Dr. YE Lei, an EE PhD alumnus supervised by Prof. Xu Jianbin and currently working as Associate Professor in the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and the School of Optical and Electronic Information at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, has been elected as one of “2021 Top 10 Young Science & Tech Figures in China” (2021年中國十大新銳科技人物).

His research team made a breakthrough in hardware of neuromorphic computing recently.

(Ref: Science publishes the research work of the sensing-storage-computing integration by Miao Xiangshui and Ye Lei's team-Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

The paper “T-CNN: Tubelets With Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection From Videos” of EE PhD alumni Kai Kang supervised by Prof. Xiaogang WANG, Prof. Hongsheng LI has been selected by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society to receive the IEEE CAS Society 2020 Outstanding Young Author Award. The paper was published on IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System for Video Technology (Volume 28, Issue 10, pp. 2896 – 2907) in 2018 and was selected from all papers by junior researchers in IEEE CAS society's transactions.

EE PhD student, SHI Shaoshuai, co-supervised by Prof. WANG Xiaogang and Prof. LI Hongsheng has been awarded 2020 Google PhD Fellowship. 55 recipients in all computer science-related fields are selected globally and Shi Shaoshuai is the only awardee in Hong Kong.

Dr. WANG, Xiaomu obtained PhD degree in the EE department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), advised by Prof. XU, Jianbin in 2012. Recently, he has been awarded “Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award 2019”, by Qiu Shi Science and Technology Foundation, Hong Kong. There are totally 12 laureates of the Young Scholar Award 2019. More details could be found at http://www.qiushi.org/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=lists&catid=185

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