Dr. Tak-keung Liang, PhD graduate of our Department last year, has won the HKIS Young Scientist Award 2005, Engineering Science Panel. The award was annouced and presented at the Annual Conference of Hong Kong Institution of Science held at Polytechnic Univ last Saturday. The title of his work is "Optical amplifiers and nonlinear switching devices on silicon waveguides". The thesis supervisor of Dr. Liang is Prof. HK Tsang.

Dr. Liang won the Outstanding Thesis Award 2004 of Engineering Faculty, CUHK for his thesis entitled "Silicon Planar Lightwave Circuits: Raman Amplification and Polarization Processing" last year and is also one of the recipients of the Award for the Best Research Output by Research Postgraduate Students 2004, CUHK. He is now working in National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan.

Congratulations to Dr. Liang and Prof. Tsang !

An outstanding paper award was presented to Optoelectronics Lab members in the International Symposium on Technology Fusion of Optoelectronic and Communications, Taipei, May 17-22, 2005 for the paper entitled "Optical Pulse Repetition-Rate Multiplication by Spectral Elimination Using a Birefringence Loop Mirror Filter" by M. P. Fok, W. W. Tang, and C. Shu.

Moreover, Mable Fok has been awarded the 2005 IEEE/LEOS Student Travel Grant. This a global competition that competes for a total of 16 grants to present work at one of the 7 major LEOS sponsored conferences: LEOS Annual Meeting, OFC, CLEO, CLEO/Pacific Rim, CLEO/Europe, OECC, and ECOC.

At the 6th Asian-Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (APCMBE) held in Japan, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., a postgraduate student of BME Lab, was awarded Young Investigator's Award (YIA) for the paper "A new symmetric cryptosystem of body area sensor networks for telemedicine". She also won the YIA Best Presentation Award in the YIA finalist session. Besides, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. was awarded Young Investigator Encouragement Award for the paper "The aging effect on the characteristic of photoplethsmogram waveform".

The conference was held from 24th to 27th April 2005, co-sponsored by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). It is one of the most flourishing conferences, reflecting rapid growth of Asian-Pacific region in both scientific and economic sense.

The EE participating team, CUEERA (翼虎入樽), has won the Robocon 2005 Hong Kong Contest in the 2nd runner up position among the 13 teams from 5 HK universities, achieving the best result among the 4 CUHK teams (2 from ACAE, 1 from CSE, and 1 from EE):

http://robocon2005.etvonline.tv/robocon2005_contestants.html

The champion is from UST and the 1st runner up is from HKU, which is the same team who won last year's championship. The UST team will represent Hong Kong to go to the next level contest in Beijing. Here is a summary of the results:

「全港大專生機械人大賽 – 登長城．點聖火」獎項得主:

冠軍:香港科技大學聖火令隊

亞軍:香港大學格物隊

季軍:香港科技大學中華鐵漢隊

季軍:香港中文大學翼虎入樽隊

最佳藝術設計獎:香港科技大學中華鐵漢隊

最佳工程設計獎:香港科技大學聖火令隊

The Robocon 2005 program will be shown on TV:
電視特輯於七月十日（星期日）晚上七時，在亞視本港台播映。

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