IEEE – HK Section Report 2005
PART A - SECTION SUMMARY
A.1 Executive Summary
IEEE - Hong Kong Section is a very well organized geographical unit in IEEE Region 10. With a total number of 14 chapters and two affinity groups, our volunteers continue to provide services as well as organize technical activities for our members. In 2005, The Section and Chapters have organized/co-organized 15 major Workshop/ Conference/ Symposium (as listed in table of Section B6 below) and over 50 seminars and technical visits and these events are very well received by our members. The outstanding achievement has actually recognized by the IEEE Society and the Joint Chapter of CAS/COM and Joint Chapter of IAS/PES/PELS/IES are given the best Chapter Award.
Mainland China is one of the most important countries for IEEE strategic development. The Region 10 Director Dr. Seiichi Takeuchi and his Executive Officers taken a tour visit China to foster closer link with Section and Sub-sections in China. He has also visited our Section in this tour and brief his vision of the development in Region 10. Our neighbor city Macau also established her own Section in 2004 and we were invited to visit them in June of 2005 in order to share our experience in section operation with them. We have also agreed to share information about the latest activities through our E-newsletter. In particular, we also invite them to jointly support the TENCON 2006 which will be held in Hong Kong in November 2006.
The financial position maintain healthy and the total income of 2005 was HK$159,895.81 of which 80% was from the IEEE HQ rebate and the remaining was from the contribution of the Affinity VISA Card Program, interest and advertisement. The total expense of 2005 was HK$125,047.54 and of which 57% went to support student activities, including financial subsidy to Student Branches, award of prizes to winners of Student Paper Contest, and recipients of student prizes via relevant local Universities. Finally we had a surplus of HK$34,848.27 in 2005.
The Hong Kong Section has grown to a relative large organization and the Executive Committee has decided to regulate the operational management. In particular the accounting system is required to be re-organized in order to comply with the local law. This, although, is transparent to members, it is important for Section’s management. A task force has also established for this purpose.
A.3 List of Section Officer and Executive Committee Members in 2005
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Chairman |
Dr. W H Lau |
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Chairman-elected |
Dr. Edward Lo |
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Hon. Secretary |
Mr. PF Tsui |
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Hon. Treasurer |
Dr. David K.W. Cheng |
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Immediate Past Chair |
Dr. H W Ngan |
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External Liaison Coordinator |
Mr. Y W Liu |
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Awards & Recognition Coordinator |
Dr. N F Chin |
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Newsletter Editor |
Mr. Jerome C.W. Liu |
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Membership Development Coordinator |
Dr. Paul C K Kwok |
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Technical Activities Coordinator |
Dr. KW Wong |
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Web Services Coordinator |
Dr. Terry Ng |
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Student Activities Coordinator |
Dr. Wilson Chu |
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Education Activities Coordinator |
Dr. Joseph Ng |
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Professional and Career Activities Coordinator |
Dr. Andrew Lai |
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GOLD Committee Chair |
Mr. Kent TK Chan |
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Women in Engineering Committee Chair |
Mr. Clive KL Lee |
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HKU Student Branch Counselor |
Dr. S.W. Cheung |
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CUHK Student Branch Counselor |
Dr. T. Lee |
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PolyU Student Branch Counselor |
Dr. Issac YF Fung |
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CityU Student Branch Counselor |
Dr. Eric Wong |
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HKUST Student Branch Counselor |
Dr. Andrew W.O. Poon |
Chapter Chairs (automatically a member of ExCo)
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Antenna & Propagation /Microwave Theory & Techniques |
Dr. W.Y. Tam |
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Circuits and Systems / Communications |
Dr. Peter Tam |
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Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology |
Dr. Ming Li |
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Computer |
Dr. Man Wai Mak |
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Consumer Electronics |
Ms. Robin S. Bradbeer |
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Electronic Devices / Solid-State Circuits |
Dr. Mansun Chan |
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Engineering Management |
Mr. Jolly Wong |
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Industry Applications / Industrial Electronics / Power Electronics / Power Engineering |
Mr. David T.W. Chan |
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Information Theory |
Dr. Wai Ho MOW |
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Lasers & Electro-Optics |
Dr. Hon-Ki Tsang |
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Computation Intelligence (Neural Network ) |
Dr. Yiu-Ming Cheung |
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Robotics & Automation / Control Systems |
Prof. Michael Yu Wang |
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Signal Processing |
Dr. T. Lee |
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System, Man and Cybernetics |
Prof. Daniel S Yeung |
PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES
B.1 Membership Development Programs
In 2005, the GOLD of HK Section is very active, they organized many activities and could attract new graduates from university to join them.
The list of activities is in Section B6 below.
B.3 Students Activities
Recognizing the importance of arising the visibility of IEEE to the students studying in electrical/electronics/computer related disciplines, Section not only financially supports the 5 active student branches to organize activities, but also organize paper contest to let young talents to demonstrate their achievement. The winning papers have been submitted to the R10 Student Paper Contest. In 2005, we have won a 1st Prize and we congratulate Mr. Zeng Jia for his outstanding achievement.
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IEEE STUDENT PAPER CONTEST 2005 (POSTGRADUATE SECTION)- WINNERS |
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Authors |
Paper title |
RANK |
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Zeng Jia
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Type-2 Fuzzy Hidden Markov Models and Their Applications to Phoneme Classification |
1st
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B.4 E-mail and Newsletter Activities, Home Page
The HK Section uses extensively its Web Page (http://www.ieee.org.hk) to communicate effectively with its members. Most and the Chapters also have their own Web Pages. IN 2005, the HK Section published 11 issues of electronic Newsletter to members via email, and 1 hard print Newsletter to members via postal services.
Following the deployment of the Section’s web-server, most of the information dissemination and units’ operations can be done more easily. In order to maintain a high quality web service to our Chapters and members, we have established a task force to constantly upgrade and refine the system in order to provide quality services.
B.5 Awards
In the three tables below, some of the outstanding achievements of our members/Chapters of Hong Kong Sections are listed. We hope that our members/Chapters will be awarded with more honours in coming years.
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2005 IEEE Fellows |
Contribution |
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Prof. Jie Huang |
For contributions to nonlinear control theory and applications |
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Prof. Tony Tong Lee |
For contributions to high-speed scalable packet switching technology for broadband telecommunications networks. |
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Prof. Xunyu Zhou |
For contributions to the theory and applications of stochastic control |
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Authors |
Award |
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S.-Y. Robert Li, R. W. Yeung, and N. Cai |
2005 Best Information Theory Paper Award: “Linear network coding,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 49, pp. 371-381, Februray 2003. |
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Tien-Tsin Wong, Chi-Wing Fu, Pheng-Arm Heng and Chi-Sing Leung |
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia - The Multimedia Prize Paper Award 2005: "The Plenoptic Illumination Function," published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Volume 4, pp. 361-371, September 2002.
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UNIT |
AWARD |
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Joitn Chapter of CAS/COM |
Chapter Achievement Awards 2005 Winners: Winner of the 3rd Best in Asia Pacific Region |
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Joint Chapter of IAS/PES/PELS/IES |
IEEE Industry Applications Society's 2005 Outstanding Small Joint Chapter Award |
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Date |
Workshop/Conference/Symposium |
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20-21 |
Jan |
The 2005 IEEE Taiwan/Hong Kong Joint Workshop on Information Theory and Communications |
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12-14 |
May |
2005 Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) |
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13-14 |
June |
International Conference on Alternative Energy |
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29 June - |
03 July |
2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics |
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14-15 |
July |
2005 Regional Inter-University Postgraduate Electrical and Electronic Engineering Conference |
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17-19 |
Aug |
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Real-time and Embedded Computing Systems and Applications |
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8 |
Oct |
The Sixth IEEE Hong Kong AP/MTT Postgraduate Conference |
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29 |
Oct |
Workshop on Frontiers in Nanophotonics |
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26 |
Nov |
Hong Kong Information Theory PostGraduate Day |
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1-2 |
Dec |
2005 Asia Pacific Conference on Risk Management and Safety - Challenges in Engineering Applications and Advances in Technologies |
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3 |
Dec |
The Sixth IEEE Hong Kong LEOS Postgraduate Conference |
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11-13 |
Dec |
2005 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Visual Information Processing |
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14-17 |
Dec |
2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems |
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17 |
Dec |
Workshop on Microarray Bioinformatics |
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19-21 |
Dec |
2005 IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-state Circuit |
and over 50 seminars and technical visits
PART C - GOALS AND PLANS
C.1 Goals
Other than the usual conferences/seminars/symposiums/technical talks, we will have the following major tasks in 2006:
o TENCON2006 in November 2006 in Hong Kong
o The 35th Anniversary Ceremony of IEEE – Hong Kong Section
o Centralization of accounting system of chapters
o Upgrading of the web server of Hong Kong Section to provide a better services to members and Sections as well
o Jointly with government to organize a University-based Electronics Technology Project Study Programme to promote our disciplines to secondary students.
o An Organizing Committee was set up for TENCON2006
o Will start to organize the 35th Anniversary Ceremony of IEEE in summer of 2006
o The treasurer and the web master of the Section will develop an on-line system to facilitate the centralization of accounting system of chapters
o A task force was established for upgrading of the web server of Hong Kong Section to provide a better services to members and Sections as well
o An Organizing Committee was formed for the University-based Electronics Technology Project Study Programme to promote our disciplines to secondary students.