President’s Lecture Series: Excellence in Academia
This talk on 7 October is about bubbles, a peculiar pocket of gases penetrating our daily life, from bathing to drinking. The speaker, Professor Pan Chin, Head and Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, will discuss the science behind animals employing bubbles for survival and how the bubbles created when waves break at sea may have a crucial effect on the absorption of carbon dioxide and sustainability. For more information, please click here.
Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study Distinguished Lecture Series
President Way Kuo of CityU gave a talk titled “Data-Driven Global Pandemic Management” on 30 September as part of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) Distinguished Lecture Series. The talk focused on how the early simulation of possible scenarios during a crisis like Covid-19 can reduce global losses in terms of public health and the economy.
Professor Lu Jian, Vice-President (Research and Technology), gave a talk titled “Progress in Additive Manufacturing: From 2D Printing to 4D Printing of Structural Materials and Functional Devices” on 6 October. The talk explored how to solve the problem of applying nanostructured ceramic materials with complex shapes in the rapidly growing field of additive manufacturing, including areas of 4D printing.
Kudos
Tan Xin, a PhD student, together with his supervisor Dr Rynson Lau Wing-hung, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, received the Best Student Paper Runner Up Award for their co-authored paper titled “Weakly-supervised Salient Instance Detection” in the 31st British Machine Vision Virtual Conference (BMVC2020) in September 2020.
Students from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Department of Biomedical Science, School of Data Science and Department of Economics and Finance won the Best Fintech Award at the International Blockchain Olympiad 2020. The winning team, supervised by Dr Ray Cheung Chak-chung, Associate Professor in EE, and Dr Alan Yeung Kai-hau, Associate Professor in EE, developed a project that aims to nurture the existing microcredit industry by utilising indigenous machine-learning algorithms and the disruptive attributes of blockchains.
EE student Ruan Yuyan recently won the IET Prize 2020 organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). IET Prizes recognise students who have achieved excellence at selected programmes within the IET’s scope of interest. Ruan Yuyan was nominated for the prize based on her excellent academic performance and her enthusiastic participation in numerous co-/extra-curricular activities.
PhD students Agadagba Stephen Kugbere and Eldaly Abdelrahman Bakr Mohammed Abdelnaby won Second Prize in the IEEE EMBS Hong Kong–Macau Joint Chapter Student Paper Competition 2020. The winning paper, supervised by Dr Leanne Chan Lai-hang, Associate Professor in EE, was titled “Electrical Stimulation Enhances and Maintains Theta-Gamma Modulation in Retinal Degeneration Mice”.
Mr Chen Weijing, a 2019 graduate on the MSc Computer Science programme in the Department of Computer Science (CS) together with his supervisor Dr Song Linqi, Assistant Professor in CS, and a professor from Tianjin University received the Best Paper Award for their co-authored paper “Enhancing Deep Multimedia Recommendations Using Graph Embeddings” at the IEEE 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval 2020 in August 2020.