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.

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

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 FundingRGC Earmarked Grants 20 $ 9,512,000Innovation Tech Fund 3 $ 16,000,000UGC (AOE & others) $ 12,300,000Quality Education Fund 1 $ 18,900,000Internal $ 5,430,000Others $ 690,000Total $ 62,832,000

Funding sources for the 98/01 triennium

ITF25%

QEF30%

Internal9%

Others1%

UGC (AoE etc)20%

RGC Earmarked

15%

Key Research Areas

Optical Communications Wireless Communications Networking/Internet Multimedia Communications theory

Technology Transfer HK School Net/HK Cyber Campus IT Entrepreneur Program Spin-off companies

IXTech Wisers

Technology licensing Industrial consulting activities