Christy K. Y. Fung was awarded the Best Student Paper of Section at the 16th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2011) held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 4-8, 2011. The paper was entitled "Distributed Bragg Reflector Based on Shallow-Etched Side Cladding Grating" by Christy K.Y. Fung, Xia Chen and Professor Hon Ki Tsang.

Marco Ho, Ph.D. student from the Department of Electronic Engineering (Supervisor: Prof. Alex Leung) has been awarded Best Paper Award at IEEE Student Symposium on Electron Devices & Solid-State Circuits held on December 15, 2011 in Hong Kong. The paper is entitled "A High-Loop-Gain-Bandwidth Nanoscale Low-Dropout Regulator with All Minimum-Channel-Length Transistors" by Marco Ho and Alex Leung.

Ma Lin, PhD student from the Electronic Engineering Department (Supervisor: Prof. Ngan King Ngan) has recently been awarded the prestigious 2011 Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) Fellowship.

The Fellowship Program was established in 1999. It aims to encourage and recognize outstanding PhD students in the Asia-Pacific region to realize their potential in research areas of computer science, electrical engineering, information science, and applied mathematics. Each year only 2 fellowships are awarded to postgraduate students in Hong Kong.

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A team by Lo Wing Sum (EE), Pun Chun Wing (EE) and So Ka Yan (BME) won Gold Medal at iGEM.

iGEM stands for International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition, a high-profile competition in synthetic biology among undergraduates from different institutes worldwide. iGEM is held every year in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, United States. The goal of the competition is to build simple biological systems from standard, interchangeable parts and operate them in living cells. Teams are given about 6 months of time to build their system during the summer break and the autumn.