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Best Student Paper Award in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Dr Liang Liu and his collaborators in the Chinese Academy of Sciences won the Best Student Paper Award in the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) for their paper “Efficiently and Globally Solving Joint Beamforming and Compression Problem in the Cooperative Cellular Network Via Lagrangian Duality". ICASSP is the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s flagship conference on signal processing and its applications. Dr Liu’s research team considers the joint beamforming and quantization problem in the cooperative cellular network, where multiple relay-like base stations connected to the central processor via rate-limited fronthaul links cooperatively serve the users. In this paper, they first show that there is no duality gap between the considered problem and its Lagrangian dual by showing the tightness of the semidefinite relaxation (SDR) of the considered problem. Then they propose an efficient algorithm based on Lagrangian duality for solving the considered problem. The proposed algorithm is highly efficient and is guaranteed to find the global solution of the problem.

Champion of the Tertiary Education Category in the Hong Kong Electronics Project Competition 2022

Supervised by Dr Ivan Ho, our MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering Programme student, Guo Jingtao, obtained the Champion of the Tertiary Education Category in the Hong Kong Electronics Project Competition 2022! The competition was organized by the Electronics Division of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) with the theme of “Advancing Innovation and Technology in New Normal Smart City” this year. It aims to uplift the awareness and knowledge of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in Hong Kong, and to nurture engineers to apply innovative IoT technologies to improve the quality of life. The winning project “Channel State Information (CSI) based Self-quarantine Monitoring System” proposed a system to monitor people under self-quarantine using wireless sensing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. The system is user-friendly and privacy-preserving without the use of any wearable devices. The prize presentation ceremony was held in the Hong Kong Electronics Symposium 2022 on 25 July 2022.

Prof. Gang Li awarded RGC Senior Research Fellow 2022/23

The University has been awarded three of the ten grants under the Research Grants Council's (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) 2022/23. The SRFS aims to provide sustained support to exceptionally outstanding researchers at UGC-funded universities in Hong Kong to facilitate their dedication to research and development. Prof. Gang Li is one of the PolyU outstanding scholars who is conferred the title of RGC Senior Research Fellow and will receive HKD 7.7 million SRFS funding for his research project “Printable Organic Solar Cells: Materials and Device Investigations towards Applications”. Organic solar cell (OSC) is an emerging photovoltaic (PV) technology with distinct advantages in many areas, such as flexible/portable PV, building integrated PV and transparent power applications. Aiming at accelerating the OSC technology, Prof. Li proposed a systematic plan to tackle the challenges in OSC. The project will significantly push forward OSC technology in terms of high efficiency, stability, compatibility with unique applications and being printing friendly. The proposed research represents a new frontier for OSC technology, which integrates chemistry, physics and material science to generate new perspectives in science and come up with solutions to challenging issues in renewable energy.

Dr Pauli Lai and Dr Haibo Hu won the Faculty Awards for Outstanding Achievement 2022

We are pleased to share that Dr Pauli Lai and Dr Haibo Hu won the 2022 Faculty Individual Merit Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, and Research and Scholarly Activities (Outstanding Researcher) respectively! The winners are chosen by the Faculty Assessment Panel, comprising Heads and chaired by the Dean of Faculty Engineering, from amongst a pool of well-qualified nominees put forward by individual departments. The selection is made with reference to the indicative criteria for assessment as laid down by the University to recognize the awardees for their outstanding performances in the related areas. Congratulations to Dr Lai and Dr Hu for their achievements!

1st Runner Up in Cybersecurity Purple Team Competition 2022

Led by Dr Haibo Hu, our Capture The Flag (CTF) team won the 1st Runner Up in the Cybersecurity Purple Team Competition 2022! The competition was organized by the Cybersecurity Centre of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education. It aims to arouse the interest of the public in cybersecurity and nurture talents for the industry. The team members, including Cheng Shiu Wang Ethan (BSc in IMT student), Leung Hon Lam (BSc in INS student), Ng Cheuk Wing (BSc in INS student) and Sham Wing Chung (COMP student), participated in the trainings provided by the Cybersecurity Centre in May, and the competitions on 14 and 28 May 2022 to compete with other contestants from different institutions on the challenges which were integrated with the red, blue and purple teams’ security elements.

The EIE Newsletter (2021/22 Semester 2 Issue) is available now

The EIE Newsletter (2021/22 Semester 2 Issue) is available now

Winning in Global Social Innovation Summit 2022

Our BEng in EIE student, Rizalino Antonio LABOS, won the Champion in the Accenture Case in the Global Social Innovation Summit 2022 between 18 and 19 June 2022 together with three teammates from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The Summit was organized by the Enactus Hong Kong to inspire university students to explore issues related to the green economy and promote the concepts of social innovation. The contestants were required to solve real-life cases from international corporations and social businesses. The winning team proposed to develop a VR experience and reward tracking app that could encourage the Accenture employees to adopt a sustainable lifestyle.  

The Champion of IET ROV Design Competition 2022 - Engineering & Entrepreneurship Club members

Congratulations to the Engineering & Entrepreneurship Club members on winning the championship of the Hong Kong Regional Underwater Robot Challenge 2022 Design Competition (Explorer Class)! Due to COVID-19, the competition was held online. In this competition, the team designed an underwater robot that can achieve various tasks related to the sustainable development of ocean science. The team members presented different features of the underwater ROV and answered questions from the judging panel. The whole process was very exciting. In the meantime, it was also challenging. This is because most of the team members do not possess sufficient hands-on experience in underwater robot design, whilst they needed to complete the job in a concise time frame. However, they could still demonstrate their commitment and interest in working and improving their design continuously. We really appreciate the team’s efforts. Their hard work led to this great accomplishment. We are very proud to know a professional competition recognizing the team members’ design, efforts, knowledge, and skill. We congratulate the team and all its members for earning such high honours.

EIE student swept three prizes in the Learning to Learn (L2L) Video Contest

Our BSc in Internet and Multimedia Technologies programme student, Lee Ka Yin, swept three prizes including the Best Video Award (Silver), the Best Interpretation Award and the Best Message Delivery Award, for his video entitled “Wasted 4 years in filmmaking, here’s what I learnt”  on sharing his film production learning experience in the Learning to Learn (L2L) Video Contest! The Contest was organized by the Educational Development Centre and the Communities of Practice of PolyU from March to May 2022. It invited students and teachers to create short videos to share their insights and discoveries with a view to helping others to become better learners.

PolyU Faculty Seminar Series: Faculty of Engineering

Date: 16 May 2022 Time: 7:30 - 9:00pm Link: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/geo/prospective-students/undergraduate/local/faculty-seminar-series/