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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...
Tri-party collaboration on upper torso humanoid

Sep 21, 2015

The research team of Dr. Yong Hua Chen, Prof. James Lam and Dr. Michael Z. Q. Chen from Department of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded a major ITF project worth HK$8 million entitled Upper Torso...
Summer research interns from Mainland

Sep 3, 2015

More than 30 university students from 11 institutions* of Mainland China participated in the Summer Research Internship Programme organized by the Department of Computer Science...
Robotics researchers meeting guests from Greater China

Aug 31, 2015

Chinese Association of Science and Technology On August 18, 2015, a delegation led by Dr. Shang Yong (尚勇), Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Secretary (中國科協常務副主席、書記處第一書記) of the Chinese Association...
"imseCAVE" - Virtual reality for the industry

Jul 19, 2015

HKU Engineering creates innovative “imseCAVE” - a high performance, low cost, virtual environment for industrial applications and training

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