Prof. WANG, Xiao Gang 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 project “Wearable Exoskeleton Robot for Walking” from Prof. TONG, Raymond KAI Yu (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.
Prof. CHOI, Jonathan 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.