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Dr Ray Cheung and his PhD student, Mr Abdurrashid Ibrahim SANKA, have won the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE 26th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng 2018). The winning paper is titled “Efficient High Performance FPGA based NoSQL Caching System for Blockchain Scalability and Throughput Improvement”.

The Conference was jointly organized on a rotational basis among three institutions, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland, and Coventry University, UK, which provided a high-level forum for scholars, researchers and engineers from all over the world to share their views, research achievements, explore the hot issues and exchange the new experiences and technologies in the fields of Systems Engineering.

Link: http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/home/news_studentachievements.html#student18022019

Two of our EE 2018 graduates won the Merit Prize of HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2018.

Jointly organized by The Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association (HKEIA) and Hong Kong Electronic Industries Association Education Foundation (HKEIAEF), the Award is designed to recognize and reward students with outstanding final year projects which demonstrate excellence in technology and innovation.

Congratulations to Miss Ip, Mr. Ng, Dr. Cheung and Dr. Wu!

Dr. Ray is appointed as a TPC member in the program committee of ARC2019 (15th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing). Congratulations!

Nice meeting with Matthew, the director from Huawei, and he shares the information about new chip from Hisilicon and discusses with members about research. A further group meeting will be held in Huawei Hong Kong branch.

Mr. Jack Xu recently received the CityU Outstanding Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Congratulations!