Research News | Faculty of Engineering, HKU

Ir Dr. Philip Pong elected as Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining

Mar 24, 2017

Ir Dr. Philip Pong was named Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (FIMMM) for his contribution in developing new types of sensors with nanomaterials and nanotechnology.

Less is More: A New Class of Optics with Zero Refractive Index for the Applications in Nanophotonics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quanum Entanglement

William Mong Distinguished Lecture by Professor Eric Mazur

Mar 24, 2017

Professor Eric Mazur, Area Dean of Applied Physics and Balkanski Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics of Harvard University, gave a lecture on March 24, 2017 titled “Less is More: A New Class of...

A possible way to solve Medication Errors

Mar 3, 2017

Have you ever suffered from the drug treatment even you are prescribed with the correct medications? One of the reasons is – Medication Errors In the process of a drug treatment, healthcare providers...

Redefining the Drug Discovery Pathway - From Drug Candidate Search to Phenotypic Personalized Medicine (PPM)

William Mong Distinguished Lecture by Professor Chih-Ming Ho

Mar 1, 2017

Professor Chih-Ming Ho, Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair Professor at University of California at Los Angeles, gave a lecture on March 1, 2017 titled “Redefining the Drug Discovery Pathway - From Drug Candidate...

Prof. David Hill selected as new fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences

Feb 20, 2017

Prof. Hill is also a member of The Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Two HKU graduates received the Croucher Fellowship 2016 for postdoctoral research at MIT and CalTech

Feb 16, 2017

Dr. Christopher Lee received the Croucher Fellowship Award in December 2016 Dr. Christopher H. T. Lee , our alumni, has recently received the Croucher Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research in...

HKU scientists utilise innovative neuroimaging approach to unravel complex brain networks

Jan 26, 2017

The team has successfully manipulated two pioneering technologies: optogenetics and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), for investigation of the dynamics underlying brain activity propagation....

Best Poster Award of TRS Workshop 2016

Jan 20, 2017

Mr. Hong Zhang, Ph.D. student of Prof. Wallace Choy has received the Best Poster Award of TRS Workshop on Smart Materials for Solar Energy Harvesting 2016. The paper “Room-temperature Solution-Processed...

Research grant awards

Jan 13, 2017

In 2016/17, 18 proposals supported for RGC Collaborative Research Fund, in which 8 are from HKU, and 3 are from Faculty of Engineering. Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2016/17 Professor E.X. Wu, Department...

HKU Engineering researchers recognized for high numbers of citations

Jan 5, 2017

Ten HKU researchers have been named among the most highly cited researchers in the world by Clarivate Analytics, the former Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, in their Highly...