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Dr Cui Heming receives Blockchain Funding Award from Huawei Innovation Research Program (HIRP) FLAGSHIP

Sep 6, 2018

Dr Cui Heming received an award of HK$2.18M from the Huawei Innovation Research Program (HIRP) FLAGSHIP 2018 with his proposal “A Blockchain-powered, Trustworthy Internet Layer (System) and its Decentralized...
Dr Anderson Shum is selected as the New Innovators in NANOMED 2018

Aug 28, 2018

Dr Anderson Shum of Department of Mechanical Engineering is selected as the New Innovators in NANOMED 2018. The IEEE International Conference on Nano/Molecular Medicine and Engineering (IEEE NANOMED)...
Dr R. Stanley Williams gives a distinguished seminar on “New Materials, Devices, Physics and Brain-Inspired Architectures for Computing”

Aug 21, 2018

Dr R. Stanley Williams gives a seminar on “New Materials, Devices, Physics and Brain-Inspired Architectures for Computing” on August 21, 2018. Dr R. Stanley Williams was recently retired from his position...
Dr Li Ping receives Young Scientist Awards in two different events

Jul 30, 2018

Dr Li Ping, Research Assistant Professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, received the Young Scientist Award at the 2018 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society...
HKU Engineering and Medicine collaborate and develop a real-time ultraflexible sensor that makes inflammation testing and curing 30 times faster

Jul 5, 2018

Recently, a University of Hong Kong research team led by Dr Paddy Chan Kwok-leung of the Mechanical Engineering Department, in collaboration with Professor Gilberto Leung Ka-kit (Tsang Wing-Hing Professor...
HKU scholar Professor Ed X. Wu receives the 12^th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize by the CAE

Jul 4, 2018

Professor Ed X. Wu, Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Lam Woo Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, received the 12th Guanghua Engineering...
IMSE co-organizes International Symposium on STEM Education

Jun 22, 2018

Group photo. The University of Hong Kong held the 2018 International Symposium on STEM Education from 22 to 24 June 2018. This symposium was jointly organized by HKU Academy for the Talented, Department...
HKU AI team wins “Facebook Low Resource Neural Machine Translation Award”

Jun 13, 2018

An HKU team led by Professor Victor Li On-Kwok, Chair of Information Engineering and Cheng Yu Tung Professor in Sustainable Development in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE)...
World’s first intra-operative MRI-guided robot for bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery

Jun 13, 2018

A HKU Mechanical Engineering team led by Dr. Kwok Ka-wai recently designed the first neurosurgical robotic system capable of performing bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery inside a magnetic resonance...
Future robots need no motors HKU Engineering invents world’s first nickel-hydroxide actuating material that can be triggered by both light and electricity

May 30, 2018

A mechanical engineering team led by Professor Alfonso Ngan Hing-wan, Chair Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, and Kingboard Professor in Materials Engineering, published an article in Science...

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