LEE Sim Heung, MPhil student from Optoelectronics Lab, was awarded the Best Student Paper Award in CLEO/Pacific Rim, July 11-15, Tokyo, in the category of "Optical communications and interconnections" for the work entitiled "All Optical ASK to DPSK Format Conversion Using Cross-Phase Modulation in a Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber" by S. H. Lee, K. K. Chow, C. Shu, and Chinlon Lin.
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., PhD student from the Optoelectronics Lab, has won the 2005 IEEE LEOs Graduate Student Fellowship. The Prize carries a U.S. $5,000 cash award, plus US $2,500 travel expenses for the fellowship recipient to attend the Award Presentation at the LEOs Annual Meeting in Australia, October 2005. The Fellowships are awarded to 12 outstanding LEOS student members pursuing graduate education within the LEOS field of interest. Two fellowships are awarded to students in Asia (the other goes to Univ. of Tokyo). Other recipients are from Stanford Univ, Cal. Tech., Univ. of Illinois, Purdue Univ, UC Santa Barbara, Univ. College of London, Eindhoven Univ of Technology, and Technische Universitat Berlin. The details are announced at the IEEE LEOs website http://www.i-leos.org/
Congratulations to Mable and Prof. Chester SHU!
Two of our PhD students, Owen Kwok (supervised by Chinlon Lin) and Mable Fok (supervised by Chester Shu) won the 2nd runner up best paper award and the best presentation prizes respectively at the 6th IEEE LEOS (Hong Kong) postgraduate conference held at Hong Kong University on 3rd December 2005.
Well done to Owen and Mable!