Xu He, Tao Huang, Wing-Kai Chow, Ka-Chun Lam, Jian Kuang, Wenzan Cai, supervised by Prof. Evangeline F.Y. Young won the second place of the ICCAD 2012 International CAD Contest on the topic of Design Hierarchy Aware Routability-driven Placement.

Mr. NG Tsz Ming won the champion in the tertiary section of “Safe and Sustainable Transportation for Tomorrow” Paper Competition which was organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). His paper titled “Optimized Route-Planning System (ORPS)”.

LAU Yat Tin Andy and LAU Kin Wing supervised by Prof. Jia Jiaya Leo, won the Second Runner-up in the 9th Final Year Project Competition of IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter 2012.

Mr. Li Ping, a PhD student supervised by Prof. SUN Hanqiu, won the First Runner-up in the Postgraduate Paper Contest of IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter 2012.

Prof. Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu, Prof. Irwin King, Dr. Hongbo Deng and Prof. Jiawei Han have been awarded the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award for their paper, titled “Modeling and Exploiting Heterogeneous Bibliographic Networks for Expertise Ranking”.

Dr. ZHENG Zibin, a PhD student supervised by Prof. Michael Rung-Tsong LYU, has been selected as the winner of the Faculty’s Outstanding Thesis Award 2011.

Mr Jianye Hao, a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Leung Ho Fung, who won the 1st place as well as the “Best in Discounted Domains” Award in the third Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2012).

Three engineering students won the championship in the 2012 Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest – Embedded System Design Invitational Contest with their innovative design ‘Chinese Sign Language Recognition and Translation System’ for deaf mutes.

CSE ACM Programming Team came in eighth and was awarded a silver medal in the 36th Annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). This is the best result achieved by an institution from Hong Kong in the last 20 years.

The outstanding teams have snatched both the Championship and 2nd runner up in the IBM Inter-University Programming Contest 2012.

Prof Ada Fu, whose paper has been identified as the recipient of the Most Influential Paper Award from PAKDD 2012.

Mr. Ben Siu-Yuen Fung received the best paper award in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-11) for the paper titled “A Privacy-Preserving Defense Mechanism Against Request Forgery Attacks”.

Dr. Haiqin Yang has been awarded the first prize in the IEEE Hong Kong Section PG Student Paper Contest 2010 for the paper titled “Online Learning for Multi-Task Feature Selection”.

Prof. Michael Rung-Tsong Lyu has been co-awarded the distinction of 2010 IEEE Reliability Society Engineer of the Year Award by the IEEE Reliability Society. Engineering of the Year Award is one of the highest awards offered from the IEEE Reliability Society.

The bi-annual Challenge Cup is considered the premier national competition of extra-curricular technological projects of university students. Students of CUHK won the Hong Kong and Macau Cup, the fifth gold cup CUHK has got in five consecutive competitions.

International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) Contest is an annual contest in VLSI CAD attracting many research teams from academia and industry to participate. The contest is organized by IBM and the result will be announced in the annual conference, ISPD.

Undergraduate students recently won a gold medal at the iGEM (international Genetic Engineered Machine) Asia Regional Jamboree. They also won the Best BioBrick Measurement Approach and the Best New BioBrick Part (Natural) awards.

ACM ICPC is the largest computer programming contest in the world. It provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solving and computing skills. The contest is considered to be the “Olympics of Computer Programming”.

Mr. Li Liang, a MPhil student supervised by Prof. Young Fung Yu, received the Outstanding Thesis Award 2010 for his thesis entitled “Obstacle-avoiding Rectilinear Steiner Tree”.

Mr Wenhao Chen received the Best Student Paper Award in the 11th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2010) for his paper entitled “Context-aware Basic Level Concepts Detection in Folksonomies.” WAIM is a leading international conference in Web data management.

2010 Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest – Embedded System Design Invitational Contest invited 76 universities and 165 team from China mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Turkey, Ukraine, Mexico and the United States.

The paper is titled “Distributed QoS Evaluation for Real-World Web Services”. ICWS is a prime international conference in service computing. A total of 221 papers were submitted to the conference this year, and two paper awards were given. The CUHK paper won the only best student paper award.

Their paper “Collaborative Reliability Prediction for Service-Oriented Systems” was presented at the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). ICSE is the most influential international conference on software engineering. The CUHK paper won one of the five distinguished paper awards.

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study.