Two teams of HKU Engineering students from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering entered to the Finalist of the Youth Innovation Awards in the Singapore Digital Wonderland Exhibition organized by the Info\Comm Media Development Authority of the Singapore Government. It is the Singapore’s largest tech carnival held in the
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, where some student teams can realize
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 nine focused work tracks motivated by the theme (https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mes): “The rapid advance of renewable
Congratulations to Wu Yin Yu (our final year BEng(CE) student) and his team for winning the Silver Award in the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva! This project is a joined project with St. Paul’s Primary Catholic School and it is related to Mr. Wu’s Senior Design Project (titled: “Dietary
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 as the possibility of joining
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 School Students Artificial Intelligence Exchange Exhibition (首届国际中学生人工智能交流展示会)”. In early 2019, four
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 imaging system to photograph and process images of coral reef
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 please to meet
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 technologies. The partnership will transform and upgrade AI and robotics technology with the outstanding research and
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 World Economic Forum. The research is about using electronic approach that
