Gordon Lei and Chen Xia won the best paper (Champion and 2nd runner up respectively) prizes at the 10th IEEE Photonics Society HK Chapter Postgraduate Conference held on Saturday 28 November at HKUST. Congratulations!

ZHENG Hongying has been awarded the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence CNOOC Grants at the University of California, Berkeley for 3 months.

Congratulations to Boapu Li, Simon Yichen Fan, and Lin Qi for winning the Best Student Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (IEEE Robio 2009). The award winning paper is entitled "Intestinal polyp recognition in capsule endoscopy images usingcolor and shape features", co-authored by Baopu Li, Simon Yichen Fan, MaxQ.-H. Meng, and Lin Qi. The winning paper was selected from a competition of more than 500 papers from 25 countries and regions.

Li Wen, one of our graduating undergraduate students, will be admitted to PhD program in UC Berkeley this fall

Born in Beijing, Li Wen came to Hong Kong after high school to study Electronic Engineering (minor in Mathematics) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a scholarship covering fees and living costs. She researched on THz supervised by Prof. Kam-Tai Chan as a sophomore. In her junior year at college, she studied abroad at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and started research on integrated circuits under Prof. Yun Chiu. She continued exploring IC area in her senior design under Prof. Kong-Pang Pun's supervision. The design was comparator-based switched-capacitor circuits which were used to replace traditional operational amplifiers for scaled CMOS technologies. She was admitted to graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley starting in the Fall 2008 semester, with an EECS Department Fellowship.

Congratulations to Ms Li Wen , Prof. K.T. Chan and Prof. K.P Pun!