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Prof. MENG, Max Qing Hu of the Faculty of Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) for his notable achievements in Engineering. This year, a total of 52 new international fellows were inducted, and Professor MENG was one of the only two fellows from Hong Kong.
Professor MENG is an international leader in robotics, well known for proposing the world’s first practically-implementable stable adaptive control algorithms for multi-joint industrial robot manipulators, creating the world’s first robotic prosthetic eye, developing the most advanced robotic wireless capsule endoscopy with automatic diagnosis for disease in the gastrointestinal tract, and inventing the world’s first occlusion-free dynamic multi-camera navigation system for surgical robots. He has made impressive contributions to the Canadian industrial and military sectors through successful collaborative projects and the training of highly qualified engineers.
Professor MENG is currently the Chairman of the Department of Electronic Engineering. He was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2008 for his contributions to medical robotics. His research group is among the first in the research and development of active wireless capsule endoscopy and the related image-based automatic diagnosis.
About the Canadian Academy of Engineering
The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) is the national institution through which Canada's most distinguished and experienced engineers provide strategic advice on matters of critical importance to Canada. The CAE is an independent, self-governing and non-profit organization established in 1987. Members of the CAE are nominated and elected by their peers to honorary fellowships, in view of their distinguished achievements and career-long service to the engineering profession. It comprises a small number of distinguished engineers from all disciplines, who have undertaken to serve the country and the profession in matters of broad concern.
Prof. Wing-Kin Ma from the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2017. He is being recognized for his contributions to optimization in signal processing and communications.
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
Prof. Ma is well recognized for his fundamental contributions to signal processing, communications, and more recently, remote sensing. In his research career he has tackled a number of key problems, such as developing high-performance detection solutions for multi-in multi-out (MIMO) communications; interference management and resource optimization in a complex mobile network; matrix factorization techniques that can be used to separate different parts of tissues in a biomedical image, or to tell which materials a remote sensing picture contains under hyperspectral imaging technology; to name a few. At the heart of these seemingly different developments is optimization—think of real-life problems such as finance and logistics management, which optimization can solve, and give the best answer, for us. Prof. Ma contributed very significantly to the use of optimization in engineering problems, enhancing system performance and providing innovative new solutions. In some cases he even contributed to the more mathematical side of optimization by taking insight from applications to solve previously unanswered questions in theory.
Prof. Ma’s work is highly influential. He has about 6700 citations in Google Scholar, about 3200 citations in Web of Science, and 8 papers that have been listed as Highly-Cited Papers by Essential Science Indicators (the top 1% of the academic field of engineering, simply speaking). He received the very prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award in 2015 and IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award in 2016. He is also a great mentor: Two of his students received best paper awards in ICASSP, the top conference in signal processing. One student received Postgraduate Research Output Award by CUHK. One co-supervised student is now a faculty member in CUHK-Shenzhen and is in the very competitive program of “1000 Talents Program for Young Professionals” (青年千人計劃).
The project “Wearable Exoskeleton Robot for Walking” from Professor Raymond Kai-yu Tong (Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong) won a Gold medal with the congratulations of the jury (which is the highest category in the gold medal) at the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, which ran from 13 to 17 April 2016 and attracted a total of 695 exhibitors from 40 countries with 1,000 inventions.
To know more, please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXSFoRNQ2JI
Prof. WANG Xiaogang has been awarded an honorable mention for 2016 PAMI Young Researcher Award (YRA). This award is administered by PAMI and all the computer vision researchers who got their PhDs within 7 years are eligible to compete.
The committee unanimously felt that Prof. Wang merited an exception, which they never had honorable mention before. The honorable mention was announced at the awards ceremony on 27 June 2016 at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Las Vegas.
Congratulations to Prof. WANG!
Prof. Jonathan Choi Chung-hang from the Department of Electronic Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) received a Croucher Innovation Award 2016 in the amount of HK$ 5 million. He is the first ever recipient from CUHK since the inauguration of this award by the Croucher Foundation in 2012.
Prof. Choi’s research interests lie in drug delivery, molecular diagnostics, “bio-nano” interactions, bionanomaterials, and biological imaging. Earlier this year, Prof. Choi co-invented a nanoparticle-based probe for detecting specific microRNA markers in living stem cells and published the findings in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. With this award, he will continue to engineer novel nanoparticle-based approaches for delivering drug molecules to challenging destinations inside the body. Specifically, he is working with CUHK physicians to build nanoparticles for tackling atherosclerosis and renal fibrosis.
About The Croucher Innovation Awards
The Croucher Innovation Awards aim to identify a small number of exceptionally talented scientists from all countries working at an internationally competitive level and to offer substantial support to these “rising stars” at a formative stage in their careers. This scheme is designed to enable recipients to pursue their own scientific, intellectual and professional inclinations, to advance their expertise, to engage in bold new work, and to contribute to the development of education and research in Hong Kong.
CUHK Faculty of Engineering press release: http://www.erg.cuhk.edu.hk/erg/node/735
CUHK Communications and Public Relations press release: http://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press_detail.php?id=2233
CUHK eMotion published the award news of Prof. Jonathan Choi, please click: http://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/emotion/2016/6/indexe.html#a3
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