Bulletin No. 2, 2014

News in Brief  37  Joseph Sung Named Hong Kong Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung (left), Vice- Chance l l o r and Mok H i ng Y i u Professor of Medicine, has been awarded the 2014 Hong Kong Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award and will make a lecture tour of major US universities. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international education exchange programme run by the US Government. It operates in more than 155 countries worldwide and has provided approximately 310,000 participants with the opportunity to study, teach, or conduct research in each other’s countries. The award is bestowed on an eminent scholar every year to foster academic exchange between Hong Kong and the US. Fanny Cheung Honoured for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology Prof. Fanny M.C. Cheung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Psychology of CUHK, was presented the 2014 Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to the International Advancement of Applied Psychology by the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) at the International Congress of Applied Psychology held in Paris. This is the first time an Asian psychologist has won this quadrennial award. So far, there have been a total of 10 award recipients. Wang Jun Wins Neural Networks Pioneer Award Prof. Wang Jun ( lef t) from the Faculty of Engineering received the Neural Networks Pioneer Award for his outstanding achievements in neurodynamic optimization in the biennial IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence held in Beijing from 6 to 11 July. Started in 1991, the award is considered the highest honour in the field of neural networks. An IEEE fellow and editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics , Professor Wang is the third Asian to receive this honour. Honours and Recognition