1. http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk Welcome to the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering

2. The Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) Programmes offered: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)/Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Master of Science (MSc)/Postgraduate Diploma (PgD) Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electronic and Information Engineering Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Internet and Multimedia Technologies Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Information Technology (jointly offered with Department of Computing) Higher Diploma in Electronic and Information Engineering Higher Diploma in Multimedia and Multilingual Computing Higher Diploma in Internet Technology and e-Commerce (jointly offered with Department of Computing)

3. The Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) Number of Academic Staff -37 Number of Research Personnel -59 Number of Students - MPhil & PhD Students52 MSc & PgD Students124 BEngEIE & BScIMT Students503 HDEIE & HDMMC Students267

4. The Department of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) Teaching: Four Sections 1. Circuits and Microelectronics 2. Communications Engineering 3. Computer Engineering 4. Information Technology Research: Four Centres / Groups 1. Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing 2. Applied Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Research Group 3. Communications Research Group 4. Thin Film Optoelectronics Research Group

5. Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing Centre Director: Professor W.C. Siu(13 Staff Members) Full Spectrum of Research Work Fundamental studies on fast algorithms, transforms, high-performance DSP, Realization & ASIC Design Image Processing and Video Technologies Speech Recognition and Speaker Identification Coding & Pattern recognition Information transfer and storage Application of DSP to multimedia technologies Intelligent systems, Fuzzy logic & Neural networks Video Conferencing/Document Process... Digital & HDTV... Medical imaging... Wireless Video Phone, Wireless Networks.. Being the largest research centre in the EIE Department, the Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing is targeted to be a Major Research Centre in South East Asia in multimedia technologies.

6. The Applied Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Group has an impressive record of accomplishments. The works from members of this group have made important benchmarks in the area of nonlinear system research. Major Research Areas Power electronics circuits design Bifurcation analysis for practical systems Nonlinear and chaotic systems Chaos-based communication systems Time series analysis and biomedical applications Disease transmission modelling Sliding mode control implementation for power electronics URL: http://chaos.eie.polyu.edu.hk Applied Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Research Group Group Leader : Professor C.K. Michael Tse (6 Staff Members) Awards to Members IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Best Paper Award Best Poster Paper Award, Dynamics Days Europe Journal Editorships Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Associate Editor, International Journal of Systems Science Associate Editor, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guest Editor, Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing Guest Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions Recent Books

7. Main Topics of Research Wireless communications Electromagnetics Chaos-based spread-spectrum communications High Speed Networking Optical fiber communication systems Communications, especially mobile communications and networking, has experienced a phenomenal growth during the past two decades and this growth is projected to continue in the foreseeable future. The Group undertakes research in different areas of communications. Communications Research Group Group Leader: Professor Alex Wai(7 Staff Members)

8. The Thin Film and Optoelectronics Research Group focuses on applied experimental and theoretical research for the development of modern semiconductor optoelectronic devices. One of its major areas of investigation studies III-V nitride-based devices for applications such as light emitters, detectors, and modulators. Selected Current Projects Fabrication and characterization of GaN- based UV detectors and Light emitters Non-destructive measurement of longitudinal dispersion of an optical fiber Optimum design of dispersion profile of an optical communication system Realization of high-density information storage using ferroelectric thin films ~ End ~ Thin Film Optoelectronics Research Group Group Leader: Professor C. Surya(4 Staff Members)