Past News & Events

All News & Events

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  Best Student Paper Award (DICTA 2015)

  Nov 30, 2015

  Mr Peter Zhang Boyi (PhD student supervised by Prof YS Hung) has received the Best Student Paper Award for the paper entitled “Non-Rigid Structure from Motion through Estimation of Blend Shapes”
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  First metallic 3D microprinting in Asia Pacific

  by Dr. Anderson Shum, Mechanical Engineering

  Nov 23, 2015

  Additive manufacturing, also popularly known as 3D printing, is becoming increasingly popular not only as a research tool, but also as a teaching tool and even a commodity. Modern 3D printers can easily...
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  ITB Secretary meeting our researchers

  Nov 18, 2015

  On November 11, 2015, Mr. Nicholas Yang, JP, the newly appointed Secretary for Innovation and Technology, visited the Faculty to understand how the University drives innovative and impactful research...
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  e-Learning seminars for Chengdu and Sichuan schools

  Nov 6, 2015

  Dr. Wilton Fok was invited by the University of Electronics of Science and Technology of China (UESTC) to deliver a talk on “e-Learning New Development” and demonstrated how HKU teachers and students...
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  Mingde Interview with Professor Peter Mathieson

  Nov 2, 2015

  By POON Ching - BEng(CivE) II YU Sea Ki, Victoria & NG Tsz Wai, Jason - BEng I Following Vice Chancellor Professor Peter Mathieson’s participation in our 10 th Anniversary Guangxi trip, an interview organized...
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  Dr. Giulio Chiribella joins the Department of Computer Science

  Oct 30, 2015

  Dr. Giulio Chiribella joined in August 2015 as an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of The University of Hong Kong. A physicist by training, he obtained his PhD in 2007 from the...
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  Highly compressed methane gas hypothesized for causing earthquakes

  by Prof. Quentin Yue, Civil Engineering

  Oct 5, 2015

  Earthquakes occur every day. A damaging earthquake occurs every month and/or every year. It can suddenly release a large to extremely large amount of kinetic energy within a few tens to two hundreds seconds...
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  Converting low-grade heat into electricity

  by Dr. S P Feng, Mechanical Engineering

  Sep 30, 2015

  Assistant Professor at HKU’s Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr. Tony Shien-Ping Feng says the “thermal-charging” electrochemical device that combines low-grade heat conversion and charge storage can...
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  Economic success generated from innovation science

  Sep 23, 2015

  Physics tells us that the energy carried by the wind is a cube function of the wind speed. This physics-based relationship illustrates that changes in a single variable (wind speed) significantly impact...
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  Tri-party collaboration on upper torso humanoid

  Sep 21, 2015

  The research team of Dr. Yong Hua Chen, Prof. James Lam and Dr. Michael Z. Q. Chen from Department of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded a major ITF project worth HK$8 million entitled Upper Torso...