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Nankai University delegation visited HKUEEE
A delegation that combined with teachers and undergraduate students from Nankai University 南開大學came to our Department for a 3-day-visit. Hosted by Prof. S C Chan, our Associate Head of Department (TPG and Development), the delegation has attended...
EEE students won the 2nd prizes in the 5th Hong Kong University Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
Group photo of HKU awardees Two EEE students won the 2nd prize (二等獎) in the 5th Hong Kong University Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (第五屆香港大學生創新及創業大賽). Our EEE PhD student, Mr. Ray Z.X. LI, who is co-supervised by Dr. Vincent...
Dr. Kaibin Huang received a Research Achievement Award from the Ministry of Education of China
Together with his collaborators at HKUST and Zhejiang University, Dr. Kaibin Huang received a Second Class Award in Research Achievements (Natural Science), Ministry of Education, China, 2018 [教育部高等學校科學研究優秀成果獎(自然科学) 二等獎 2018]. The award was given...
Research collaboration team from HKU and UC Berkeley was awarded funding from the US National Institutes of Health
Dr Kevin Tsia, Associate Professor of Dept. of EEE, was awarded a funding of over US$2 million from the BRAIN Initiative Fund of the US National Institutes of Health for a project to develop a high-speed optical imaging technology for recording fast neural activity throughout the living animal brain.
Dr. Kaibin Huang received a Best Paper Award from IEEE Communication Society
Dr. Kaibin Huang have received multiple paper awards for his research on energy harvesting communication with a focus on wireless power transfer. Most recently, he received the 2019 Best Tutorial Paper award by IEEE Communication Society for a...
Two EEE Teams entered the Finalist of the Youth Innovation Awards in Singapore and the RoboCoach Team won the Best Creative Idea Award
The HKU Teams on the stage: (From Left) Louis Chan, Baoheng Zhang, Oliver Xu, Carol Chen, Dr. Wilton Fok, Dr. Vincent Tam, Alvin Yu, Jasmine Poon . Felix Wong, Desmond Wong Two teams of HKU Engineering students from the Department of Electrical and...
MSc students in ELEC6098 Electronic Commerce and Mobile Commerce visited Qianhai
A group of MSc students visited Qianhai on 1 Apr 2019 as a technical visit for the course ELEC6098 Electronic Commerce and Mobile Commerce. The group was led by Dr. Wilton Fok and they visited the exhibition hall and the Young Talent Dream Factory,...
Professor David Hill invited speaker at Mathematics of Energy Systems Programme in the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University
The renowned Isaac Newton Institute (INI) has hosted a programme on Mathematics in Energy Systems (MES) from January to May 2019. The programme consisted of five week-long workshops, two associated knowledge exchange workshops with industry and...
HKUEEE student team got the Silver Award in the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
(Left) Mr. Sunny Lam (the Lam Foundation), representative of the supporting organization, (Right) Dr. Vincent Tam (Right) Mr. Sunny Lam (the Lam Foundation), representative of the supporting organization, (Left) Dr. Vincent Tam Congratulations to...
Meeting of Minds@HKU Forum
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) would like to invite you to apply for a place at our Meeting of Minds@HKU Forum to be held on 14-15 October 2019. We’re flying in 30 outstanding young scholars for two days of presentations and networking, as well...
Participation of HKUEEE and Local High Schools in The 1st International High School Students Artificial Intelligence Exchange Exhibition
HKU Engineering and SenseTime Group Ltd. signed an MoU in Aug 2018 to promote artificial intelligence (AI) among secondary schools in Hong Kong. Dr. Ngai Wong of HKUEEE was appointed the regional coordinator for the “The 1st International High...
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...