President’s Lecture Series
New types of behavioural addiction problems related to our reliance on widespread digital technology usage are regarded as mental health disorders. Scientists across multiple fields are debating how we should classify and treat compulsive behavioural phenomena related to social networks, online shopping, and smart phone addiction. This talk by Professor Matthew Lee Kwok-on, Chair Professor of Information Systems and Electronic Commerce and Vice-President (Development & External Relations), will review recent research into cyber behavioural addiction and highlight specific challenges and opportunities for future breakthroughs. The title of the talk is “Why are we so addicted to cyber worlds? From Tamagotchi to metaverse” and it will be held online on 27 January as part of the President’s Lecture Series: Excellence in Academia.
Kudos
Professor Stephen Shum Wan-hang of the Department of Management Sciences and his co-authors received the Best Paper Award at the Decision Sciences Institute 2021 Annual Conference with the paper “Consumer Inter-Product Showrooming and Information Service Provision in an Omni-Channel Supply Chain”. The article was published in October 2020 in the Decision Sciences Journal.
Dr Dai Xin, a PhD alumnus who graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) in October 2021, has won prizes at two recent conferences. He won the Best Student Paper Award for his paper “A Wideband Folded Reconfigurable Transmitarray” at the 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Electromagnetics: Applications and Student Innovation Competition; and the Best Paper Prize for the paper “A New Method for Side Lobe Suppression is Coined” at the 2021 Cross Strait Radio Science and Wireless Technology Conference. Professor Luk Kwai-man of EE was his supervisor during his studies in EE.
Professor Che Wenquan, a 2004 PhD graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), has been elected IEEE Fellow for her contributions to planar transmission line structures for microwave passive components. During her studies in EE, Professor Che specialised in microwave nonreciprocal latching ferrite devices under the supervision of Professor Edward Yung Kai-ning, Emeritus Professor of EE. Professor Che is now Professor in the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangdong. Her current research interests include microwave antenna technology and medical application of microwave technology.
Professor Zhang Xiuyin, a 2009 PhD graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), has been elected IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the design of filtering antennas. Professor Zhang is Vice-Dean of the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangdong, focusing on research in antennas and arrays, MMIC, and microwave/terahertz circuits. He was supervised by Professor Xue Quan during his studies in EE into novel RF resonators and bandpass filters.
Leung Ho-kei, a Year 1 student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, joined an international team to win the Silver Award in the Hong Kong Cyber Security New Generation Capture the Flag (CTF) Challenge 2021 (Open Category). The contest was organised by the Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre and the Hong Kong Productivity Council. The aim is to strengthen cybersecurity skills and encourage problem-solving through teamwork and creative thinking.
CityU has won the Safety Performance Award (Outstanding) in the 20th Hong Kong Occupational Safety & Health Award organised by the Occupational Safety and Health Council. This is the second year in a row that CityU has won the award. The Hong Kong Occupational Safety and Health Award recognises organisations with outstanding achievements in the field of occupational safety and health.