17-11-09
Mr. Lei ZHU, a year 3 Ph.D student, and Professor T.S. Peter YUM won the Best Paper Award given by ACM MSWiM 2009
The paper by Lei Zhu and Prof. T.S. Yum, "The Optimization of Framed Aloha Based RFID Algorithms", won the Best Paper Award at the 12th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems.
In this paper, the authors proposed a new optimization method for the Framed Aloha based RFID anti-collision systems. The optimal anti-collision algorithm and the efficiency bound of the RFID systems were analytically derived and used in different applications.
Please accept our hearty congratulations!
12-10-09
Prof. Jianwei Huang won the Best Paper Award
The paper by Jianwei Huang and Xiwei Huang, "Revenue Mangement for Cognitive Spectrum Underlay Networks: An Interference Elasticity Perspective", won the Best Paper Award at the 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications 2009.
In this paper, the authors proposed a new economic framework for the spectrum owners to share the spectrum and collect maximum revenue in cognitive radio networks. This belongs to the interdisciplinary research area of network economics, with more publications can be found at http://personal.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~jwhuang/publications_area.
9-10-09
The most prestigious 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Professor Charles Kao
Our utmost congratulations to Professor Charles Kao and his family!
We are most delighted to learn that Professor Kao has won the most prestigious 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics. His pioneering discovery in the area of fibre optics has enabled revolutionary improvements in the way in which people communicate far and near. It has transformed the lives of our present as well as future generations.
The Department of Information Engineering admitted the first batch of IE students in 1988, and the Engineering Faculty was officially established in 1991. In view of Professor Kao's great vision and background in communication for the information age, he defined two cornerstones: (1) Engineering Faculty should be high-tech instead of traditional engineering and (2) he encouraged the faculties and students to dream big for leading edge projects to serve the society.
Because of his encouragement, IE Professors helped liaise to set up the first Internet connection in Hong Kong - a 64 kbps link to the NASA Ames Laboratory in U.S. The Chinese University later became the center of HK Internet Exchange (HKIX) - the hub linking all ISPs in Hong Kong. Because of his encourage, the Department successfully awarded two big research fundings on Areas of Excellence in Information Technology and in Networking Coding in 1999 and 2009 respectively.
Since retiring as vice-chancellor, Professor Kao has continued his strong linkage with the Department. He loved to join many of our Department activities and events and gave advices to faculty members and students on research and career development.
We are so proud of you! We believe that Prof. Kao's achievements will continue to inspire our students and people for many decades to come.
29-9-09
Mr. He Kaiming is awarded the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (2009)
Congratulations to Kaiming who has been awarded the Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (2009).
Kaiming is one among the 25 students selected for the fellowship from a pool of 98 distinguished Ph.D. candidates nominated from 45 leading research universities/institutions in the Asia Pacific region. In the eleven years since the MSRA Fellowship Program started, more than two hundred and eighty PhD candidates from fifty universities/institutions have served as fellows. The program has been highly successful in fostering advances and collaboration in computer science and research.
25-9-09
UGC Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme
The Hong Kong University Grants Council (UGC) has recently announced a fellowship scheme to attract the best students from all over the world to pursue their graduate studies in Hong Kong.
We invite highly qualified students to apply for this program. The deadline for application is 1 December 2009. The official website for this program can be found here.
24-9-09
Researchers in department obtain AoE grant
A proposal to establish an institute of network coding at CUHK as an Area of Excellence, headed by Prof. Bob Li and Prof. Raymond Yeung, has secured the prestigious UGC funding with a budget in excess of 100 million HKD.
6-8-09
Prof. Chen Minghua received two best paper awards!!
Congratulations to Prof. Chen Minghua who received two best paper awards
recently. Both of them were announced
on the banquet of ICME 2009 on June 30th, 2009 in New York.
The paper “Multiple TFRC Connections Based Rate Control for Wireless
Networks”, by M. Chen and A. Zakhor, received the IEEE Transactions
on Multimedia 2009 Prize Paper Award. The Multimedia Prize Paper Award
is an annual award for a paper published on IEEE Trans. on Multimedia in
the past two or three years. In the paper, Minghua and Avideh proposed a
simple working solution to the problem of streaming rate control for
video over wireless. Some description of the project is here:
http://home.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~mhchen/projects/ratectrl.wireless.html
The other paper, “Multi-rate Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing: A
Distributed Approach using Scalable Coding”, by M. Ponec, S. Sengupta,
M. Chen, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, received the ICME 2009 best
paper award. The award is presented to one paper out of 323 accepted
papers. Some description of the project is here:
http://home.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~mhchen/projects/p2p.utility.html
Minghua, you have our full support to move upward!
27-5-09
Mr. He Kaiming and Professor Tang Xiaoou, Sean won the Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Kaiming and Prof. Sean Tang!! Their paper by He Kaiming , Sun Jian, Tang Xiaoou, "Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior," won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2009, the top conference of computer vision. This year, there are around 1450 papers submitted to CVPR. 61 papers are accepted for ORAL Presentation (4.1%). 322 papers are accepted for POSTER Presentation (22.1%). One paper is selected as the BEST PAPER.
Since the conference is established in 1985, this is the first time that a paper from Asia won the award. Previous winners are mostly from top schools like Oxford, MIT, Columbia, and CMU. In computer vision research, there is no annual best paper for journals. Best paper in CVPR (and ICCV) is the top annual award. The first author of the paper, He Kaiming is a the second year Ph.D student in IE Department. This is his first paper ever.
4-5-09
Professor Huang Jianwei received the 2009 IEEE Young Researcher Award
Congratulations to Professor Huang Jianwei who has been selected for the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2009.
As quoted from Professor Zhang Qian, Chair of Technical Affairs Committee of IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Region:
""IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award" and "Outstanding Young Researcher Award" are sponsored by IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board (APB). This award honors researchers who have been very active in ComSoc publication and conference activities over the last 2 years. This year, we have received a record-breaking 34 submissions from many countries. A award selection committee has been formed and reviewed all the applications very carefully during the past three months and finally selected six awardees..."
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