Dr. Wang, Xiaomu, a PhD graduate of EE (2012), is selected as an Awardee under Youth 1000 Talents Scheme. His host university is Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

You may obtain more information at http://www.1000plan.org/qrjh/article/60439

Songlin Liu (Ph.D. student in EE) won the certificate of merit in the student poster competition in the 3rd Biotechnology World Congress (Multicellularity: perspectives from air-liquid interface biofilms | supervisor: Douglas Yung) Congratulations!

Chi Fung Fei won the silver award in the HKEIA project competition. The project is her final-year project under Prof. Lee Tan's supervision. Below is her project description and feeling for receipt of award.

My project was named “Automatic Recognition for Visual Speech Commands”. Under the supervision of Professor Tan LEE, I developed a human-dependent visual-speech recognition method for Cantonese commands identification which is able to identify some simple Cantonese sentences from videos with front face captured, without evaluating audio signals. The method is expected to be used in user-dependent applications that aimed to help people with vocal cords problem, for example ex-Laryngeal cancer patient.

The competition provided students a great chance to apply the theoretical knowledge learnt in the past three years to real world situations. During the project development, I encounter many difficulties and they taught me the importance of multidimensional thinking and perseverance. All these experiences were valuable and cannot gain from textbooks. I was also very grateful for Professor LEE’s support and advice.

Congratulations to Fung Fei!

Dr. Zhenzhou Cheng has been selected to receive the Faculty’s outstanding PhD Thesis Award 2013. His thesis title is "Graphene-on-Silicon Suspended Membrane Planar Lightwave Circuits".

Zhenzhou Cheng was working toward the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. H. K. Tsang in the Department of Electronic Engineering from 2010 to 2013. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the same department. He has won the Hong Kong Research Grant Council Ph.D. Fellowship Award in 2010, and the Young Scientist Award from Hong Kong Institute of Science in 2013. His current research is focused on the silicon suspended membrane devices and graphene-on-silicon devices.

Congratulations!