Bulletin No. 2, 2009

Honours and Recognition   43  Paper Praised for Enduring Influence P rof. Fu Wai-chee Ada, associate professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been awarded the Influential Paper Award at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) for her co-authored paper ‘Efficient Time Series Matching by Wavelets’ presented 10 years ago. The ICDE, a premier forum in engineering, assessed papers presented 10 years ago for the single award this year. First presented in 1999, Professor Fu’s pioneering paper which proposed wavelets as an efficient time series matching technique, has been highly regarded by the database community. New Design Ups Vibration Energy Collection by Half D edicated to investigating energy harvested from vibration and transforming it into electrical energy, Prof. Liao Wei-hsin (right) and his PhD student Mr. Liang Junrui (left) of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, designed an improved self- powered switching interface for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Circuits which can increase the energy harvested by 50%. The innovative design won them the Best Paper Award in Automation in the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation.