EIE Outstanding Alumni Award

The Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, formerly known as the Department of Electronic Engineering, was established in 1974. Since then, the Department pursues a wide range of teaching and research activities in numerous fields of electronic and information engineering. We nurture generations of graduates who devote their time and effort for the betterment of society. To recognize outstanding graduates of EIE for their professional, entrepreneurial and scholarly achievements, as well as their contributions to the community, the Department is inviting nominations for the Outstanding Alumni Award of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering for 2023.

Eligibility

The candidate must be a graduate who has successfully completed full-time or part-time programme offered by the Department of Electronic Engineering (ENC) / Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE), PolyU (or its forerunners: Hong Kong Government Trade School, Hong Kong Technical College, and Hong Kong Polytechnic) which led to academic award accredited by the respective Institution.

Nomination

The proposer can be PolyU graduates, Honorary Graduates, University Fellows, PolyU staff, current PolyU Council and Court members and current Advisory Committee members.
Proposers should have obtained nominees’ consent before submitting the nominations.
There is no limit to the number of nominations to be submitted by each proposer.However, the proposer cannot be the candidate himself/ herself or a direct relative of the candidate.
The proposer can submit the nomination form to EIE via email at eie.oaa@polyu.edu.hk by 17 March 2023. The nomination form is available at https://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/eieoaa.
The awardees may further be nominated for the Outstanding Alumni Award of PolyU Faculty of Engineering .

Schedule

17 March 2023	Deadline for receiving nominations
April 2023	Review of the nominations by the selection panel
May 2023	Announcement of results
November 2023	Award Presentation Ceremony

Selection Criteria

Selection should be made based on the nominee’s contributions in the following four categories:

Professional Achievement 專業成就 – this category recognizes alumni who have attained distinguished achievements, demonstrated exemplary leadership and made a strong impact on their profession / industry / society.
- Accomplishments and reputation in the profession/ industry/ civil service
- Innovation and impact on the profession/ industry/ society
- Recognition and awards received from the profession/ industry/ public
Entrepreneurial Achievement 創業/工商業成就 – this category recognizes alumni who have demonstrated outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as founded or advanced business or technology ventures with impact.
- Nature, size and development of the business or technology venture/ enterprise
- Innovation and impact of the venture/ enterprise
- Recognition and awards received from the industry/ community
Scholarly Achievement 學術成就 – this category recognizes alumni scholars who have made notable scholarly or research contributions in their disciplines, with proven track record and excellent reputation in the field.
- Scholarly and research achievements with an emphasis on impact
- Reputation and leadership in the field
- Scholarly/ research recognition and awards
Community Service Achievement 社會服務成就 – this category recognizes alumni who have made impactful contributions to the communities, or demonstrated an extraordinary level of commitment, volunteerism and/or philanthropy for promoting the wellbeing of the communities.
- Commitment and contribution to community services or voluntary/ philanthropic services
- Leadership and impact of community service for social good
- Recognition and awards received from communities served

In addition to the above criteria for the respective award categories, “Support and Contribution to PolyU/EIE” is one of the key nomination and selection criteria at all levels.

To recognize young alumni as well as alumni of more senior years, there will be two streams of awards, namely “Outstanding Young Alumni Award of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering” (for those aged 40 or under) and “Outstanding Alumni Award of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering” (for those aged above 40).

Selection Panel

The selection panel will be formed by Departmental Advisory Committee members and EIE staff.

Enquiry

Contact : Ms Carol Yuen / Miss Polly Mok / Miss Kathy Lam
Telephone : 2766 4184 / 2766 6212 / 2766 6227
Email : eie.oaa@polyu.edu.hk

Poster

Please click here to download the poster of the award.

Outstanding Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering

Mr LAM Wing Chap, Peter
Higher Diploma in Electronic Engineering 1982

Mr Lam Wing Chap joined the Hong Kong Telephone Company in 1973. With 48 years of service with the company, he had held senior positions in engineering, sales, marketing and wholesale business. Before his retirement from the company in May 2021, he was the Managing Director, Engineering of HKT Limited. He was primarily responsible for the planning and operation of the fixed and wireless networks, and supported a wide range of quadruple-play telecommunications services including voice, data, broadband, interactive multimedia, mobile and ICT projects in Hong Kong and overseas.

Mr Lam graduated with a Higher Diploma in Electronic Engineering in 1982 from the Hong Kong Polytechnic. He earned a Diploma in Management for Executive Development in 1991 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and joined the Cable & Wireless International Executive Development Program at INSEAD, France in 1997.

Mr Lam was the Chairman of the Joint Utilities Policy Group (JUPG) (2012-2015), the Vice Chairman of Communications Association of Hong Kong (2018-2022), a member of Departmental Advisory Committee of Department of Computing, PolyU (2014-2018), a member of Departmental Advisory Committee of Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU (2018-2019) and the Chairman of Departmental Advisory Committee of Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU (2019-2021).

Mr Lam is now serving Huawei as a Principal Consultant at headquarter.

Outstanding Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering

Dr MUNG Wai Yin, Steve
Higher Diploma in Electronic and Information Engineering 2003

After graduation from the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Dr Mung Wai Yin received the BSc degree in Applied Physics with first class honours from the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and finally received the PhD degrees from CityU in 2012. With more than 15 years of industrial experience and operations in the design and manufacturing of electronic products, Dr Mung is now working in Sana Semiconductors Limited. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of EIE and the co-founder and company representative of the PolyU-Innovation Technology (HK) Audio and Speech Signal Processing Joint Laboratory.

Dr Mung has published and invented more than 100 journals, conference papers, China/US patents related to wireless/speech/audio technologies. He raised around HKD 20M of funding in PolyU and company since 2019. Dr Mung serves as a reviewer for several IEEE journals and committee member in the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc), Audio/Video Systems and Signal Processing Technical Committee (AVS TC), and Instrument Science and Technology Group Committee in Institute of Physics (IOP). He is also a member of reviewing board in the MTT-Sat Challenge. He is Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInsP), Fellow of Institute of Science and Technology (FIScT), Senior Member of IEEE, and Chartered Scientist (Science Council, UK).

Outstanding Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering

Dr YIU Hing Leung
Master of Science in Electronic Engineering 1996
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electronic Engineering 1990

Dr Yiu Hing Leung, Head of Re-industrialisation Division at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), spearheads the key infrastructures and initiatives in driving re-industrialisation at HKSTP. By providing the state-of-the-art and purpose-designed facilities with special provisions, Dr Yiu fosters advanced industries and smart production in INNOPARK in Tai Po, Yuen Long and Tseung Kwan O with an ultimate goal to revitalise them to be the base of advanced manufacturing. He strongly believes that re-industrialisation can further elevate the "Made in Hong Kong" label as both an internationally recognized brand and a source of local pride.

Before heading re-industrialisation, Dr Yiu was the lead in the Electronics, Materials, Precision Engineering Clusters and managed over 300 companies of this domain in HKSTP. Leveraging his business development experience and technical expertise in semiconductors and integrated circuit, electronics, information technology, telecommunications and computing, Dr Yiu secured a few key tenants, and drove key initiatives under the Robotics Platform including Robotics Alliance and Robotics Conference.

Prior to HKSTP, Dr Yiu assumed the role of senior executive in both start-up and MNC. Working in Motorola Semiconductor for over 15 years, Dr Yiu was the General Manager Asia, Networking and Computing Group before he left. Being the brain of the famous DragonBall microprocessor, Dr Yiu was one of the key inventors of this successful project which does not only contribute to the development of the personal digital assistant / handheld computers today, but also proves him a visionary leader and an innovator with eight patents.

Graduated with Bachelor and Master of Electronic Engineering as well as the Doctor of Business Administration degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Dr Yiu continued his education in Executive MBA, Finance and Juris Doctor from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and an Executive Committee Member of Hong Kong Automation Technology Council and Hong Kong Electronics Industry Council of the FHKI.

Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Professional Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering

Dr CHU Kai Fung
Master of Science in Electronic and Information Engineering 2016
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electronic and Information Engineering 2013

Dr Chu Kai Fung received the PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2020, and the MSc and BEng (First Class Honours) degrees both in Electronic and Information Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2016 and 2013 respectively. He is a Research Fellow in the School of Aerospace at the Cranfield University. He published over ten papers to top-tier journals and conferences with over one hundred and thirty citations. He won several awards and scholarships, including Champion of IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter Graduate Student Paper Competition, Second Runner-up of HKUEAA Enginnovate, EIE Scholarships for Postgraduate Scheme in Engineering, EIE Alumni Scholarship, Chiap Hua Cheng’s Foundation Scholarship, Dean’s Honours List, and several best GPA awards. Besides his academic background, he was a Senior Research Engineer and Project Engineer in the industry in 2020-2022 and 2013-2016. He co-founded a technology startup company, and his project is funded by HKSTP Ideation and PolyU Micro Fund. His research interests include artificial intelligence, intelligent transportation systems, autonomous vehicles and adversarial machine learning.

Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Community Service Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering

Mr TSE Siu Kei, Dominic
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electronic and Information Engineering 2010

Mr Tse Siu Kei graduated from the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering in 2010. In 2016, he obtained Master of Science in Technology Management in PolyU. Mr Tse is well-accomplished in Information Technology and worked in various well known banks as well as virtual banks in Hong Kong. He is now working as Assistant Vice President of Infrastructure Platform Services at United Overseas Bank.

Mr Tse has been actively involved in student and alumni activities in PolyU and Hong Kong Community College of PolyU. He is currently the Chairman of Alumni Associate of Electronic and Information Engineering (AAEIE) and the Honorable Advisor of Hong Kong Community College Alumni Associate (HKCCAA). Mr Tse also contributed to PolyU at university level. He was the Director of the Federation of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Alumni Associations (FHKPUAA) for over 10 years. In 2021, he was elected as the 1st Vice President of FHKPUAA.

Outstanding Young Alumni Award in Scholarly Achievement of PolyU Department of Electronic and Information Engineering

Dr WAN Shibiao
Doctor of Philosophy 2014

Dr Wan Shibiao is an Assistant Professor of the University of Nabraska Medical Center. Dr Wan obtained his PhD degree from PolyU in 2014 under the supervision of Prof. Man-Wai Mak. Dr Wan received his postdoctoral training from University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University during 2016-2019. Before joining the University of Nabraska Medical Center, Dr Wan was a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the top pediatric cancer hospitals in the US. With more than 10 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr Wan has published more than 40 articles in prestigious journals like Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr Wan is an academic editor for BioMed Research International and a guest associate editor for a series of high-impact journals including Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Biology, and Frontiers in Genetics. He is a TPC member for more than 20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI, IEEE IAICT, IEEE IoTaIS, and IEEE SOFTT. Dr Wan is also a reviewer for around 50 prestigious journals including IEEE TNNLS, Nucleic Acids Research, Genomic Medicine, and Briefings in Bioinformatics. He is a recipient of the global top peer review awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 awarded by Clarivate.