Prof. Wing-Kin Ma from the Department of Electronic Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2017 for his contributions to optimization in signal processing and communications. \u00a0IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honour and an important career achievement.\u00a0 The total number of recipients each year does not exceed 0.1% of the total voting IEEE membership.\u00a0 So far, a total of 28 professors in CUHK have been conferred such recognition including Professor Ma.<\/p>\r\n
Research in signal processing, communications, optimization and remote sensing are important powerhouses behind many amazing technologies, like smartphones we use every day, and how we can discover something we cannot see with the human eye in biomedical images or in a Mars image. \u00a0Professor Ma is well recognized for his fundamental contributions to the above areas and he has tackled a number of key problems, such as developing high-performance multi-in multi-out (MIMO) detection solutions for wireless communications (a key technology for Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G and more); interference management and resource optimization in a complex mobile network (e.g., 4G and 5G networks); matrix factorization techniques that can be used to separate different parts of tissues in a biomedical image, or tell which materials a remote sensing picture contains under hyperspectral imaging technology, to name a few. \u00a0At the heart of these seemingly different developments is optimization\u2014think of real-life problems such as finance and logistics management, which optimization can solve and give us the best answers to.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
Professor Ma\u2019s work is highly influential. \u00a0He has about 7,000 citations in Google Scholar, about 3,200 citations in Web of Science, and 8 papers that have been listed as Highly-Cited Papers by Essential Science Indicators (the top 1% of the academic field of engineering, simply speaking). \u00a0He received the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Magazine<\/em> Best Paper Award in 2015 and IEEE Signal Processing Letters<\/em> Best Paper Award in 2016. \u00a0Concerning student mentoring, two of his students received best student paper awards in ICASSP, the top signal processing conference. \u00a0One received the Postgraduate Research Output Award by CUHK and one is now a faculty member in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and is in the competitive programme of \u20181000 Talents Program for Young Professionals\u2019 in China.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n About IEEE<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n The IEEE is the world's largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity, with more than 430,000 members in over 160 countries.\u00a0 IEEE Fellowship is one of the most prestigious honours of the Institute, and conferred upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.\u00a0<\/p>","show_as_achievement":true,"achievement_category":["staff"],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":null,"video_source":"","video_file":"","add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":"2456","photos_original":[{"photo":"58a6ab68222b1.jpg","caption":"Prof. Wing-Kin Ma"}],"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87484,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/49434\/revisions\/87484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}