Past News & Events

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  Intelligent crowdsourcing for the age of Big Data

  by Dr. Reynold Cheng, Computer Science

  Dec 29, 2015

  In the “Era of Big Data”, an extremely large amount of information is created every day, revolutionizing science and technology, governments, economy, and international development. One important source...
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  Prof. James Lam as one of the nine HKU academics named amongst the world’s most highly cited researchers

  Dec 25, 2015

  Nine academics of HKU have been named by Thomson Reuters in the list of “Highly Cited Researchers 2015” among the world’s top researchers whose work have been highly cited by fellow academics and are...
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  1^st Place IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society

  Dec 20, 2015

  The IEEE Power Electronics Society has honored Professor Ron Hui, Dr. Wenxing Zhong and Dr. Chi Kwan Lee with the 1st Place IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Award for their article entitled: “A Critical...
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  Grows cartilage tissues out of your own cells

  Dec 17, 2015

  A University of Hong Kong research team, led by Dr Barbara Chan, Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed a new cartilage regeneration technology to grow cartilage...
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  2015 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

  Dec 15, 2015

  Dr. Kaibin Huang received the 2015 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award for his following paper: “Enabling Wireless Power Transfer in Cellular Networks: Architecture, Modeling and Deployment”...
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  33 Engineering students received awards at the Graduate School Award Presentation Ceremony

  Dec 13, 2015

  Engineering recipients of the awards for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student (2013-14) Miss CHENG Bing Qing (MPhil) Department of Mechanical Engineering Thesis Title: Computer Simulations of Crystal...
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  Staff promotion

  Dec 11, 2015

  Congratulations to the following staff on their promotions: Associate Professor to Professor Prof. Quentin Z. Q. YUE from Department of Civil Engineering Assistant Professor to Associate Professor Dr....
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  Building sanitation facilities for Tan Hung Secondary School in Vietnam

  by Dr. Ryan Wong, Civil Engineering

  Dec 8, 2015

  Project Mingde is a charity project to build schools and facilities in underprivileged areas initiated by the Department of Civil Engineering. It aims to provide education opportunities for children in...
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  HKU Engineering won three Paper Awards for 2015 HKIE

  Dec 5, 2015

  Mr. Daniel T.W. Looi of Civil Engineering & Ms Ya-Huei Chang of Mechanical Engineering won the HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers / Researchers, while Dr. K.H. Lam got the HKIE Best Transactions...
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  William Mong Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Jean Ponce

  Image and Video Understanding with Little or No Supervision

  Dec 2, 2015

  Professor Jean Ponce gave a lecture on December 2, 2015, titled "Image and Video Understanding with Little or No Supervision". Professor Ponce started with addressing the problem of understanding the...