Bulletin No. 1, 2010

Honours and Recognition  39 Two Engineering Professors Elected ASME Fellows P rof. Liao Wei-hsin (top) and Prof. Du Ruxu (bottom) from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering have been elected fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2009 for contributions to their fields. Professor Liao is an expert in smart structures and vibration technologies. One of his recent inventions is a smart assistive knee brace that can improve the mobility of the elderly and those with knee joint disease. Professor Du has developed many innovative manufacturing devices and made significant contributions to monitoring and diagnosis of manufacturing processes. The ASME elected 96 fellows from around the world in 2009. Professors Liao and Du were two of three from Hong Kong. Prof. John Lui Conferred ACM and IEEE Fellowships P rof. John Lui Chi-shing, chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has been elected a fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 2009, 47 scholars were elected ACM fellows worldwide and Professor Lui is the only one from China. The honour recognizes his extraordinary contributions to stochastic analysis of parallel storage and communication systems. IEEE also elected Professor Lui as a 2010 fellow in recognition of his outstanding contributions to performance modelling and analysis of storage communication systems and peer-to-peer networks.