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.

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Mr. YAO Yi Fei and Ms. YUAN Yi Xuan, Ph.D. students in BME Division of the Department of Electronic Engineering, have been selected to receive an award under the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence for 2014-15. The award is to assist students to undertake a research attachment at overseas universities:

Mr. YAO Yi Fei:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Sheffield, UK (3.5 months)

Ms. YUAN Yi Xuan:
Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA (6 months)

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ZHENG Minhua’s collaboration work with the CARIS Lab during her visit to The University of British Columbia has won the Best Paper Award in the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Zheng Minhua is a Ph.D. student supervised by Professor Max Q.H. Meng. The awarded paper is titled “Meet Me Where I’m Gazing: How Shared Attention Gaze Affects Human-Robot Handover Timing”. Her visit to UBC was supported by the CUHK Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence 2013-2014.

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Xiao Fu won an ICASSP2014 Best Paper Award

Xiao Fu (center), a Ph.D. student supervised by Professor Wing-Kin Ma (left) and by Professor Nikos Sidiropoulos (right) during his overseas exchange in the University of Minnesota, received a 3rd Prize of the ICASSP 2014 Best Student Paper Award. ICASSP is the largest and most prestigious conference in signal processing. The paper is titled "Blind Spectra Separation and Direction Finding for Cognitive Radio Using Temporal Correlation-domain ESPRIT."

EE CUHK offers students great exchange opportunities. In fact, the research work leading to the awarded paper was carried out during Xiao's overseas exchange in the University of Minnesota.

Prof. Wing-Kin Ma (EE) and Prof. Man-Cho So (SEEM) gave a tutorial in ICASSP 2014

Professor Wing-Kin Ma (left), together with Professor Anthony Man-Cho So at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (right), gave a tutorial in ICASSP 2014. The tutorial, titled "Semidefinite Relaxation: From Theory to Applications to Latest Advances," describes a very powerful class of methods in signal processing - namely, semidefinite relaxation - which finds numerous applications and has significant impacts on key research topics such as MIMO detection, transmit beamforming and interference management, and sensor network localization.