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!

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

Carlos Law, MPhil student from the Microwave Lab (supervisor: Prof. KK Cheng) has been awarded the Champion of the Postgraduate Section and the Overall Champion on the IET (HK) YMEC 2008 held on June 22, 2008. His presentation title is on Advanced Microwave Circuit Design for Multi-band Applications. The Award consists of a HK$1000 cash prize, a trophy and a certificate. He has also been invited to attend the "Present Around the World" competition held in Malaysia (organized by IET) last July.

The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) is an international professional institution based in UK with over 150,000 members worldwide. Younger Members Exhibition and Conference 2008 (YMEC 2008) is an exhibition and conference, at which students from tertiary institutions and young professionals (aged under 35) from industry will present their projects or research. The judges are experts from various academic and industrial fields.