Prof. Blu's PhD student, Florian Luisier, has been selected to receive a Young Author Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, for a paper on image denoising published in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2007). More info...

Ip Wei Chi, MPhil student from the Microwave Lab (supervisor: Prof. Michael Cheng) has been awarded the Champion of the IET (HK) YMEC 2010 (Postgraduate Section) held on July 11, 2010. The title of his presentation is Design and Implementation of Compact Microwave Power Divider with Spurious Suppression. The Award consists of a cash prize, a trophy and a certificate. Younger Members Exhibition and Conference (YMEC) is an annual event, at which students from the local tertiary institutions will present their projects or research works.

Congratulations to Li Qiang and Zhang Wei for winning the 1st and the 3rd prize of the Postgraduate Forum of the IEEE HK Chapter of Signal Processing ! Well done!

Chen Xia was awarded Bronze prize (US$2000 ) of the TSMC outstanding student research award in the category of Green Electronics for his PhD thesis work on silicon photonics . Over 200 students from around the world competed for the prizes. Winners of the 4 different categories were from University of Cambridge, Cornell, UC Berkeley and Georgia Institute of Technology.

For details of the award winners please see:

http://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&language=E&newsid=5121.