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2018-06-05
CUHK Faculties and MIT Join Forces in Exploring the Future of Teaching and Learning
The Faculty of Engineering, together with the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Social Science, is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore using cutting-edge technology to improve teaching and learning, especially through understanding best practices for flipped classroom teaching via eLearning ... -
2018-06-04
Faculty of Engineering Receives Awards in the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
Research teams from four projects have been awarded in the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Here is a summary of CUHK award-winning projects: *Gold Medal* * *Prof. LIAO Wei Hsin, Mr. GAO Fei *and* Mr. LIU Yannan,* Department of ... -
2018-05-23
SEEM Department Develops Landslide Detection System
A smart landslide detection system developed by a research team led by Professor Cheng Chun-hung, Associate Professor of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management was recognised as one of the latest application-oriented researches that ‘save citizens’ lives’ and has recently won a silver award under the ... -
2018-05-17
Prof. Raymond Yeung Develops BATS Code for Efficient Network Transmission
A research team led by *Prof. Raymond W. Yeung*, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding (INC) at CUHK, has invented *BATched Sparse code (BATS code)* to improve the network transmission rate of networks with packet loss. It is one of the world’s ... -
2018-04-20
Prof. Wong Kam Fai Develops AI Integrated Community-based Dining Recommendation System
Hong Kong has a reputation as a gourmet paradise and there have been numerous dining guides and review platforms offering a wide range of recommendations for tourists. A team led by Prof. Wong Kam Fai, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management has recently developed a personalised recommendation system INCOMIRS (... -
2018-04-19
Prof. Wong Kam Fai Receives the Second-class Award in Scientific and Technological Progress from MoE
A research project “Development and industrialisation of ‘Bilingual Trilingualism’-based retrieval and understanding platform on large scale social media” led by Prof. Wong Kam Fai has received the second-class award in Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ministry of Education (MoE). In collaboration with the ... -
2018-04-11
Two Innovative Projects Win Awards from FinTech Hackathons
The rapid growth of science and technology boosts financial services around the globe. Teams from Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management have won the Championship in the Bank of China (Hong Kong) (BOCHK) FinTech Hackathon and received First runner-up in the UHackFin, organised by the Hong Kong University of ... -
2018-01-22
Faculty of Engineering Holds Technology Forum to Explore the Future Possibilities of AI
The Centre for Innovation and Technology (CINTEC), Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) held a technology forum titled ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) Over Humans?’ today (18 January 2018), drawing over 500 technology leaders, experts, researchers and government officials to discuss the future possibilities ... -
2018-01-04
Three Engineering Professors Elected IEEE Fellows 2018
Prof. Jiaya Jia, Prof. Chandra Nair and Prof. Jianbin Xu from the Faculty of Engineering have been elected Fellows of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the class of 2018, for their remarkable accomplishments in “deblurring techniques in computational photography”, “network information theory” ... -
2017-12-06
CUHK Team Develops a Rapid On-Site Method for Subtyping Influenza A virus and Wins Gold Award in iGEM Competition
A genetic engineering team of 15 undergraduate students of Life Science and Biomedical Engineering has been awarded a Gold medal at the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2017 Giant Jamboree held in Boston, USA, for developing a novel rapid test for an influenza subtype. The winning project has extensive potential ...
