Professor Hon Ki TSANG named 2019 IEEE Fellow

Prof. Hon Ki TSANG, from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for “Contributions to Nonlinear silicon photonics and Advanced Waveguide Grating Couplers”. Prof Tsang has made fundamental contributions to advance the scientific understanding and the technology of silicon photonics. Silicon photonics is emerging as the main technology platform for high capacity optical interconnects in Data Centers, and enables the continued growth of internet data traffic in the era of Big Data, and the rise of the global internet economy.

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

Professor Hon Ki Tsang is recognized for his pioneering scientific contributions in the field of nonlinear silicon photonics. In 2000-2005 he carried out the first experimental investigations of nonlinear optical effects in silicon optical waveguides and published some of the first scientific papers describing two photon absorption, free carrier absorption, self-phase modulation, stimulated Raman amplification and four wave mixing in silicon waveguides. The award also recognizes Prof Tsang’s contributions in Advanced Waveguide Grating Couplers which enable efficient coupling of light to the sub-micron sized silicon waveguides from optical fibers.

Prof. Hon Ki TSANG received the Bachelors of Arts (Honours) from University of Cambridge in 1987 and PhD from University of Cambridge in 1991. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993. He received the Vice-Chancellor’s Outstanding Researcher Award for his work on nonlinear silicon photonics in 2007, and became an Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering in 2017. He is also a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) and a recipient of the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (second class) in Natural Sciences from Ministry of Education of China in 2014. He is a Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Prof. XU, Jianbin from the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has been elevated to Fellow Grade of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2018. He is being recognized for his contributions to nanoscale electronic materials and devices.

The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one-percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is highly recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.

Prof. Xu is well known for his significant contributions to nanoscale characterization and nanomaterials, and more recently, nanoscale devices. In span of his entire research career he has been engaged in a number of challenging issues, namely exploring the heat transfer across a vacuum and an air gap down to submicron range which has significant implications on heat transfer in electron devices; finding the monoatomic step resolution by commercially-available atomic force microscopy (AFM) which opens up the field of AFM-based crystallography and AFM metrology, resulting in AFM being a routing characterization technique for surface inspection and precision engineering of a variety of disparate samples in academia and industry; understanding the electronic properties of ultrathin gate oxides for MOS transistors which are building blocks of the contemporary information and communications technology (ICT); developing an interface engineering strategy for graphene and two-dimensional semiconductors as well as organic semiconductors which hold a great potential for flexible electronics; just to name a few. The core of these apparently dissimilar developments is nanoscale adventure. This provides us with enormous unprecedented opportunities, as predicted by Prof. Richard P. Feynman — Nobel Laureate in 1965, saying that “There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom” in 1959.

Prof. Xu’s contributions have high impacts in nanotechnology and electron devices. He has published c.a. 400 peer-reviewed technical papers. He has over 7450 citations in Google Scholar, c.a. 5700 peer citations in Web of Science, as well as a myriad of citations by technical reviews, monographs, handbooks, and patents; among which 8 papers are classified as Highly-Cited Papers by Essential Science Indicators (the top 1% of the academic field of science and engineering). He has received twice the prestigious Young Distinguished Scholar Award (Overseas Chinese) by National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and is a recipient of Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professor by Ministry of Education (MoE) in 2014, a recipient of Research Excellence Award and Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Fellow by CUHK. Meanwhile he is a prolific mentor: More than fifteen of his former students/postdocs now become faculty members or senior scientific officers in the mainland major universities and Hong Kong; One is currently Senior Technical Manager at Harvard University; One received the runner-up recognition of the Hong Kong Young Scientist Awards, a prestigious recognition among the tertiary institutions, and the Best PhD Thesis Award by Faculty of Engineering, CUHK. Four former team members have been selected as recipients of “National Thousand Youth Talents Program” (青年千人計劃), a nationwide highly competitive recruitment program.

Prof. K.K. Cheng Michael has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2017.

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Congratulations!

Congratulations to Prof. Ching for being awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star (SBS) by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administration Region for his long and distinguished public and community service, particularly in his capacity as Chairman of the Veterinary Surgeons Board of Hong Kong. He has made exemplary efforts in the legislative amendment exercise of the Veterinary Surgeons Registration Ordinance (Cap. 529). He has also made immense contributions to the furtherance of the mission of the Veterinary Surgeons Board in safeguarding the health and welfare of animals and the interests of animal owners.

Prof. Ching joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, CUHK in 1984 and he is currently Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering. He was Department Chairman from 1995 to 1997, Dean of Engineering from 1997 to 2003 and Head of Shaw College from 2004 to 2008. He became Director of the Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering in 2004. From 2006 to end of 2014, Prof Ching was appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President of CUHK. During 2013 and 2014, Prof. Ching also took up the Directorship of the CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute.

Prof. Ching is very active in promoting professional activities, both in Hong Kong and overseas. He was a council member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), past chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Section, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 1997 to 2000 and IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2001 to 2003. He was also a member of the Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 1996 to 2004. He was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the HKIE Transactions between 2001 and 2004. He has been an Honorary Member of the editorial committee for Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing since 2000. Prof. Ching has been instrumental in organizing many international conferences in Hong Kong including the 1997 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems where he was the Vice-Chairman. He also served as Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2003 and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Prof Ching was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Award in 2000 and the HKIE Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2010, he was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the HKSAR Government.

Details please refer to the press releases: http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201706/30/P2017062900879.htm and Prof. Ching's profile http://www.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/~pcching/.