New appointment
Professor Yue Chee-yoon has been appointed Chair Professor of Materials Engineering and concurrently as Dean of Graduate Studies, effective 1 November 2023. Professor Yue received his BEng and PhD from Monash University. Before joining CityU, he was a Professor and Director, NUS Enterprise at the National University of Singapore. Professor Yue was named among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Clarivate Analytics in 2022 and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore, and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering in Singapore.
France-Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Marc Fontecave of the Collège de France will conduct a lecture on 8 November titled “Necessities and Challenges of the Energetic Transition”. Professor Fontecave will discuss the global energy situation, scenarios for the 2050 trajectories and the scientific and technological challenges we face. For more information, please visit here.
HKIAS Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Jean Salençon, Honorary Professor at École Polytechnique and Senior Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) at CityU, will conduct a lecture titled “1773 About Coulomb’s Seminal Contribution to Soil Mechanics” on 22 November. The focus of the talk will be Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, a French engineer and physicist, whose work significantly contributed to the “yield design” stability analysis in geotechnics and various fields of civil engineering and construction. For more information, please visit here.
Kudos
Professor Max Hattler of the School of Creative Media has won the First Jury Prize at the Punto y Raya Festival in Lisbon with a short film O/S. The Punto y Raya Festival is the world event for Abstract Art in Motion, celebrating the latest achievements in abstract film, animation, and new media.
Gao Shuai, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has won the Outstanding Paper Award at the 18th Chinese National Symposium on radio propagation for a paper titled “A dual-band high-gain shared-aperture antenna”, which was supervised by Professor Steve Wong Hang. Only 10 of the 451 submitted papers received awards at the event, which the Chinese Institute of Electronics organised.
PhD students and postdocs from the Department of Electrical Engineering comprising Chen Chen, Ma Tianlu, Dr Mo Liping, Wang Xiaosheng and Wang Yibo have been awarded the 1st Runner Up and Best Innovation Award in the IET Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition (YPEC) 2023 – Postgraduate Section. The winning project, supervised by Professor Jiang Chaoqiang, is called "High Power Capability and High Power Density Wireless Charging using Nanocrystalline Ribbon Materials". YPEC, organised by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), is a dynamic platform for young professionals from different disciplines to exhibit innovative engineering and technology.
Eklavya Agarwal and Vannes Wijaya, BSc Computer Science students, Abhinav Balasubramanian, BEng in Computer and Data Engineering student, and three students from other local universities teamed up to win J.P. Morgan’s Hackathons: Code for Good 2023, an annual challenge predominantly for undergraduates majoring in Computer Science and Engineering.