Research Interests
Research Programme
Awards
Research Grants
Invited Technical Talks
Publications
Team Members

Honours
 

  • Editor-in-Chief (Designated) of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II. This is the first time in the transaction’s 57 years history that someone in Asia has been given this position.
  • IEEE Fellow, for the contributions to the design of low-power high-performance digital filters.
  • Appointed by IEEE Awards Board as one of nine members of 2010 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology Committee to select the receipt(s) for this newly created Institute Awards. The Medal is one of the 18 Medals presented by the IEEE Board of Directors to recognize and identify the outstanding achievement and contributions for the work of engineers in the field of medicine and biology.
  • Prize Paper Award Subcommittee Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for selecting the 2007 IEEE VLSI Transactions Best Paper Award.

 

Awards
 

  • 2008 Multimedia Communications Best Paper Award from the IEEE Communication Society for the paper "Joint source-channel-authentication resource allocation and unequal authenticity protection for multimedia over wireless networks" in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol.9, No.4, June 2007, pp.837-850, with Z Li, QB Sun and CW Chen. The award recognizes outstanding work in the field of Multimedia Communications. The best paper is selected from any publication in an IEEE Communications Society’s journal/magazine or in the proceedings of an IEEE ComSoc sponsored conference/workshop/symposium in the two years preceding the award.
  • Best Paper Award, the 1996 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s Guillemin-Cauer Award for the paper “Frequency-response masking approach for digital filter design: complexity reduction via masking filter factorization” in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 2, Vol.41, No.8, pp.518-525, 1994, with Y.C. Lim. The Guillemin-Cauer Award is to recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems during the two calendar years preceding the award.
  • Winning the First Place with $300 cash in IEEE Region 10 2009 Undergraduate Paper Contest by Final Year Student, Ho Bing Kun, for  the paper "Low Power Design of a 16-Band Non-Uniform Filter Bank for Hearing Aid Application”.
  • Best Student Paper Award Received by M.Eng student Zhi Li at 2007 International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (Beijing, China, 2-5 July 2007) for the paper “Constructing secure content-dependent watermarking scheme using homomorphic encryption,” with Z Li, XL Zhu, and QB Sun.