New appointments
Professor Chen Guohua will join the School of Energy and Environment as Chair Professor of Smart Energy Conversion and Storage on 1 August 2022 and assume the Deanship on 1 September 2022. Professor Chen, who received his MEng and PhD from McGill University, is a highly experienced researcher and administrator. He has served as Chair Professor of Energy Conversion and Storage in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he was also Vice-President (Research Support). Before joining PolyU, he was Head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research covers the application of electrochemical techniques in energy and environmental protection.
Professor Alfred Ho Tat-kei will serve as the Head of the new Department of Public and International Affairs (PIA) from 1 August 2022. Professor Ho is a leading scholar in public administration, especially in the subfields of performance management and budgeting, e-government, and citizen engagement.
HK Tech Forum
The HK Tech Forum on Reliability and Safety of Intelligent Systems from 20 to 21 August will focus on challenging issues within complex systems that incorporate various kinds of artificial intelligence. Several experts, including a Turing Award recipient and academicians, will talk about aspects of the reliability and safety of intelligent systems. Other invited speakers will include young researchers who will discuss their research findings.
International conference on reliability
Following the HK Tech Forum on Reliability and Safety of Intelligent Systems, the 13th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability, and Safety will be held from 21 to 24 August. The event has been organised by CityU and sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society on reliability, maintainability and safety.
Kudos
CityU has been recognised once again for its commitment to well-being. In recognition of the University’s outstanding achievements in promoting "Healthy Eating", "Physical Activity" and "Mental Well-being", we have received the “Excellence Award” in the “Joyful@Healthy Workplace Best Practices Award” under the “Occupational Health Award 2021-22”. This award is co-organised by the Occupational Safety & Health Council, Labour Department, Department of Health, the Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Board and the Occupational Deafness Compensation Board. It reflects the efforts of the Human Resources Office, Student Development Services and Facilities Management Office in holding health-related events and activities to promote physical and mental wellness such as Green Living @ CityU, Wellness For All, Sports for All, Exercise is Medicine, Mental Health Week, among others.
Professor Michael Tse Chi-kong of the Department of Electrical Engineering has received Second Place in the 2021 IEEE Power Electronics Society Transactions Prize Paper Award. The winning paper, which was co-authored with scholars from the Harbin Institute of Technology, is titled “General pathways to higher order compensation circuits for IPT converters via sensitivity analysis”. Their article was ranked as one of the best of 1,233 papers published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in 2021.
Professor Wang Zuankai, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Chair Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named Senior Research Fellow by the Research Grants Council for 2022/23. In addition, Dr Alicia An Kyoung-jin, Associate Professor in the School of Energy and Environment (SEE), Dr Kannie Chan Wai-yan, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Dr Liu Chunhua, Associate Professor in SEE, have been named Research Fellows. These fellowships recognise the potential impact of the awardees’ proposed research projects. Senior Research Fellows receive a grant worth HK$7.8 million and Research Fellows a grant of HK$5.2 million.
Dr Li Haoliang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2022. The winning paper, co-authored with scholars from Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University, is titled “Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning for Statistical Type Inference”. ACM SIGSOFT ISSTA is one of the top international conferences on how to analyse and test software systems aimed at academics, industrial researchers, and practitioners in the field of operating systems/software engineering/programming languages.
Cheng Cheung-yu, a Year 3 Information Engineering student in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Ms Ruan Yuyan, a 2022 Computer and Data Engineering graduate from EE, and Feng Li from the Department of Computer Science won Second Prize in the Global Final of the Huawei ICT Competition 2021/22 under the Innovation category. The winning project, supervised by Dr Ray Cheung Chak-chung, Associate Professor in EE, is titled “CanSee 2.0: A Convenient, Efficient and Comprehensive Platform for Lung Cancer Diagnosis”. This year the competition attracted 150,000 students from over 2,000 universities and colleges across 85 countries and regions.
Students from the BSc in Creative Media in the School of Creative Media have won Gold and Silver awards in the newly established category "Art-tech" in the Greater Bay Area STEM Excellence Award 2022. Winning Gold were Donald Chow Ka-chun, Angus Chan Ka-yu and Susan Su Hui-shan, and the Silver winners were Joanna Lai Hoi-ting, Bobo Lam Po-yin and Hector Chan Yu-hin.