Prof. King Ngi Ngan has been appointed as a Consultant Professor by the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). On 20 February, a delegation of seven professors from our department visited the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (電信系), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (華中科技大學). Prof. Ngan King Ngi gave a seminar on "Video Segmentation Rate Control and Error Resilient Coding for MPEG-4". Prof. Tan Lee, Prof. Y.T. Zhang, Prof. K.L. Wu, Prof. Max Meng, Prof. K.T. Chan and Prof. J.B. Xu also introduced the research activities at different laboratories of our department.

After the seminar, Professor Fan Mingwu, President of HUST, presented the certificate to appoint Prof. Ngan as a Consultant Professor (顧問教授) of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology.