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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!
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. Ma’s research is in the areas of signal processing, communications, and optimization. His most notable contributions lie in the applications of optimization in these areas; principally to the topics of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver designs and interference management.
The aforementioned paper is a widely recognized overview paper on semidefinite relaxation (SDR), a powerful optimization technique that has numerous applications in signal processing, communications, and beyond. The paper elegantly reviews the topic from theory to practice. It has attracted much interest from various communities, as evidenced by its very large number of citations.
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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