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  • IE MPhil alumnus Xingqin Lin received the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize for the paper cited: X. Lin et al., “The Sky Is Not the Limit: LTE for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 204-210, April 2018. The IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, established in 1994,……

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  • We were excited to know Prof. Soung-chang Liew was elected as Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Services (HKAES) in 2020. The HKAES Fellowship is a recognition of his distinguished achievements in serving Hong Kong with top quality engineering expertise. Congratulations to Prof. Liew on this very deserving honor!

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  • All of us in the Department of Information Engineering have learned with sorrow that our respected and beloved Professor Omar Wing has left us. Professor Wing was the founding Dean of our Engineering Faculty. He was Professor Emeritus of Information Engineering, serving at the Faculty from 1991 to 1998 and was the IE Department Chairman……

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  • We are delighted to know Xingqin Lin, IE MPhil alumnus in 2011, won the IEEE COMSOC Best YP Award 2020. Xingqin is currently a Master Researcher, Team Leader, and Standardization Delegate at Ericsson Research Silicon Valley, leading 5G/6G research and standardization in the areas of non-terrestrial communications and networking (satellites/HAPS/airplanes/drones). He is a member of the Ericsson……

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  • We are delighted to announce that Prof. Pascal O. Vontobel has been elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2021 class with the citation “for contributions to graphical models for channel coding”. It is a great honor and prestigious recognition of his research achievements and contributions. Congratulations to Prof. Vontobel! Please check the following link for a……

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