Two PhD students from Electronic and Computer Engineering won the First and Third Prizes respectively in the Student Paper Contest of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC 2010). The First Prize recipient, Jing Xiaocheng, won with his paper “Soft-Start Circuit with Duty Ratio Controlled Voltage Clamping and Adaptive Sizing Technique for Integrated DC-DC Converters”. He is supervised by Prof Philip Mok. The Third Prize recipient, Zhan Chenchang, had his paper on “Output-Capacitor-Free Adaptively Biased Low-Dropout Regulators”. His supervisor is Prof Wing Hung Ki. The conference was held in Hong Kong in December 2010.