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Protecting public health through study of wastewater

Dec 30, 2024

Professor Tong Zhang, Chair Professor (Environmental Engineering) of Department of Civil Engineering The COVID-19 pandemic is over but researchers who spent days and nights, indeed months and years, helping...
"Reconﬁgurability-Encoded Hierarchical Rectiﬁers for Versatile 3D Liquid Manipulation”, a paper in Advanced Science

Dec 30, 2024

Professor Alan Cheng Hou Tsang of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and his student Jiaqi Miao have recently designed novel reconfigurable rectifers with magnetized microratchets for liquid manipulation....
"Ultra-permeable silk-based polymeric membranes for vacuum-driven nanofiltration", a paper in Nature Communications

Dec 30, 2024

Professor CY Tang from the Department of Civil Engineering and his team worked on the research for the topic “Ultra-permeable silk-based polymeric membranes for vacuum-driven nanofiltration”. The research...
“Scalable production of ultraflat and ultraflexible diamond membrane”, a paper in Nature

Dec 30, 2024

Professor Zhiqi Chu of the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Professor Yuan Lin of the Department of Mechanical Engineering led a research team and have developed a groundbreaking...
William Mong Distinguished Lecture: From Bench to Business: Innovations in Electrochemical technology for the Low Carbon Energy Transition

Dec 30, 2024

Professor Nigel Brandon OBE FREng FRS, Chair in Sustainable Development in Energy and Dean of Engineering at Imperial College London, delivered the William Mong Distinguished Lecture titled “From Bench...
William Mong Distinguished Lecture: Seeing is Understanding: Next Generation Chemical Imaging for Super-Fast Functional Analyses of Microbiomes

Dec 30, 2024

Professor Michael Wagner, full professor of Microbial Ecology at the University of Vienna and a Distinguished Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, delivered the William Mong Distinguished Lecture...
Inno Wing Activities

Dec 30, 2024

Inno Wing Carnival The exciting annual event of Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing – Inno Wing Carnival – was held on November 29 this year, bringing together the HKU community to celebrate creativity and innovation....
Professor Hailong Ye awarded the Leung Cheuk Tong Outstanding Young Professorship

Dec 30, 2024

Professor Hailong Ye from the Department of Civil Engineering was awarded the Leung Cheuk Tong Outstanding Young Professorship. This recognition is a testament to Professor Ye's dedication and contributions...
Professor Tong Zhang's paper selected as the first joint winner in the 2023 Environmental Science and Technology Best Paper Awards

Dec 30, 2024

Professor Tong Zhang from the Department of Civil Engineering has been awarded the first joint winner in the category “Environmental Science” in the 2023 Environmental Science and Technology Best Paper...
7 Faculty members listed in Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers 2024

Dec 29, 2024

Among the fifty-three academics of the University of Hong Kong being named “Highly Cited Researchers of 2024” by Clarivate Analytics, seven were from the Faculty of Engineering. They are: Category: Computer...

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