Bulletin No. 1, 2019

Bridge Project Recognized by Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors The ‘Yi Xin Qiao’ bridge project in Dujia Village, Chongqing, was awarded the Jury’s Award of Sustainability Achievement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards China 2019. This collaboration project between CUHK, Tsinghua University, Chongqing Jiaotong University and Chongqing University, led by CUHK Architecture PhD student Shao Changzhuan, was recognized for its bamboo research and outstanding ideas and achievement in promoting rural sustainability. The design would also help eliminate the dangers in river-crossing. Math Professor Honoured as SIAM Fellow Engineering Professors Elected IEEE Fellows Kudos for MAE Researchers Prof. Huang Jie (left), Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, and Dr. Liu Wei (right) of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering received the CAA Excellent PhD Thesis Supervisor Award and the CAA Excellent PhD Thesis Award from the Chinese Association of Automation, respectively. Their thesis is among 10 PhD theses that were selected out of 500 in the field of automation in 2018. Outstanding Research and Care in Diabetes Prof. Zou Jun, Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mathematics, was honoured by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in the United States as a Fellow of the 2019 Class. Professor Zou was awarded in recognition of his contributions to ‘numerical methods and analyses of direct and inverse problems of partial differential equations’. Prof. Juliana Chan (left) of the Department of Medicine & Therapeutics received American Diabetes Association’s 2019 Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes in recognition of her achievements in the diabetes research and international impact. Professor Chan has set up large patient cohorts, biobanks and databases to define the causes and consequences of people with diabetes in Asia. She also developed an 11-country Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation programme. Prof. Tsang Hon-ki (left) and Prof. Irwin King (right) from the Faculty of Engineering were elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the class of 2019 for their research contributions to ‘nonlinear silicon photonics and advanced waveguide grating couplers’ and the ‘theory and applications of machine learning in social computing’. H onours and R ecognitions 36 Chinese University Bulletin No.1, 2019