Past News & Events

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  The Best Poster Award at the E-MRS 2019 Spring Meeting

  May 31, 2019

  Sun Haoran, a final-year PhD student supervised by Professor Min Wang of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, won the Best Poster Award at the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2019 Spring...
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  Modularisation for Modernisation: A Strategy Paper Rethinking Hong Kong Construction

  May 28, 2019
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  Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges of the Water Energy Nexus

  William Mong Distinguished Lecture by Professor Pedro J.J. Alvarez

  May 27, 2019

  Professor Pedro J.J. Alvarez from Rice University, gave a lecture on May 27, 2019 titled “Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges...
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  “Dark-sky-friendly Lighting Fixture STEM Competition" to raise public awareness of the severe light pollution problem in Hong Kong

  May 26, 2019

  The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering jointly organised the "Dark-sky-friendly Lighting Fixture STEM Competition" with HKU Department of Physics, the Ho Koon Nature Education cum Astronomical...
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  Celebrating the achievement of HKU teams at renowned competitions on innovation and technology

  May 24, 2019
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  “Best Paper Award” at the International Modular and Offsite Construction Summit

  May 24, 2019

  (From left) Dr Niu Sanyuan, Dr Wei Pan and Miss Yang Yi were delighted to receive the Best Paper Award at the MOC Summit 2019, a distinguished conference in the world. Dr Niu Sanyuan, Miss Yang Yi and...
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  The Best Paper Award (Second Place) in the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'19) workshop on Surgical Robots

  May 24, 2019

  The team received the Best Paper Award (2nd place) for a paper entitled “Experimental Validation of Autonomous Motion Control with Standard Cardiac Electrophysiology Catheter”. Congratulations to Dr Kwok...
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  Most Creative Idea Award in SG:Digital Wonderland 2019

  May 23, 2019

  “RoboCoach” and “Lumino” were showcased in SG:Digital Wonderland 2019, the largest tech carnival in Singapore. Two engineering projects of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) were shortlisted as finalists...
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  Second runner-up in AI Driving Olympics at ICRA 2019

  May 22, 2019

  Among 192 competitors from all over the world and a majority of research teams, “HKU DuckieTown Team” formed by six engineering undergraduates seized the 2nd runner-up in the lane-following challenge...
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  The Best Tutorial Paper Award from IEEE Communication Society

  May 21, 2019

  Dr Kaibin Huang (2nd from the right) received the award during IEEE International Conference on Communications in Shanghai. Dr Kaibin Huang of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering received...