Brief introduction:

The antenna research team with the State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves (City University of Hong Kong) has made significant contributions in the development of antennas for modern wireless communications. Many of our inventions and pioneering designs have inspired antenna engineers worldwide, especially in bandwidth broadening techniques, transparent antennas, magneto-electric dipoles, etc. Our Beidou antennas for mobile terminals contributed to the rescue mission in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Some other inventions can be found in 5G base-station and smart phones. We are now engaging in on-chip antennas, beam steering devices and active phased array for 6G wireless communications.

About the Speaker:

Professor Chan Chi Hou is currently the Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of City University of Hong Kong. After receiving his bachelor and master degrees from the Ohio State University in 1981 and 1982, respectively, Professor Chan went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to study under the tutelage of Professor Raj Mittra. He received his PhD in 1987 and stayed at Illinois as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) for 2 years. Prior to joining CityU in 1996, he was a tenured Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Professor Chan is a Fellow of IEEE (2002), a recipient of the IEEE APS Harrington-Mittra Award in Computational Electromagnetics (2019) and Distinguished Alumni Award, ECE at UIUC (2019).

Brief introduction:

One of the PolyU’s developed sophisticated space instruments “Camera Pointing System”, on board the “Chang'e 3” Lander and "Chang'e 4" Lander, successfully deployed during the China's first Lunar Soft Landing Exploration Mission in 2013 and the human's historic Lunar Far-side Landing Mission in 2019 respectively to capture panorama images of the Moon landscape and movement of the rover “Yutu”. The remarkable stories behind them involved the ultimate technological challenges in multi-disciplinary engineering and sciences. Some of the challenges encountered and related inspiring solutions will be shared in this lecture.

About the Speaker:

Professor K. L. Yung is an Associate Head and Chair Professor of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his BSc in Electronic Engineering at Brighton University in 1975, MSc, DIC in Automatic Control Systems at Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, University of London in 1976, and PhD in Microprocessor Applications in Process Control at Plymouth University in 1985 in the United Kingdom and became a Chartered Engineer (C..Eng., MIEE) in 1982. After graduation, he worked in the United Kingdom for companies such as BOC Advanced Welding Co. Ltd., the British Ever Ready Group and the Cranfield Unit for Precision Engineering (CUPE). In 1986, he returned to Hong Kong to join the Hong Kong Productivity Council as Consultant and subsequently switched to academia to join the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has a wealth of experience in making sophisticated space tools for deep space exploration missions. These include Space Holinser Forceps for the MIR Space Station, the "Mars Rock Corer" for the European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission (2003), the "Soil Preparation System" for the Sino-Russian Phobos-Grunt Mission (2011), and advanced precision robotic systems for the China Lunar Exploration Missions (Chang’e 3, 4, 5 and 6) such as the Camera Pointing Systems (CPS) and Mars Exploration Mission (Tianwen-1), such as the Mars Surveillance Camera.