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Best Paper Award 2021 from the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Dr Liang Liu received the Best Paper Award 2021 from the IEEE Signal Processing Society for his paper “Massive Connectivity With Massive MIMO—Part I: Device Activity Detection and Channel Estimation” which was published on the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing journal in June 2018. The award honors the authors of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s technical scope, and appearing in one of the Society’s solely owned transactions irrespective of the author’s age. Device activity detection and channel estimation are crucial components for wireless massive connectivity applications. This paper shows that the vector AMP algorithm is a natural tool for sparse activity detection. Utilizing the state evolution analysis, both the missed detection and false alarm probabilities and channel estimation error can be analytically characterized. Further, in the massive MIMO regime, perfect device activity detection can be guaranteed, but channel estimation error remains.

Information Seminar for the MSc in EIE Programme

An Information Seminar for the MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering Programme will be held on 8 January 2022, Sat, at 4 pm – 5 pm, via Zoom at https://polyu.hk/OzQRo. The MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering Programme offers two specialism options including "Internet of Things" & "Multimedia Signal Processing and Communication". Please find more details about the programme below. Programme Leaflet: Download Leaflet Programme Details:  https://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/mscinfo Online Application:  http://www51.polyu.edu.hk/eprospectus/tpg/2022/05002-ni-eit

The EIE Newsletter (2021/22 Semester 1 Issue) is available now

The EIE Newsletter (2021/22 Semester 1 Issue) is available now

TVB episode on fibre optic sensing system in MTR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POcPJfU8VDc

Second Runner-up in the Capture the Flag (CTF) Cybersecurity Competition

Supervised by Dr Haibo Hu and coached by Mr Kong Chun Ho (EIE MPhil student), a PolyU team comprised of Ma Kam Wa (BSc in INS student), Leung Hon Lam (BSc in INS student), Cheng Shiu Wang Ethan (BSc in IMT student) and Sham Wing Chung (COMP student), attained the Second Runner-up in the Capture the Flag (CTF) Cybersecurity Competition which was organized by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in their HackaDay 2021 on 1 December 2021. The competition aims at increasing the general awareness of the importance of cybersecurity among the youths in Hong Kong and Macau. The HackaDay also serves as a platform for the future talents to raise their competency level for a meaningful career in cybersecurity. Around 80 students in 21 teams from Hong Kong and Macau joined this competition which tested their technical knowledge and analytical skills under five hacking challenges.

Grand Prize of the 7th Hong Kong University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

Led by Prof. Gang Li, a team of research staff and student including Liu Kuan, Ren Zhiwei and Zhang Heng Kai, won the Grand Prize (Innovation category) of the 7th Hong Kong University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition! The Competition was held by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association which aims to promote science and innovation education in Hong Kong. The research team attained the First Prize for their project “High Performance Solution-Processed Perovskite Solar Cell Towards Sustainable Development” in the Innovation - Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering category of the Competition in May this year. The winning project was further selected by the judges as the only Grand Prize winner among the 39 awardees in the Innovation category. The team members received the Grand Prize from the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Government, Mrs Carrie Lam, in the Prize Presentation Ceremony on 27 November 2021.

Prof. Gang Li has been named 2022 Optica Fellow by Optica and 2021 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.

We are pleased to share that Prof. Gang Li has been elected a Fellow of the Optica for 2022 for his seminal and sustained contributions to the research and development of organic solar cells and perovskite solar cells! This distinction was awarded by the Optica, formerly known as The Optical Society (OSA), to 106 members from 24 countries, for their significant contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics through education, research, engineering, business and service. It is a distinguished honor as the number of Fellows is limited to no more than 10% of the total Optica membership and the number elected each year is limited to approximately 0.5% of the current membership total.  Also, Prof. Gang Li has been named a Highly Cited Researcher by the Clarivate Analytics for 8 consecutive years since 2014. Prof. Li is acknowledged in the category of cross-field of the Highly Cited Researchers 2021 list recently. The Highly Cited Researchers are the most influential researchers who have published multiple papers frequently cited by their peers that rank in the top 1% of citations for field and year in the Web of Science.  Prof. Li’s research interests are organic semiconductor, and organo-metal halide hybrid perovskite based thin-film optoelectronic devices. He has published more than 160 journal papers including the paper on printed perovskite solar cell on Nature Photonics, and a Nature Communications paper on organic polymer solar cell this year. Congratulations to Prof. Li for his achievement!

Sharing of Alumni’s Achievements in Start-up business in Photonics Technology

第23届中国国际光电博览会（CIOE 2021）9月在深圳国际会展中心隆重开幕，汇聚了超3,000家参展企业，展现了光电技术在F5G、智能汽车、半导体芯片、3D视觉、传感器、智慧安防、AR/VR、机器人等领域的广泛应用。   在展会上，我们见到了Amonics（安力光电）的创始人、理大校友文伟成博士和他的全新产品。Amonics 从香港出发，立足香港、辐射全球，历经数年发展, 目前已成为国际顶尖的集研发生产和销售于一体的光纤放大器、光纤激光器、宽带光源等综合型光电设备制造商，致力于提供高质量的光电仪器和集成解决方案。因其产品具有的高性能、高稳定性优势，在全世界高校科研院所的光电实验室都不乏他们设备的身影，如东日本铁路、日本东电、日本电信电话 NTT、清华、北大、斯坦福、MIT等。随5G时代的到来、中国越来越多的行业（如风电行业、通讯产品测试平台、星载物联网等）都需要有国际竞争力的、自主研发的光电设备。我们欣喜地看到：文博士带来了来自香港的光电力量！ .... View more:https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/-_VKgb3g3D-i8fi36bAfMQ Source: 微信公眾平台(weixin.qq.com) 

1st Runner-Up of the IEEE VIP Cup 2021

Supervised by Prof. Kenneth Lam, four BEng in EIE students, including Chang Chun-tzu, Chi Ziheng, Li Xinyue and Wang Shaozhi, teamed up with other students from the University of Technology Sydney won the First Runner-Up of the Video and Image Processing (VIP) Cup 2021 in the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing on 19 September 2021! The VIP Cup competition is sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. It encourages students to solve real-world problems by using video and image processing methods and techniques. The theme of the VIP Cup is "SLP Human Pose Estimation" this year. Contestants were asked to seek computer vision-based solutions for in-bed pose estimation under the covers. Our winning team presented a multi-level adaptation framework to progressively learn a well-generalized network for cross-domain human pose estimation in this competition. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed framework can effectively generalize the learned knowledge from the uncovered source domain to the covered target domain for in-bed pose estimation.

Paul Baran Young Scholar Award 2021 by The Marconi Society.

We are pleased to share that Dr Shuowen Zhang has been selected as the sole winner for the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award 2021 by The Marconi Society for recognizing her work in intelligent reflecting surface-aided communications, MIMO, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. The Marconi Society was established in 1974 to commemorate the centennial of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi, who was recognized as the father of wireless communication and won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy. The Paul Baran Young Scholar Award honors the world's most innovative young engineers in Information and Communications Technology (ICT).  Presented to researchers who are 27 years old or younger to commemorate Guglielmo Marconi's age when he made his first successful wireless transmission, this award recognizes brilliant young scientists and engineers who are leaders in the fields of advanced communications and information technology. Press Release by The Marconi Society: https://www.marconisociety.org/press/dr-shuowen-zhang-recognized-marconi-society-2021-young-scholar-award/ Award Presentation Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5krZerK-5C8