Prof Jun WANG received the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Achievement Award in Shenzhen, China in December 2016 in recognition of his significant contributions to early concepts and sustained developments in the field of neural networks in particular and artificial intelligence as a whole.
A research project led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) aiming at enhancing security and privacy for cloud storage has been awarded HKD5.98 million from the Collaborative Research Fund of the Research Grants Council in the 2016-17 exercise.
This successful application recognises our research excellence and highlights our capacity to lead projects in collaborative research across disciplines and across institutions.
Seven faculty members from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have been selected for the list of Highly Cited Researchers announced by Clarivate Analytics for 2017.
The annual list recognises leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences around the world. The list is published by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters.
Dr Jacky KEUNG together with Dr Arif Ali KHAN, a CS PhD graduate, received the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Software Premium Award for their co-authored paper titled “Systematic review of success factors and barriers for software process improvement in global software development” in the journal of IET Software.
Each year the IET awards a prize to the authors of the best paper published within the last two years in each of the IET’s journals. Dr Keung’s paper is the only Best Paper in the category of Software Engineering received such a prestigious award.
Dr Junhui Hou is awarded the Early Career Award in recognition of his outstanding proposal titled “Towards Immersive 3-D Telepresence: Compact Light-Field Representation and Beyond” in the Early Career Scheme (ECS) category in 2018-19, which is set up by the Research Grant Council (RGC) for supporting junior faculty members early in their academic careers.
Prof Qingfu Zhang was selected for the list of Highly Cited Researchers announced by Clarivate Analytics for three consecutive years, from 2016 to 2018.
The annual list recognises leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences around the world. The list is published by Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters.
Dr Zhenjiang Li received the Best Paper Award for his co-authored paper titled “RF-Mehndi: A Fingertip Profiled RF Identifier” in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2019 held in Paris, France on 29 April – 2 May 2019.
IEEE INFOCOM is a premier conference on networking to provide a venue for researchers to present and exchange significant and innovative contributions and ideas in the field of networking and closely related areas.
Dr Cong Wang will be conferred the Outstanding Research Award for Junior Faculty for Year 2019 in recognition of his exceptionally outstanding research achievements. The Award will be presented at the University Congregation in November 2019.
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Miss Jingyi ZHANG, a PhD student, and her supervisor Dr Gerhard HANCKE, together with Dr Bo CHENG, a 2016 PhD graduate, received the Best Paper Award 2019 for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, for their co-authored paper titled “Industrial Cyberphysical Systems: Realizing Cloud-Based Big Data Infrastructures,” awarded by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES).
Dr Shiqi WANG received the Best Paper Award for his co-authored paper titled “Towards Digital Retina in Smart Cities: A Model Generation, Utilization and Communication Paradigm” in the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2019 held in Shanghai, China in July 2019.