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Dec 30, 2025

HKU Engineering research team led by Professor Tao Liu wins Best Paper Award at IET International Conference on APSCOM 2025 An engineering research team led by Professor Tao Liu, and Dr Zelin Liu (research...
HKU Engineering faculty members awarded multiple distinguished fellowships

Dec 30, 2025

Professor Yunhe Hou and Professor Han Wang named IEEE Fellows, Class of 2026 Professor Yunhe Hou and Professor Han Wang from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering have been elected as...
13 Faculty members named Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2025

Dec 30, 2025

Thirteen scholars from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong have been named to Clarivate Analytics' Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list. According to Clarivate Analytics, a total of...
Professor Kaibin Huang awarded Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2026

Dec 30, 2025

Professor Kaibin Huang, Philip K H Wong Wilson K L Wong Professor in Electrical Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at HKU, has been awarded the prestigious...
Inno Wing Activities

Dec 30, 2025

HKAE TechTalk Supported by the Innovation and Technology Commission of the HKSAR, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE) and HKU co-organise HKAE TechTalk Series for promoting the latest developments...
Mainland Scholar Series – Guest Lecture by SHU Academician Professor Zhang Tong-Yi

Dec 30, 2025

The Faculty of Engineering was delighted to host a delegation from the Materials Genome Institute of Shanghai University (SHU) on 27 November 2025, led by its Founding Dean, Professor Zhang Tong-Yi, an...
"Quantitative understanding of charge-transfer exciton diffusion in y-type acceptors for efficient organic solar cells", a paper in Advanced Functional Materials

Dec 30, 2025

Professor Philip C. Y. Chow from the Mechanical Engineering and his team worked on the research for the topic “Quantitative Understanding of Charge-Transfer Exciton Diffusion in Y-Type Acceptors for Efficient...
"ClairS-TO: a deep-learning method for long-read tumor-only somatic small variant calling", a paper in Nature Communications

Dec 30, 2025

Professor Ruibang Luo from the School of Computing and Data Science and his team worked on the research for the topic “ClairS-TO: a deep-learning method for long-read tumor-only somatic small variant...
"Scattering-enhanced light extraction for radiative thermal load mitigation in fluorescent films", a paper in Advanced Science

Dec 30, 2025

Professor Xiaobo Yin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and his team worked on the research for the topic “Scattering-Enhanced Light Extraction for Radiative Thermal Load Mitigation in Fluorescent...
“Increasing the dimensionality of transistors with hydrogels”, a paper featured on the cover of Science

Dec 30, 2025

Professor Shiming Zhang from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and his team worked on the research for the topic “Increasing the dimensionality of transistors with hydrogels”. The...

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