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2019-01-04
CUHK Appoints Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
The Council of The Chinese University of Hong Kong has approved the appointment of Professor Martin D.F. Wong as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering with effect from 4 January 2019. He will serve for a term of 5 years. Professor Wong is also appointed as Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Professor Martin D ... -
2019-01-04
Two CUHK Engineering Professors Elected IEEE Fellows 2019
Prof. Tsang Hon Ki and Prof. Irwin King Kuo Chin, Faculty of Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the class of 2019, for their research contributions to “nonlinear silicon photonics and advanced waveguide grating couplers” and... -
2018-12-18
Prof. Chen Shih-Chi Receives the 2018 R&D 100 Award for Developing the Digital Holography-based 3-D Nano-Builder for Ultrafast Micro-/Nano-Prototyping
Professor Shih-Chi Chen, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and his team have been honoured with the globally prestigious 2018 R&D 100 Award – “The Oscar of Invention” for the development of the Digital Holography-based 3-D Nano-Builder. It can additively write micro-nano-scale components with complex structures in ... -
2018-12-14
CUHK Team Develops a Rapid On-Site Method for Detecting Influenza Virus and Wins Gold Award in iGEM Competition
A genetic engineering team of 12 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Engineering, the School of Biomedical Science of the Faculty of Medicine, and the School of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Science has been awarded a Gold medal at the international ... -
2018-11-21
Faculty of Engineering Launches Master of Science in Financial Technology in Hong Kong
Financial Technology (FinTech), an emerging industry that enhances convenience and efficiency in financial activities through the adoption of data-oriented and smart technologies, is bringing revolution to the financial service sector. The development of innovations such as virtual bank and blockchain ... -
2018-08-31
Nano-robots Swarm Learn Collective Morphological Transformation on Animals with Huge Potential for Biomedical Applications
A new way to control the collective movement of nano-robots has been developed by a research team led by Prof. Li ZHANG, Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering. The team has studied and implemented swarm behaviors on nano-robots, allowing controlled morphological ... -
2018-08-28
Information Engineering Team Discovers Vulnerabilities of Single Sign Code
A team of the Department of Information Engineering has recently won the third place of the 2018 Internet Defense Prize and a research grant of US$40,000 funded by Facebook at the 27th USENIX Security Symposium held in the US. Their award was for their contribution to the critical analysis of the ... -
2018-06-21
Prof. Wu Ke-li Revolutionises the World’s Smart Drainage Technology for Wireless, Continuous and Large-Scale Flood and Gas Monitoring
The complexity of our urban drainage system and blockages in it may impose difficulty and danger on performing the onsite inspection and detection of hazardous gases such as sulphur dioxide and methane, and even increase the risk of flooding associated with adverse weather conditions. A certain concertation of methane may potentially ... -
2018-06-14
Prof. Chen Shih-Chi Develops Ultrafast Microscope to Help Tackle Glaucoma and Other Neurological Diseases
A microscope that may help the study of neurological diseases has been developed at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). A team led by Prof. Shih-Chi Chen, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK, has recently developed the first digital holography-based (DH) two-photon excitation ( ... -
2018-06-13
Prof. Wong Kam Fai Appointed in the First Batch of Natural Language Processing Experts of CAAI
Prof. Wong Kam Fai, Associate Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Engineering and Director of Centre of Innovation and Technology, CUHK has been appointed as one of the first batch of national experts by The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) under the category of natural language processing and understanding. A ...
