Awards and Recognitions

Prof. Jianbin XU

• IEEE Fellow on Nanotechnology, 2017
• Best Presentation Award at the China PV Technology International Conference (CPVTIC 2017), 31 Mar 2017, Xi’an, China.
• Cheung Kong Visiting Chair Professorship 2014 at Nanjing University, Ministry of Education, China. 
• Outstanding Fellows (Faculty-level) Awards of CUHK, 2014
• The paper "Large-Grain Formamidinium PbI3–xBrx for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells via Intermediate Halide Exchange" (Long et al, 2017) was selected by the Advanced Energy Materials as the cover page (Volume 7, Issue 12, June 21, 2017, 1601882).  The cover of Advanced Energy Materials is highly coveted. It is instantly recognisable and associated worldwide with the highest quality research from the top researchers in the field. 
• The paper "Crystallinity Preservation and Ion Migration Suppression through Dual Ion Exchange Strategy for Stable Mixed Perovskite Solar Cells" has been highlighted on the Advanced Science News. 

Prof. Ni ZHAO 

• Prof. Zhao's student, Mr Hui YU won the Best Paper Award in CU Energy Day 2014
• Best Poster Award, Perovskite Solar Cells session, 2015 MRS Spring Meeting.

Prof. Keyou YAN

• 1,000 Youth Talents Program, 2018
• Two papers are seleced as "Essential Science Indicators" (ESI) highly cited papers:
  • Yan K, Wei Z., Li J, Chen H, Yi Y, Zheng X, Long X, Wang Z, Wang JN, Xu JB & Yang S. "High-Performance Graphene-Based Hole Conductor-Free Perovskite Solar Cells: Schottky Junction Enhanced Hole Extraction and Electron Blocking." Small 2015, 11 (19), 2269-2274.
  • Yan, K.; Long, M.; Zhang, T.; Wei, Z.; Chen, H.; Yang, S.; Xu, J., "Hybrid Halide Perovskite Solar Cell Precursors: Colloidal Chemistry and Coordination Engineering behind Device Processing for High Efficiency." J Am Chem Soc 2015, 137 (13), 4460-4468. 

• Highly Cited Researcher 2016, Chemistry and Materials Science, Web of Science 

Prof. Jianfang WANG

• Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) Laureate, 31st Session 2018

Prof. Wei-hsin LIAO

• Outstanding Fellows (Faculty-level) Awards of CUHK, 2014

Prof. Ching-ping WONG 

• Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering 2013-17

Prof Yi-Chun LU 

• CUHK Young Researcher Award 2016

Prof. Dah Ming CHIU

• The detailed analysis of current energy usage with CUHK Lee Woo Sing College led to the Silver Award in the GREENPLUS Recognition Award 2014 of China Light Power (CLP) HK Ltd. [Read more]

Prof. Minghua CHEN

• Prof. Chen's student, Mr Lu Lian, won a CUHK Faculty of Engineering Outstanding MPhil Thesis Award in 2014 for the work on energy general scheduling.
• Prof. Chen's paper on online algorithm for energy efficient crowdsourced demand response was a Best Paper Award Candidate on ACM e-Energy 2016 (3 in total).
• His paper on energy-efficient trucking was also a Best Paper Award Candidate on ACM e-Energy 2016 (3 in total).
• He also received ACM Recognition of Service Award, 2017, for contribution to research community, in particular for serving as General Chair of ACM e-Energy 2017. 
• CUHK Young Researcher Award, 2013

Prof. Jianwei HUANG 

• IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2015-2016.
• His paper published in IEEE ICC 2017 was a Best Paper Award Finalist.
• He also obtained the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science, 2016 (This award is based on his past high impact research papers, including those on smart grid economics.
• IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2015 – 2018 (He has been renewed for the second term of the Distinguished lecturer (2017-2018), due to his past research record and invited talk record, including those related to smart grid economics.)  

Prof. Angela Yingjun ZHANG

• IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer 2018-19

• Fellow, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2016

Prof. Zhao XU 

• An heuristic optimal power flow algorithm entitled by the team of Prof. Zhao Xu has been selected as one of the five best algorithms for solving the complicated optimal power flow problem in power system operation in the IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (27 - 31 July 2014) in Washington DC, USA.
• The paper titled "A Hybrid Approach for k-way Partitions in Smart Grid based on Laplacian Spectrum and Self-Organizing Map" by the PhD student Mr Jia Youwei of Prof. Zhao Xu has been awarded as Third Prize in 2014 IEEE Hong Kong Student Paper Contest. 
• The conference paper "Impacts of Large-scale Photovoltaic Generation Penetration on Power System Spinning Reserve Allocation" (J. Zhao, C. Wan, Z. Xu) obtained one of the Best Conference Papers submitted to the 2016 Power & Energy Society General Meeting, IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), Boston, July 2016. 
• 2017年度高等學校科學研究優秀成果獎(科學技術) 一等獎