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1^st Place IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society

Dec 20, 2015

The IEEE Power Electronics Society has honored Professor Ron Hui, Dr. Wenxing Zhong and Dr. Chi Kwan Lee with the 1st Place IEEE Transactions Prize Paper Award for their article entitled: “A Critical...
Grows cartilage tissues out of your own cells

Dec 17, 2015

A University of Hong Kong research team, led by Dr Barbara Chan, Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has developed a new cartilage regeneration technology to grow cartilage...
2015 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award

Dec 15, 2015

Dr. Kaibin Huang received the 2015 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award for his following paper: “Enabling Wireless Power Transfer in Cellular Networks: Architecture, Modeling and Deployment”...
HKU Engineering won three Paper Awards for 2015 HKIE

Dec 5, 2015

Mr. Daniel T.W. Looi of Civil Engineering & Ms Ya-Huei Chang of Mechanical Engineering won the HKIE Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers / Researchers, while Dr. K.H. Lam got the HKIE Best Transactions...
William Mong Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Jean Ponce

Image and Video Understanding with Little or No Supervision

Dec 2, 2015

Professor Jean Ponce gave a lecture on December 2, 2015, titled "Image and Video Understanding with Little or No Supervision". Professor Ponce started with addressing the problem of understanding the...
First metallic 3D microprinting in Asia Pacific

by Dr. Anderson Shum, Mechanical Engineering

Nov 23, 2015

Additive manufacturing, also popularly known as 3D printing, is becoming increasingly popular not only as a research tool, but also as a teaching tool and even a commodity. Modern 3D printers can easily...
ITB Secretary meeting our researchers

Nov 18, 2015

On November 11, 2015, Mr. Nicholas Yang, JP, the newly appointed Secretary for Innovation and Technology, visited the Faculty to understand how the University drives innovative and impactful research...
Highly compressed methane gas hypothesized for causing earthquakes

by Prof. Quentin Yue, Civil Engineering

Oct 5, 2015

Earthquakes occur every day. A damaging earthquake occurs every month and/or every year. It can suddenly release a large to extremely large amount of kinetic energy within a few tens to two hundreds seconds...
Converting low-grade heat into electricity

by Dr. S P Feng, Mechanical Engineering

Sep 30, 2015

Assistant Professor at HKU’s Mechanical Engineering Department, Dr. Tony Shien-Ping Feng says the “thermal-charging” electrochemical device that combines low-grade heat conversion and charge storage can...
Economic success generated from innovation science

Sep 23, 2015

Physics tells us that the energy carried by the wind is a cube function of the wind speed. This physics-based relationship illustrates that changes in a single variable (wind speed) significantly impact...

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