Students from USTC along with HK Student Chapter members gathered for the IEEE SSCS USTC Student Chapter opening ceremony and seminars. Dr. Dong Hun Shin gave an EMX training at HKUST. Prof. Nan Sun presented advanced ADC design techniques at HKUST. The lecture was attended by approximately 50 people and was followed by a Q&A session. The SSCS HK Student Chapter participated in the IEEE University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) SSCS Student Chapter opening ceremony and seminars on 15 January 2018. Prof. C. Patrick Yue, advisor of the HK Student Chapter, gave a talk on recent developments in visible light communication, applications and system-on-chip (SoC) design. He presented two advanced visible light communi- Prof. C. Patrick Yue, advisor, HK Student Chapter, discussed recent developments in visible light cation (VLC) modulator SoCs. The communication, applications, and SoC design. first was an IEEE 802.15.7 PHY-I standard-compliant VLC transmitter. The demonstrated the first fully integrated The HK Student Chapter collabosecond was an active matrix light-emitVLC transmitter SoC compliant with the rated with USTC and SYSU Student ting diode (LED) microdisplay driver SoC IEEE 802.15.7 standard embedded with a Chapters to organize joint activiwith embedded VLC function. The work built-in 8-W LED driver. ties. The aim is to help grow other IEEE SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS MAGAZINE S p r i n g 2 0 18 71