Rewarding excellent teachers
High-class teaching has been crucial to CityU’s recent successes, and the Teaching Excellence Awards (TEA) reward our best practitioners. The TEA winners for 2019/20 are Dr Kannie Chan Wai-yan, Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering; Professor Daniel Ho Wing-cheong of the Department of Mathematics; and team members from the Department of Computer Science (CS) behind the project “Professional Placement Team for Computer Science Students” represented by team leader Dr Wong Hau-san, Associate Professor, with team members Dr Chan Mang-tang, University Lecturer, Dr Jacky Keung Wai, Associate Professor, and Dr Kwok Lam-for, Associate Professor. These colleagues are also nominated for consideration of the UGC Teaching Award 2020, respectively, for the Early Career Faculty Member, General Faculty Member and Team categories.
HKIAS Distinguished Tutorial Series
Over the course of four lectures, Professor David J Srolovitz will discuss the development of a predictive and coherent understanding of grain boundary structure, energetics, and motion from the atomistic to continuum scales. He will synthesise the thermodynamic, crystallographic, statistical mechanics and kinetic descriptions of grain boundary structure and behaviour. Due to concerns about the coronavirus, there will be no registration and on-site audience for the event. Video and PowerPoint slides for the four lectures will be posted here on 19 June.
Professor Srolovitz is Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chair Professor of Materials Science, and Senior Fellow in the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study.
Live from France!
Broadening our extensive deployment of online learning and knowledge sharing with world experts, there will be a special lecture live from France on 3 June by Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry; Senior Fellow of Hong Kong Institute of Advanced Study; and the 1987 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, the talk "Steps Towards Life: Chemistry!" will demonstrate “resilience against the climate of helplessness” and “celebrate the power of basic science”. Please click here for details.
Covid-19 and models of governance
Leading scholars and policymakers from Asia and other parts of the world will evaluate the performance of different governance models/approaches for fighting the pandemic in Asia at a symposium jointly organised by the Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law; and the Public Law and the Human Rights Forum at the School of Law. They will examine governance-related regulatory issues concerning legitimacy, rule of law, rights protection, the policymaking process, public health systems, government–business relations, corporate social responsibility, regional economic integration, and global governance. This online symposium will take place on 12 June. For more details, check here.
21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop
The theme for the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop (CLSW2020) held from 28 to 30 May was “Lexical Semantics, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science”. Organised by the Department of Linguistics and Translation, CLSW2020 featured six renowned keynote speakers on the thematic topics. In view of the pandemic, the workshop was held online.
Art exhibitions
A solo exhibition by Professor Jeffrey Shaw, Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Media Art in the School of Creative Media (SCM), titled WYSIWYG at Osage Gallery in Kwun Tong through 21 June provides “a rare opportunity to experience an overview and insight into the core technical, aesthetic and conceptual themes” that have preoccupied Professor Shaw’s creative research since the 1960s. More information is available here.
Dr Tobias Klein, Assistant Professor in SCM, is exhibiting his latest project Metamorphosis or Confrontation at the University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong through 30 August. In the show, Dr Klein explores the theme of Digital Craftsmanship. For details, visit here.
Kudos
Professor Ron Chen Guanrong of the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) has been included in the World’s Top 1,000 Scientists according to the 2020 (6th edition) of the Top Scientists Ranking for Computer Science & Electronics prepared by Guide2Research. Professor Chen is ranked 16th worldwide and ranked 1st in Hong Kong and in Asia with an H-Index of 149 and 100,895 citations. There are 144 Chinese scholars on the list and Professor Chen is ranked 4th among the 144 listed Chinese scholars.
Professor Evelyn Hu, Honorary Professor in EE and the Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, has been selected to receive the 2020 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for “pioneering contributions to microelectronics fabrication technologies for nanoscale and photonic devices”. The IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award was established in 1999 and is sponsored by the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
Dr Hector Rodriguez, Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media (SCM), has received the Artist of the Year Award (Media Arts) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in recognition of his achievements in the field. This is the third year running that an SCM faculty member has won this award, which demonstrates remarkable leadership in the field. In addition, SCM alumna Ms Qu Qianwen (Vvzela Kook) (MFA, 2015) was named Young Artist of the Year Award (Media Arts).
Professor Richard Walker, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social and Chan Hon Pun Professor of Behavioural and Policy Sciences, won the Louis Brownlow Award for his co-authored article “Does Strategic Planning Improve Organizational Performance? A Meta-Analysis” published in Public Administration Review.
Professor Raymond Chan Hon-fu, Dean and Chair Professor at the College of Science, had the honour of chairing the organising committee for 6th Annual International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IMMC 2020) Finalist Presentation Competition for the Region of Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau hosted online from 8 to 9 May by the College of Science. The event integrates mathematics with science, technology and engineering and applies mathematics to socioeconomic context, including AI and machine learning.