Bulletin No. 2, 2015

Courtesy of British Council Hong Kong Volleyball Champion in University Friendship Games About 100 students from CUHK, Peking University and the University of Taiwan met in the seventh University Friendship Games hosted by CUHK in October. The CUHK teams clinched gold in men’s volleyball and silver in women’s basketball. Research of Crowdsourced Networks Wins NCEL Student Paper Award The Network Communications and Economics Lab led by Prof. Huang Jianwei (left), Department of Information Engineering, has recently made a comprehensive analysis of users’ behaviours in crowdsourced Wi-Fi community networks. Its research team demonstrated that such a novel Wi-Fi network scenario can help to expand the WiFi coverage with a low cost, by incentivizing individual users to share their private home Wi-Fi Access Points with each other. This work won the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE WiOpt 2015, a leading wireless conference focusing on modelling and optimization of wireless networks. The co-authors of this work include Ms. Ma Qian (middle), Dr. Lin Gao (right) from the NCEL, and Prof. Liu Yafeng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Medical Student Wins Grand Prize in FameLab Contest Law Wing-sze Nancy (centre), a Year 3 medical student, captured the grand prize at the FameLab competition Hong Kong 2015 on 14 March. The science communication competition was organized by the British Council. Nancy was also voted by all audience as the winner of the Audience Choice Award. Themed ‘Our Internal Biological Clock’. Her winning performance was about the relationship between the shortening of telomere and ageing. The Best and the Brightest 31