Emergency Response Unit (ERU)
Students encountering any special circumstances can contact the ERU through Professor Eric Chui, Dean of Students, and the Student Development Services team at enquiry.eru@cityu.edu.hk. The ERU will continue to communicate directly with staff and students and refer enquiries to the corresponding departments for appropriate assistance. In emergency situations, staff and students may call our 24-hour emergency hotline: 3442 8888. The Chairmen of the ERU are Professor Horace Ip Ho-shing, Vice-President (Student Affairs), and Mr Sunny Lee Wai-kwong, Vice-President (Administration).
New Faculty Orientation 2019
A welcoming lunch, talks by senior faculty, and an evening reception will greet new faculty at the orientation on 6 September. Following opening remarks by Professor Way Kuo, University President, there will be sessions for new hires titled “Being Successful and Engaged at CityU”, “Teaching and Learning, and Quality Assurance at CityU”, “Research and Postgraduate Studies at CityU”, and “SGS, PhD matters and Mainland Joint PhD schemes”. Attending the evening reception will be department heads, deans, faculty mentor and senior management.
Sexual harassment
The University is committed to providing students and staff with a learning and working environment that is free from sexual harassment. In accordance with the Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures of the University, one of the tasks of the Committee Against Sexual Harassment (CASH) is to provide support for the promotion of greater awareness about the Policy. Thus CASH would like to invite the CityU community to become familiar with the Policy, and complete both the online training on preventing sexual harassment provided by the University and by the Equal Opportunities Commission. In addition, a poster display entitled “Creating a Sexual Harassment-Free Campus” will be on show in the Blue Zone, Floor 4, YEUNG, until 6 September.
Kudos
Mr Ip Yuk-yiu, Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Creative Media (SCM), was named Artist of the Year (Media Arts); and Ms Carla Chan Ho-choi, alumna of SCM, received the award for Young Artist (Media Arts). Organised by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards offer formal recognition to arts practitioners, groups and organisations that have made significant contributions to the arts development in Hong Kong.
PhD student Chen Jianqi of the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) won the Guan Zhao-Zhi Award 2019 at the 38th Chinese Control Conference (CCC 2019) with his paper “Exact Computation of Delay Margin by PID Control: It Suffices to Solve a Unimodal Problem!”, which was supervised by Chair Professor Chen Jie of EE. There were more than 2,400 submissions to CCC 2019. Chen Jianqi was selected for the award after five rounds of intense evaluations by the Guan Zhao-Zhi Award Committee.
Chair Professor Henry Chung Shu-hung of the Department of Electrical Engineering won the 2019 Natural Science Prize of Shanghai (Second Class) by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government for his project “Research into Advanced Inverter Topologies for Renewable Energy Generation and Energy Storage Integration into AC Grid”. The award, one of the six award categories under Shanghai Science and Technology Award 2019, recognises outstanding basic or applied research in science and technology.