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Visit Xue Leong 2 for the Class of EEE MSc Students
EEE teachers and students visited the Xue Long 2, the first Chinese-built polar research icebreaker, on 9 April 2024 to learn and understand the research works at the polar region…
Sunny Easter Wishes from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Happy Easter to you and your family! May you enjoy a joyful and lovely Easter holiday.
Dean’s Fund for Outreach to CCC Fong Yun Wah Secondary School
On March 25 2024, a delegation of teachers and students from CCC Fong Yun Wah Secondary School visited HKU. To start with, Prof. KW Chow, Associate Dean of Engineering, offered a welcoming remark. This is followed by a hands-on training workshop on multicoil wireless power transfer, which aims to…
A Fireside Chat on AI for Social Good
A Fireside Chat on AI for Social Good organized by HKU-AI WiSe and the Department of Medicine, the University of Cambridge. The event was held on March 23, 2024; supported by RGC-TRS, with about 50 participants attending the event.
HKU Researchers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Develop Novel Imaging Technology for Accurate Microplastic Detection
An interdisciplinary team, led by Professor Edmund Lam, has developed an innovative solution to address the environmental…
EEE MSc and e-Commerce and FinTech Students Visited Cyberport and Microsoft Head Office
A group of EEE Master of Science students and those who took ELEC2544 e-Commerce and FinTech visited the Cyberport and Microsoft Head Office on March 11, 2024. Cyberport Manager Mr. Victor Yim introduced the funding and incubation opportunities to the students and encouraged them to apply for the CCMF…
MSc Spring Dinner Gathering (Student Reception)
To celebrate the year of Dragon and to gather valuable feedback from our students to enhance our program development, the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering organized a Spring Dinner gathering on 24 February 2024. The event was...
Congratulations to Dr Li Can for winning the Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award with a fund of HK$5 million
Dr Li Can, an assistant professor of our department, has won this year's Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award with a fund of HK$5 million with help of his research in emerging memory devices. Dr Li said that training AI models based...
HKU Bulletin Cover Story : AI for Social Good
Novel artificial intelligence models have been developed by the HKU AI to Advance Well-being and Society Research Hub over a decade, aiming to identify early-stage biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease for early diagnosis and treatment, and making...
Congratulations to 6 Faculty members named on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2023 List
Congratulations to 6 Faculty members named on Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2023 List. Our department has 6 academics, among a total of 6,849 scholars from 67 countries and regions worldwide, named Highly Cited Researchers in 2023....
25 HKU EEE scholars named among world’s top 2% scientists
Congratulations to our faculty members who have been listed among world’s top 2% scientists 2023! Created by the research team led by Professor John Ioannidis, the Stanford University has released the “Updated science-wide author databases of...
HKUTechie – Fusing for Innovative Greatness
Professor Kenneth K.Y. Wong Head and Professor from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Inventor of compact fibre laser microscope Research Area: Photonics Research Highlight Professor Kenneth K. Y. Wong has been leading the...
Awards in the 8th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN 2023).
Award: Gold Medal and two International Special Awards Invention title: Multi-RiPO: A Multimodal Risk-Manageable Portfolio Optimization Platform for Automated Algorithmic Trading Inventors: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering...
HKU develops AI-powered SmartRehab platform to provide an accessible and affordable rehabilitation strategy for stroke patients globally
A team developed SmartRehab – a mobile platform that…
Congratulations to Dr Albert Ting Leung LEE, Prof. Siew Chung TAN, Prof. Ron HUI, Dr Cheuk Ping Germaine WONG and Dr Kerui LI for receiving the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) First Place Prize Paper Award
Every year, the Editor and Associate Editors of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (TPEL) recognize four first prize papers and six second prize papers deemed best among those published in the Transactions during the preceding calendar...
Congratulations to Dr Jiayang Wu for receiving the ECCE 2023 WIE Travel Grant Award
The IEEE WIE Travel Grant program provides grants for IEEE WIE members to attend and present at IEEE-sponsored conferences or IEEE WIE-sponsored events. Dr Wu has received the ECCE 2023 WIE Travel Grant Award for her paper titled 'Medium Voltage...
Call for papers: Data for Policy 2024 Special Track
Prof. V O K Li and Dr J C K Lam are organizing with Prof. Jon Crowcroft of Cambridge University, a special track (accepted papers to be published in a special issue of Cambridge University Press Data and Policy) for the Conference Data for Policy...
US National Academy of Medicine Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award (Hong Kong) 2023
Principal Investigator: Professor Victor O.K. Li, Chair Professor of Information Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering…
China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2023
Eight young researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have been awarded the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, under the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), for 2023. For the fifth consecutive year, HKU has secured the highest number of projects among its peer institutions since the fund was extended to Hong Kong and Macau for applications by eight designated universities in 2019.
Taught Postgraduate Admissions 2023
Entrance Scholarship Entrance scholarships are available for well-qualified Master’s students. Mode of Attendance: Full Time (minimum one year, maximum two years, with classes on weekday evenings and Saturdays) Part-Time (minimum two years,...
An EEE Team Won the Gold Medal and Two Special Awards in the 8th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada
Congratulations to Mr. Zhenglong Li, Dr. Vincent Tam, and Prof. Lawrence Yeung for winning the gold medal and two international special awards in the 8th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, 2023 with the project “Multi-RiPO: A...
Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2023
Congratulations to Dr Wilton Fok, Ms Carol Chen , Dr YC Wu and Dr XJ Qi of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering for receiving the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2023 in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments achieved in his...
IEEE VR 2023 VGTC Virtual Reality Significant New Researcher Award
Dr Evan Y. Peng of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Department of Computer Science received IEEE VR 2023 VGTC Virtual Reality Significant New Researcher Award in recognition of his research enabling new computational...
HKU Engineering team uses diamond microparticles to create high security anti-counterfeit labels
Counterfeiting is a serious problem affecting a wide range of industries – from medicine to electronics, inflicting enormous economic losses…
Creative Coder Competition 2022/23
The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong have co-organized the “Creative Coder Competition 202/23” at Tam Wing Fan Innovation One on July 8, 2023. The theme...




















