the 21 PolyU Student Ambassadors.   Professor CY Chung, Head of Department, Professor Alan Lau and Dr Isaac Fung joined the Inauguration Ceremony for PolyU Student Ambassadors 2022-23 and shared her happiness with other student ambassadors.  After a series of training and briefings, Ms. Wong will contribute PolyU in supporting various promotional activities.  All the best to Winnie and thanks for her enthusiasm in performing the ambassadorial duties!

Two Days University Experience Programme 2022 (Online)

Date: 16 and 17 August 2022 (Tue & Wed) Time: starting from 2:15 p.m. Format: 7 online lectures on engineering applications A chance to join a campus and lab tour Welcome secondary 4 - 5 students taking Science, ICT or M1/M2 subject(s) who have interested in Engineering study. Online Registration

Best Paper Award in the International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology 2022

Prof. Kenneth Lam and our PhD student, Mr Jun Xiao, won the Best Paper Award in the International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT) 2022 for their paper “Multi-level Feature Aggregation Network for High Dynamic Range Imaging”. The International Workshop on Advanced Image Technology is a well-known international event that gathers researchers, professors, students and interested persons in the field of advanced image technology. Modern digital cameras typically cannot capture the whole range of illumination, due to the limited sensing capability of sensor devices. High dynamic range (HDR) imaging aims to generate images with a larger range of illumination by merging multiple low-dynamic range (LDR) images with different exposure times. However, when the images are captured in dynamic scenes, existing methods unavoidably produce undesirable artifacts and distorted content. In this paper, the research team proposed a multi-level feature aggregation network, based on the Laplacian pyramid, to address this issue for HDR imaging. The proposed method progressively aggregates non-overlapping frequency sub-bands at different pyramid levels, and generates the corresponding HDR image from coarser to finer scales. This method can significantly outperform other competitive HDR methods, thereby producing HDR images with high visual quality.

Best Student Paper Award in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Dr Liang Liu and his collaborators in the Chinese Academy of Sciences won the Best Student Paper Award in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) for their paper “Efficiently and Globally Solving Joint Beamforming and Compression Problem in the Cooperative Cellular Network Via Lagrangian Duality". ICASSP is the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications. Dr Liu’s research team considers the joint beamforming and quantization problem in the cooperative cellular network, where multiple relay-like base stations connected to the central processor via rate-limited fronthaul links cooperatively serve the users. In this paper, they first show that there is no duality gap between the considered problem and its Lagrangian dual by showing the tightness of the semidefinite relaxation (SDR) of the considered problem. Then they propose an efficient algorithm based on Lagrangian duality for solving the considered problem. The proposed algorithm is highly efficient and is guaranteed to find the global solution of the problem.

Champion of the Tertiary Education Category in the Hong Kong Electronics Project Competition 2022

Supervised by Dr Ivan Ho, our MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering Programme student, Guo Jingtao, obtained the Champion of the Tertiary Education Category in the Hong Kong Electronics Project Competition 2022! The competition was organized by the Electronics Division of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) with the theme of “Advancing Innovation and Technology in New Normal Smart City” this year. It aims to uplift the awareness and knowledge of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in Hong Kong, and to nurture engineers to apply innovative IoT technologies to improve the quality of life. The winning project “Channel State Information (CSI) based Self-quarantine Monitoring System” proposed a system to monitor people under self-quarantine using wireless sensing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. The system is user-friendly and privacy-preserving without the use of any wearable devices. The prize presentation ceremony was held in the Hong Kong Electronics Symposium 2022 on 25 July 2022.

Prof. Gang Li awarded RGC Senior Research Fellow 2022/23

The University has been awarded three of the ten grants under the Research Grants Council's (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) 2022/23. The SRFS aims to provide sustained support to exceptionally outstanding researchers at UGC-funded universities in Hong Kong to facilitate their dedication to research and development. Prof. Gang Li is one of the PolyU outstanding scholars who is conferred the title of RGC Senior Research Fellow and will receive HKD 7.7 million SRFS funding for his research project “Printable Organic Solar Cells: Materials and Device Investigations towards Applications”. Organic solar cell (OSC) is an emerging photovoltaic (PV) technology with distinct advantages in many areas, such as flexible/portable PV, building integrated PV and transparent power applications. Aiming at accelerating the OSC technology, Prof. Li proposed a systematic plan to tackle the challenges in OSC. The project will significantly push forward OSC technology in terms of high efficiency, stability, compatibility with unique applications and being printing friendly. The proposed research represents a new frontier for OSC technology, which integrates chemistry, physics and material science to generate new perspectives in science and come up with solutions to challenging issues in renewable energy.

Dr Pauli Lai and Dr Haibo Hu won the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement 2022

We are pleased to share that Dr Pauli Lai and Dr Haibo Hu won the 2022 Faculty Individual Merit Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, and Research and Scholarly Activities (Outstanding Researcher) respectively! The winners are chosen by the Faculty Assessment Panel, comprising Heads and chaired by the Dean of Faculty Engineering, from amongst a pool of well-qualified nominees put forward by individual departments. The selection is made with reference to the indicative criteria for assessment as laid down by the University to recognize the awardees for their outstanding performances in the related areas. Congratulations to Dr Lai and Dr Hu for their achievements!

1st Runner Up in Cybersecurity Purple Team Competition 2022

Led by Dr Haibo Hu, our Capture The Flag (CTF) team won the 1st Runner Up in the Cybersecurity Purple Team Competition 2022! The competition was organized by the Cybersecurity Centre of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education. It aims to arouse the interest of the public in cybersecurity and nurture talents for the industry. The team members, including Cheng Shiu Wang Ethan (BSc in IMT student), Leung Hon Lam (BSc in INS student), Ng Cheuk Wing (BSc in INS student) and Sham Wing Chung (COMP student), participated in the trainings provided by the Cybersecurity Centre in May, and the competitions on 14 and 28 May 2022 to compete with other contestants from different institutions on the challenges which were integrated with the red, blue and purple teams’ security elements.

The EIE Newsletter (2021/22 Semester 2 Issue) is available now

The EIE Newsletter (2021/22 Semester 2 Issue) is available now

Winning in Global Social Innovation Summit 2022

Our BEng in EIE student, Rizalino Antonio LABOS, won the Champion in the Accenture Case in the Global Social Innovation Summit 2022 between 18 and 19 June 2022 together with three teammates from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The Summit was organized by the Enactus Hong Kong to inspire university students to explore issues related to the green economy and promote the concepts of social innovation. The contestants were required to solve real-life cases from international corporations and social businesses. The winning team proposed to develop a VR experience and reward tracking app that could encourage the Accenture employees to adopt a sustainable lifestyle.