Honorary Fellows
Three individuals will be conferred the title of Honorary Fellow at a ceremony in September in recognition of their significant contributions to the development of, and service to, CityU and the community: Mr Chan Yung, a senior registered social worker and Legislative Council member, Mr Dominic Pang Yat-ting, Chairman and Executive Director of Asia Allied Infrastructure Holdings Limited, and Professor Tinly Wong Tin-chee, Executive Director of Wong To Yick Wood Lock Ointment Limited, Founder and Executive Director of Herbalgy Pharmaceutical Limited.
New Faculty Orientation
Faculty members joining CityU at the start of the 2022/23 academic year will gather for a day-long orientation session on 25 August. Professor Freddy Boey, CityU President, will kick off proceedings with some welcoming remarks to be followed by an overview of CityU plus sessions on teaching and learning at CityU, quality assurance, innovation and enterprise, and research and postgraduate studies. The new members of the CityU family will also have a chance to mingle with deans and senior management at an evening reception.
Croucher Summer Course on Neutron Scattering
This intensive course from 6 to 11 August is an introduction to neutron scattering for up-and-coming postgraduate students and early-career researchers. It will present several commonly-used scattering techniques and their applications in physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering, and life sciences. The summer course will end with an optional tour of the China Spallation Neutron Source in Dongguan. More information can be found here.
Kudos
Professor Huang Yu, Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMS), is one of 27 fellows elected to the prestigious International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Academy this year. He is also Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Vascular Biology and the Jeanie Hu Professor of Biomedical Sciences in BMS. IUPS is a collective of national and international organisations representing the diversity and excellence of physiologists worldwide. Professor Huang’s research focuses on elucidating the molecular events in the initiation and progression of endothelial cell dysfunction in hypertension, obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis to uncover novel biomarkers for vascular pathogenesis and develop novel approaches to reversing vascular dysfunction in cardio-metabolic disorders.
Promising young CityU faculty members have published a highly innovative paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s top academic journals. The title of the article is “Directional dipole dice enabled by anisotropic chirality”, and the authors include Professor Alex Wong Man-hon of the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), Professor Lei Dangyuan of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor Wang Shubo of the Department of Physics, and Oyesina Kayode Adedotun, a PhD student in EE. Their paper is significant for achieving directional radiation and scattering of light with minimal optical structures, which is crucial to many applications in nanophotonics and quantum optics.
Two teams have been honoured with Second Class Awards in the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) 2022 in the Natural Science category from the Ministry of Education. This prestigious recognises exceptional achievements in scientific research by individuals and teams in higher education institutions. The award-winning projects are “Theory and Methodology of Magnetically Driven Microrobots for Precise Cell Delivery” led by Professor Sun Dong, Chair Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and “Study of Medium-range Structural Evolution and the Phase Transformation in Metallic Glasses” led by Professor Wang Xunli, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study and Chair Professor in the Department of Physics.
Professor Michael Tse Chi-kong, Associate Vice-President (Innovation) and Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, has received First Place in the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) Prize Paper Award. The winning paper, co-authored with scholars from Southeast University, Nanjing, is titled “A Family of Hybrid IPT Couplers With High Tolerance to Pad Misalignment”. Professor Tse received the Second Prize Paper Award in 2021 for TPEL, one of the most impactful journals in power electronics.