Bulletin No. 1, 2019

H onours and R ecognitions Two Scientists Granted Croucher Awards Two scholars from the Faculty of Science received prizes from the Croucher Foundation in recognition of their achievements in scientific research and the support they give to the next generation of scientists. Prof. Tjonnie Li (left), Department of Physics, whose research focuses on astrophysics and gravitational waves, received the Croucher Innovation Award 2018. The CUHK research team led by Professor Li has been a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and responsible for analysing data from the LIGO detectors since 2016. Prof. Qian Miao (right), Department of Chemistry, who has been exploring and developing organic chemistry and molecular functional materials, was awarded the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2019. The research team Professor Miao leads has experimented with organic rather than inorganic materials in the fabrication of thin film transistors, a fundamental device in electronic products. Prof. Emily Chan Receives National Teaching Award Prof. Emily Chan (3rd from right, front row), Assistant Dean (Global Engagement), Faculty of Medicine and Associate Director of the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care and Head of its Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine, the Centre for Global Health, has won a second prize in the 2018 National Teaching Achievement Award (High Education) from the Ministry of Education for leading the ‘Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Global Field Experiential Teachin and Learning’ project. Professor Chan, also Director of Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response, initiated the field-based Ethnic Minority Health Project. She has been dedicated to pulling together an extensive global, field-based experiential learning network through her academic projects and partners. CUHK Receives Two Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards Two scientific research projects conducted by CUHK have received Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) 2018 from the Ministry of Education. Prof. Michael Lyu (centre), Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, won a second-class award in Natural Sciences with his research of ‘Reliability Prediction and Evaluation towards Software Services’. Prof. Dennis Lo (2nd right), Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences and Chairman of the Department of Chemical Pathology, and Prof. Allen Chan (2nd left), Department of Chemical Pathology, won a second-class award in Technological Innovation with their research of ‘Analysis of Plasma DNA to Screen for Early Nasopharyngeal Cancer’. Team Project Award Prof. Yang Shenghao and Prof. Raymond Yeung, from the Institute of Network Coding BATS: Enabling the Nervous System of Smart Cities Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury Prof. Philip Chiu, from the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Yam Yeung and Dr. Lau Ka-chun, from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Endoscopic Surgical Robot Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury Nezha (by Dr. Gabriel Fung, from the Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, Faculty of Engineering, with technology licensed by CUHK) Nezha—an AI-driven Checkbot for proof reading Chinese Gold Medal Fourteen Awards in the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva CUHK received fourteen awards, including two Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury, one Gold Medal, eight Silver Medals, two Bronze Medal and the Prize of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation—Romania in the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. The three projects granted Gold Medal are as right: 35 News in Brief