Appointments
Professor Lee Chun-sing, Chair Professor of Materials Chemistry, has been appointed Dean of the College of Science from 1 December 2021. Professor Lee received his BSc and PhD from the University of Hong Kong and joined CityU in 1994. He co-founded the Centre of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films in 1998 and is a distinguished scholar in organic electronics devices and nanomaterials for energy, environmental and biomedical applications.
Professor Lu Ya-yan has been appointed Head of the Department of Mathematics from 15 November 2021. He is an international expert in computational photonics, and has worked on numerical methods for photonic crystals, diffraction gratings and nonlinear optics, and optical waveguides (such as optical fibres) that guide the propagation of light. He holds a PhD from MIT.
Kudos
PhD students Fan Xinqi and Ali Raza Shahid under the supervision of Professor Yan Hong, Wong Chun Hong Professor of Data Engineering and Chair Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, were ranked 2nd in the Facial Micro-Expression (FME) Challenge at the ACM Multimedia 2021 for their paper “Facial Micro-Expression Generation based on Deep Motion Re-targeting and Transfer Learning”. The goal of the challenge was to generate specific micro-expression (source) on the given template faces (target). Experts from China, Finland and the UK evaluated the submissions.
Two undergraduates from the College of Business and two from the School of Law teamed up to win the Best Paper Award in the Corporate Governance Paper Competition and Presentation Awards 2021. They are Hellen Liu Dingyi and Isaac Lee Ruifeng, Year 4 students studying for the Bachelor of Business Administration (Accountancy) in the Department of Accountancy; and Magnolia Wang Jingbo and Shevin Fan Wenxuan, Year 4 students studying for the Bachelor of Laws in the School of Law. The competition was organised by the Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute (HKCGI) and the winning paper will be published in HKCGI’s journal CSj. The CityU team beat 26 other teams to win the competition.