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HKU-ECE PhD Students Win the Display Young Leader Recognition and the Display Future Star Cup Innovation Achievement Competition at SID ICDT 2026
We are excited to celebrate our research postgraduate (PhD) students, Mr. Wenbin ZHOU and Mr. Li LIAO, both supervised by Prof. Evan Yifan PENG, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU-ECE),...
HKU EEEA 20th Anniversary Dinner
On March 1, 2026, the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Association (EEEA) of The University of Hong Kong successfully hosted the EEEA 20th Anniversary Dinner, with the support of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (HKU-ECE)....
New Chapter of HKU-EEE with New Name “Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering” (HKU-ECE) (電機與計算機工程系)
The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (HKU-EEE) has now been rebranded as the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (HKU-ECE) (電機與計算機工程系). This milestone reflects our evolving academic and research focus, aligning with...
HKU-ECE K-Bot Team Wins Gold and Silver Medals at 51st International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva
We are thrilled to announce that the research team from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded Gold Medal and Silver Medal in the 51st International Exhibition of Inventions at Geneva, which is the largest global...
“Generalizable Morphological Profiling of Cells by Interpretable Unsupervised Learning”, a Paper in Nature Communications
Professor Kevin K. TSIA from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and his team, worked on the research for the topic “Generalizable morphological profiling of cells by interpretable unsupervised learning”. The research findings...
HKU Engineering and Beijing Institute of Technology Sign Framework MOU for Early PhD Admission during Delegation Visit
The Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) have signed a Framework Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Early PhD Admission. This agreement establishes a structured pathway for enhanced...
HKU-ECE-led Team Develops Multiplane Compressive Imaging with Axial-coded Multiphoton Microscopy (Published in Advanced Photonics)
Professor Kenneth K. Y. WONG and Professor Kevin K. TSIA from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and their team, along with collaborators from other universities, worked on the research for the topic “Multiplane compressive...
Breakthrough in Brain-wide Resting-state fMRI Network Dynamics Elicited by Activation of Single Thalamic Input (Published in Nature Communications)
Professor Ed X. WU from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and his team, worked on the research for the topic “Brain-wide resting-state fMRI network dynamics elicited by activation of single thalamic input”. The research findings...
Breakthrough in Cryogenic Neuromorphic Computing based on Wide Bandgap Semiconductor (Published in Nature Communications)
An engineering research team from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), led by Professor Yuhao ZHANG and Mr. Xin YANG, has...
Breakthrough in Ultrawide-Bandgap Semiconductors for Power Electronics (Published in Nature Communications and IEDM, Covered by Nature Electronics)
An engineering research team from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC) at The University of Hong Kong, led by Professor Yuhao ZHANG, in collaboration with...
William Mong Distinguished Lecture “Decarbonise Energy Systems”
The Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) successfully hosted the William Mong Distinguished Lecture titled “Decarbonising Our Energy Systems” on February 6, 2026. The lecture was coordinated by Professor Victor Li, Department...
HKU-ECE PhD Students Win Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at IEEE VR 2026
We are excited to celebrate our research postgraduate (PhD) students, Mr. Hyunmin BAN and Mr. Wenbin ZHOU, both supervised by Prof. Evan Yifan PENG, from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Hong Kong...
Professor Shiming ZHANG’s Hydrogel Transistor Research Named Among China’s Top 10 Scientific Achievements in 2025
The department is proud to announce that Professor Shiming ZHANG and the Wearable, Intelligent, and Soft Electronics (WISE) research group from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Hong Kong have been...
HKU’s Ultra-Thin Diamond Fabrication Technology Named Among China’s Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2025
The department is pleased to announce that Professor Zhiqin CHU of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (HKUECE) and Professor Yuan LIN of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong...
HKU Engineering Marks Milestone with MSc Student Commons Opening
The Faculty of Engineering celebrated the official opening of the MSc Student Commons, marking a new milestone in enhancing support for taught postgraduate (TPG) students of HKU Engineering. Located on the 6th and 8th floors of Pacific Plaza, the...
HKU Engineering Achieve Outstanding Results in Securing Funding under Multiple Prestigious Research Schemes
Our Faculty Members from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Hong Kong have achieved outstanding results in securing funding from multiple prestigious research schemes. The funded projects address cutting-edge...
HKU-ECE-led Team Develops Privacy-Preserving System for Secure Edge Data Analysis 香港大學團隊研發隱私保護系統 實現安全邊緣數據分析
Edge computing devices—from wearable health monitors to industrial sensors—face a critical security challenge: how to protect sensitive data while maintaining efficient on-device processing. Recent incidents have demonstrated how attackers could...
Professor Felix F. Wu Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
The Department is honoured to announce that Professor Felix F. WU, Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of...
Professor Ngai WONG Interview: Intelligent Technology Accelerates Business Opportunities 黃毅教授專訪：智能科技助力商機拓展
Professor Ngai WONG from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Hong Kong recently participated in an interview with the Hong Kong Government’s online news platform (news.gov.hk) to share his and his team’s...
Professor Edith NGAI Named 2025 ACM Distinguished Member
Professor Edith Cheuk Han Ngai of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has been named a 2025 ACM Distinguished Member by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing...
Experiential Workshop on AI and Wireless Charging for Diocesan Boys’ School
On January 13, 2026, a delegation comprising forty students and three teachers from the Diocesan Boys’ School (DBS) visited The University of Hong Kong to participate in a hands-on workshop focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless...
HKU Engineering Scholar Professor Zhiqin CHU Honoured with Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) at the HKU Excellence Awards 2025
Congratulations to Professor Zhiqin CHU of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, who has been honoured with the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) at the HKU Excellence Awards 2025. This recognition...
Minister of the National Health Commission Leads Delegation to HKU to Exchange Interdisciplinary Medical Innovation and Research 國家衞生健康委員會主任一行訪問香港大學共同交流跨領域醫學創新科研
Dr. Haichao LEI, Minister of the National Health Commission (NHC) of the People’s Republic of China, led a delegation comprising representatives of the NHC, the Hong Kong and Macao Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and...
Visiting Professor Wolfgang Heidrich Being Elected as ACM Fellow
We are thrilled to see that our Visiting Professor Prof. Wolfgang Heidrich, a world-leading researcher in Computer Graphics & Computational Imaging, has recently been awarded as an ACM Fellow (Association for Computing Machinery). This is ACM's...
HKU Photonics Team Develops an Axially Encoded Strategy for Breaking the Microscopy Speed Bottleneck
^Powered by the Arbitrary Illumination Microscopy with Encoded Depth (AIMED) technique, axial encoding enables simultaneous multiplexing of multiple depth layers, allowing volumetric information to be reconstructed from substantially fewer scans...