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BEng(CE) student got the Best Student Paper Award and has been selected in the FYP+ competition
Our BEng CE year 4 student, Mr. Sidhant Gupta, got excellent results in his research and FYP. With the paper titled "Laser quadrat and photogrammetry based autonomous coral reef mapping ocean robot" which covered his research work in building an...
Team principal of Formula E’s DS Techeetah racing team sharing his experience in Motorsports with HKUR
Mr. Mark Preston is the team principal of Formula E's DS Techeetah racing team. He has been involved in the industry for 20+ years worked in the top tier of motorsports in teams such as Mclaren and Super Aguri F1 in Formula One. It is our great...
HKU and Tohoku University sign Agreement on Collaborations in Transformative AI and Robotics Technologies
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) signed an agreement with Tohoku University, Japan (Tohokudai) on 16 March, 2019 to collaborate on general academic exchange, as well as research of transformative artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics...
Microscale devices to monitor brain health & aid memory formation in Alzheimer’s patients | Ada Poon
Can we use electronics, other than drugs, to treat diseases? It’s possible!! Please have a look at the video from one of our distinguished alumni Ada Poon (BEng(EEE)1996), currently Stanford Professor, for her pioneer research on future medicine at...
A team MSc students awarded the Cyberport Creative Micro Fund for their AI motion video analysis project called Robocoach
EEE MSc students Ms. Carol Chen, Mr. Zhang Baoheng, Mr Oliver Xu Ao and Electrical Engineering graduate Mr. Louis Chan awarded the Cyberport Creative Micro Fund (CCMF) for the development of an AI motion video analysis project called Robocoach. A...
HKU team won in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2018 Competition
From left: Dr. V.W.L. Tam, Prof. K.T. Chau (Head of Dept.), Mr. Desmond Chi Ping Wong, Mr. Felix Kwong Yat Wong and Prof. E.Y. M. Lam Our BEng(CE) year 3 students Desmond Chi Ping Wong & Felix Kwong Yat Wong, together with another teammate from...
2018 Elected NAI Fellows
Prof. Ron S Y Hui has recently been named by the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI) as one of the NAI Fellows.
Newly Elevated IEEE Fellow
Dr. Lijun Jiang is newly conferred the IEEE Fellow for contributions to broadband computational electromagnetic methods. The IEEE Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of...
2018 Highly Cited Researchers
Congratulations to Professor Wallace C H Choy for being named by Clarivate Analytics in the list of “Highly Cited Researchers 2018” among the world’s top researchers. Fifteen HKU academics named amongst the world's most highly cited researchers....
ACES Fellow
Dr. Lijun JIANG has just been elevated as the ACES Fellow in the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). The grade of Fellow is bestowed by the Board of Directors (BoD) upon a person with exceptional achievements and outstanding...
Merit award in the HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition 2018
We are happy to learn that Mr. Li King Lok, our BEng CE graduate, just got the Merit award (i.e. outstanding prize) with the senior design project (aka FYP) titled “Design and Analysis of a Mesh Network based on LoRa” in the HKEIA Innovation &...
BEng (EE) student listed as one of the top 10 finalists in the INFINITI Engineering Academy for the Asia & Oceania region
Congratulations to our BEng(EE) year 4 student, Mr. Kenneth Ka Chun HUI, who successfully beaten over 12000 contestants and listed as one of the top 10 finalists in the Asia & Oceania region. Mr. Hui represented Hong Kong (and HKU) the Asia...
Class of 1998: 20th Anniversary Home-coming visit
The class of 1998 just had their home-coming celebration for their 20th graduation anniversary on 27 October 2018. Our alumni, together with their family, came back to their alma mater for a happy re-union. The group visited our PC Lab and Chi Wah...
Silver Award at the “The 4th Chinese College Students ‘Internet Plus’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition”
A team of our EEE research postgraduate (PhD) students Rong WANG, Haimi QIU and Min LI (supervised by Dr. L Jiang) received the Silver Award at the “The 4th Chinese College Students ‘Internet Plus’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in...
Champion of Student Paper Competition
Dr. L Jiang’s RPG student, Rong WANG, won the Champion of the Student Paper Competition (AP Session) at 2018 IEEE AP/MTT Postgraduate Conference held at Chinese University of Hong Kong Saturday, 3 November, 2018. The awarded paper is called...
Top 1% Scholars
Congratulations to our 13 EEE teaching staff, who have been recognized as the world’s Top 1% scholars. They are: Professor S C Chan Professor K T Chau Professor G Chesi Professor W C H Choy Professor D J Hill Dr K B Huang Professor R S Y Hui...
HKU Engineering team served two reconstructed schools in the Sichuan in the Earthquake ten-years-on
A team of 20 engineering students studying Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering joined the Sichuan reconstruction project jointly organized by the HKU Faculty of Engineering and the University...
MSc EEE Student Gianni Heung awarded Croucher Foundation Grant for near space solar telescope ‘SunbYte’ project with NASA
From left: Prof. SC Chan (MSc EEE Program Director), Dr. Wilton Fok (Gianni’s HKU project supervisor), Ms. Gianni Heung (the scholarship awardee), and Prof. KT Chau (Head of EEE) MSc EEE Student Ms Gianni Heung received a grant of HKD 50,000 from...
Two BEng(CE) students teams won the 1st and 2nd prizes in the Mobile Application Innovation Contest, China Collegiate Computing Contest
The Air Guitar team: Will Lam (left), Daniel Kwok (middle), Alex Teoh (right) Many congratulations to the teams of BEng(CE) students- “Air Guitar” and “Luminosite” The Air Guitar team, formed by our BEng(CE) students LAM Wun Yin Will, KWOK Ching...
2 teams of EEE students won the Regional Prizes in the Schneider Electric: Go Green in the City competition
EEE students got excellent results in the “Go Green in the City” competition organized by Schneider Electric. Miss Agnes Ka Yee WONG from BEng(EE) created the team Wheel-Power and won the Regional Third Prize of the Greater China region. Observed...
Project MindoroBots was awarded national runner up in the James Dyson Award 2018
MindoroBots is an initiative by Computer Engineering students Sidhant Gupta and Rohak Singhal to build open-source robots which aim to reliably and effectively replace humans in coral reef surveying. Mr. Rohak Singhal (left) and Mr. Sidhant Gupta...
Dr. Philip Pong has been elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET)
Dr. Philip Pong has been elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), making him one of a small group of around 70 engineers to achieve this status before turning 40. For more details, please check out the following link:...
The Champion of the IEEE (HK) CI Postgraduate Paper Competition 2017-2018
Mr. Kai Fung CHU, an EEE postgraduate student supervised by Professor Victor OK LI and Dr. Albert YS LAM, won the Champion of the 12th Postgraduate Paper Contest organized by the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence (CI) Chapter for his...
Summer Programme 2018
The HKUEEE Summer Programme 2018 is a two-week programme tailored for senior high-school students filled with hands-on electronic projects, field trip, and most importantly, fun! It has taken place from 31 July - 9 August 2018 and below we sample...
EEE students received two awards in PIERS 2018
Dr. L. Jiang's student Menglin Chen received the PIERS 2018 Best Student Paper Award 3rd Prize at Toyama, Japan last week. The awarded paper is “Orbital Angular Momentum Generation Using Composite Quasi-continuous Metasurfaces with a Perfect...