"e-challenge" is a business plan competition organized by the Young Entrepreneurs Development Council (www.ydc.org.hk ). This year, e-challenge has achieved a record high number of entries. The organiser received 137 proposals submitted from 180 teams coming from all local universities. CUHK students won the top 2 prizes. In fact, this is the second year engineering students formed teams with MBA students and won the e-challenge.

Congratulations to the winning team! Let's do better next time!

Mr. NG Chong Chon, MPhil student from the Microwave Lab, has won the 1st - Runner UP in the "Young Members Exhibition/Conference 2005 in the Postgraduate Section organised by the IEE Hong Kong Younger Members Section among a lot of top students from well-known universities around the world. The winning title is: Ultra Low Power 2.4GHz CMOS Dual-Modules Prescaler Design

Congratulations to Mr. Ng and Prof. Michael CHENG!

Mr. An Jin, supervised by Prof. J.B. Xu, has won the Best Poster Award from ICMAT2005 (International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies). The title was Electrical and Photonic Properties of CsS Nanoribbon Devices. For more information, the Best Poster Award was very competitive, because there were more than 1500 posters and 25 symposia, and each symposium could only select ONE. In Symposium G (Nanodevices and Nanofabrication) where An Jin's one was presented, there were about 100 posters. The Award was conveyed by President of National University of Singapore with the presence of 2 Nobel Laureates. NUS intends to be the best 10 universities in the world in next decade or beyond. Besides, there were more than 2200 delegates from more than 50 countries, including 3 Noble Laureates.

Congratulations to Mr. An Jin and Prof. J.B. Xu!

Zhenzhong Chen, a PhD Student from the Visual Signal Processing and Communications Lab, has won the prestigious Microsoft Fellowship award which carries a US$6000 scholarship and an internship at the Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) in Beijing. Microsoft Fellows are selected from the very best of PhD students in the 50+ top universities in Asia after a competitive process. Winning this means not only 6,000 USD scholarship, but honor and recognition. The scholarship will be awarded at a ceremony during the MSRA Faculty Summit in Beijing later in the year(2005).

This is the second time our department has received the prestigious Microsoft Fellowship Award. In 2003, Qian Yao of the DSP Lab was the recipient of the Award.

Congratulations, Zhenzhong!

Zhenzhong Chen receives the coveted Microsoft Fellowship award from Microsoft Senior Vice-President (Research), Dr Rick Rashid on 4th Nov, 2005: