President’s Lecture Series: Excellence in Academia
This year has been turbulent across the world – from the passing away of basketball legend Kobe Bryant to the global spread of the novel coronavirus. Underlying these two seemingly unrelated occurrences lies a common culprit: droplets. In fact, droplets are also cleverly used in the timely diagnostics of the novel coronavirus. This talk by CityU’s Professor Wang Zuankai focuses on how to understand the world through the lens of small droplets as well as how to use droplets to make the world a better place.
The talk is titled “A big world in a small droplet” and takes place on 28 April. It will be broadcast live and online due to the coronavirus. Professor Wang is Associate Dean (Internationalisation and Industry Engagement) of the College of Engineering. Since joining CityU, he has published 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 13 of which have been published in Nature, Science and their sister journals.
Kudos
Professor Zhang Yuanting, Chair Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, is the only member from the Greater China area to sit on the editorial advisory board for the new IEEE Open Journal of Engineering Medicine and Biology (OJEMB). Other board members include distinguished researchers in relevant fields from Harvard and MIT. OJEMB focuses on biomedical engineering and health sciences. A paper by Dr Rosa Chan Ho-man, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has been published in the inaugural issue.
Professor Wang Xunli, Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Physics, has been elected Fellow of the Neutron Scattering Society of America for his “innovative neutron scattering studies at the interface between condensed matter physics and engineering materials science, and for the development of new neutron instrumentation to enable these seminal studies”. Professor Wang’s expertise lies in neutron and synchrotron scattering measurements. He applies these state-of-the-art experimental techniques to study phase transformation and deformation in advanced materials.
Dr Sammy Chan Chi-hung, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has received the IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award 2020. The winning paper, co-authored with scholars from mainland China, is titled “An Uneven Cluster-Based Mobile Charging Algorithm for Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks”. This award is presented annually by the IEEE Systems Council to papers deemed the best among those published in the IEEE Systems Journal during the preceding calendar year.