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Department of Information Engineering, CUHK

Department of Information Engineering, CUHK. Wing Shing Wong. Mission of the IE Department. To excel in its educational programmes, To nurture world class research in information engineering areas, and To promote technology transfer in support of the local industry.

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Department of Information Engineering, CUHK

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, CUHK Wing Shing Wong

  2. Mission of the IE Department • To excel in its educational programmes, • To nurture world class research in information engineering areas, and • To promote technology transfer in support of the local industry.

  3. People of the IE Department • 23 academic staff • Several HKIE and IEEE Fellows • Over half with strong industrial experience (at Bell Labs, Bellcore, IBM, etc) • 2 B. Eng. degrees with 350 students • Around 60 Postgraduate students • Advisory Committee • Including 14 external members from industry, government, and industry, and 1 HKIE representative • Visiting Examiner • Professor Vincent Chan of MIT

  4. R&D Activities • Excellent Research Assessment Exercise results • Recent awards: China National Natural Science Award and Croucher Senior Fellowship • AoE in IT • Key project grants received in the 98/01 triennium Project Number Funding RGC Earmarked Grants 20 $ 9,512,000 Innovation Tech Fund 3 $ 16,000,000 UGC (AOE & others) $ 12,300,000 Quality Education Fund 1 $ 18,900,000 Internal $ 5,430,000 Others $ 690,000 Total $ 62,832,000

  5. Funding sources for the 98/01 triennium

  6. Key Research Areas • Optical Communications • Wireless Communications • Networking/Internet • Multimedia • Communications theory

  7. Technology Transfer • HK School Net/HK Cyber Campus • IT Entrepreneur Program • Spin-off companies • IXTech • Wisers • Technology licensing • Industrial consulting activities

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