Prof. Wong Ching-ping, Dean, Faculty of Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has been elected a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), in recognition of his remarkable contributions in the field of electronic engineering. The same honour has been bestowed on a few eminent Chinese-American scholars including Pei Ieoh-ming, David Da-i Ho and Yang Tzu-yow.
Professor Wong said, ‘I am greatly honoured to have been elected a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. I am particularly grateful to my research team and working partners over the years for their ongoing support.’
For more details, please refer to the press release at CUHK website: English / Chinese
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Wen Wei Po 20/12/2013

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Congratulations to Prof. S.Y. Wang for his success in obtaining a grant of HK$189,000 from the Development of Assistive Technology for Persons with Disabilities Fund (ATDF) in sponsorship of the project entitled "A Novel Chinese Text Input Brain-Computer Interface for Persons with Neuromuscular Disability".

Prof. J.B Xu has been awarded the distinguished lectureship by Chinese Chemical Society in recognition of his contributions to molecular materials and devices. He was also invited to visit Beijing Institue of Chemistry, CAS, which is currently the best basic research institute of CAS.

Congratulations to Prof. Wang Xiaogang who recently received the Outstanding Young Researcher in Automatic Human Behaviour Analysis AWARD. This award is made annually for early-career (within 2 years of PhD) distinguished research contributions in machine analysis of human behavior.

“A distinguished research contribution in machine analysis of human behaviour” is high-quality original research that has direct implications and contributions to machine analysis of naturally occurring human behavior. All areas of vision-based, audio-based, and multimodal human-human, human-environment, and human-computer interaction will be considered including human affect analysis, social signals and social behaviour analysis, facial expression analysis, body gesture and action analysis, and sign language analysis.

The Award is sponsored by the European Research Council Starting Grant agreement no. ERC-2007-StG-203143 (MAHNOB) and is administered by the Awards Committee of the CVPR4HB Workshop Organization. The Award Winner will be invited to give a KEYNOTE lecture on their work during the CVPR4HB workshop. In 2011, the workshop will take place on June 25, 2011, in Colorado Springs, USA, in conjunction with the annual IEEE Int’l Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition). The recipient will also be invited to contribute an article for publication in the IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING JOURNAL.
For more details about this award, please visit:
http://emotion-research.net/workshops_folder/workshop.2011-05-05.1826529214