The Sixth Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of International Telecommunications Society (ITS2001) was the premier telecommunications event in the Asia-Pacific region. It attracted over 150 top-flight researchers, industry leaders and policy makers from across Asia, Australia, Europe and the US.
 

The Bernoulli Society East Asia & Pacific Regional Conference (Dec 2003) attracted over 150 leading experts and practitioners. The Conference explored research opportunities about Bayesian statistics, bioinformatics, industrial statistics, levy processes, limit theorems, nonparametrics, MCMS, probability algorithms, probability theory, stochastic analysis, time series and survival analysis.
 

Professor Vint G. Cerf, the bona fide “Father of the Internet”, gave a lecture entitled “A glimpse into the future of the Internet” on 17 September 2004. Professor Cerf’s presence attracted enormous interest among students and faculty members. He is the co-designer of TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. Among his many awards and accolades, he received the US National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton in 1997.
 

The Department organized a Workshop on Statistics and Probability (Jan 2005).
 

The Department hosted the “Hong Kong Mobility Roundtable” in June 2005 on the theme of “Mobile Communications in Knowledge Society”. The event provided a forum for research exchange and facilitated collaboration among global researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the field of mobile communication and computing. Over 150 delegates from all over the world participated in the roundtable.
 

The Department is a co-organizer of the 16th Biennial Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS 2006). It will be hosted by the China Institute of Communications and the Beijing University of Post & Telecommunications in Beijing in June 2006. The Conference will give researchers, industry practitioners and policy makers a timely opportunity to identify pressing new issues, share research results, form new partnerships and identify new approaches to address outstanding issues. Professor Xu Yan of the Department is a Member of the Board of Directors of ITS.