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HKU Faculty of Engineering concludes successful "Mainland Scholar Series" with three insightful seminars and the signing of strategic MOU

Sep 30, 2025

The Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) successfully concluded the August edition of its "Mainland Scholar Series" (華夏學術前沿), a new initiative aimed at promoting academic collaboration...
HKU hosts 25^th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference Gathers over 400 Experts for Cutting-Edge Interdisciplinary Exchange in Quantum Science

Sep 30, 2025

The 25th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS’25) successfully concluded on 8 August, following five days of vibrant exchange at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Held for the first time...
"Global soil antibiotic resistance genes are associated with increasing risk and connectivity to human resistome", a paper in Nature Communications

Sep 30, 2025

Professor Tong Zhang from the Department of Civil Engineering and his team worked on the research for the topic “Global soil antibiotic resistance genes are associated with increasing risk and connectivity...
“Ecological connectivity of genomic markers of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli in Hong Kong", a paper in Nature Communications

Sep 30, 2025

Professor Tong Zhang from the Department of Civil Engineering and his team worked on the research for the topic “Ecological connectivity of genomic markers of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli...
"Quantifying Electron and Ion Transfers in Contact Electrification with Ionomers", a paper in Advanced Functional Materials

Sep 30, 2025

Professor Dong-Myeong Shin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and his team, worked on the research for the topic “Quantifying Electron and Ion Transfers in Contact Electrification with Ionomers”....
"Topology optimization of random memristors for input-aware dynamic SNN", a paper in Science Advances

Sep 30, 2025

Professor Xiaojuan Qi from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and her team, worked on the research for the topic “Topology optimization of random memristors for input-aware dynamic...
“Strong Crystalline Thermal Insulation Induced by Extended Antibonding States", a paper in Nature Communications

Sep 29, 2025

Professor Yue Chen from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and his team worked on the research for the topic “Strong Crystalline Thermal Insulation Induced by Extended Antibonding States”. The research...
"Resistive memory-based zero-shot liquid state machine for multimodal event data learning", a paper in Nature Computational Science

Aug 29, 2025

Professor Xiaojuan Qi from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and her team, worked on the research for the topic “Resistive memory-based zero-shot liquid state machine for multimodal...
Student achievements

Aug 29, 2025

a. CDS FinTech Student Achieves Champion in InnoFamily Award’s Grand Final Miss Yi Yeung Yau, a Year 4 FinTech student at the School of Computing & Data Science (CDS), has been crowned champion in this...
Staff achievements

Aug 29, 2025

a. Professor Zhiyi Huang awarded the RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) 2025/26 Professor Zhiyi Huang from the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Data Science, has been awarded the...

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