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2021-08-24
Prof. Ren Wei Receives China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2021
Prof. Ren Wei, Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department, has been awarded China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2021 by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He will receive a funding of RMB 1.6 million to directly support his pioneering research on laser diagnostics for flow fields in Hong Kong over a... -
2021-08-05
CUHK and Zhejiang University Establish Joint Training Scheme for FinTech Talents
In order to meet the demand of the rapidly developing Financial Technology (FinTech) industry, and to promote cooperation between The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Zhejiang University (ZJU) in nurturing talents, the Faculty of Engineering of CUHK and the International Business School (ZIBS)... -
2021-07-30
Engineering Professors Named RGC Senior Research Fellow and RGC Research Fellow
The Research Grants Council (RGC) has recently announced its funding results for the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) and RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) of the 2021/22 Exercise. Two Faculty members received the awards. Each awardee is being supported with a fellowship grant to cover salary costs... -
2021-07-29
CUHK Engineering Team Discovers a New Degree of Freedom in Nanomechanical Topological Insulators Exploring Research Directions of New Types of Computer Chips
Topological insulators are a new type of quantum material studied intensely in recent years. They are important for understanding fundamental physics and for applications of semiconductor devices. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was awarded to three scientists for theoretical discoveries of topological... -
2021-07-21
CUHK Faculty of Engineering’s Raymond W. Yeung Receives 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award, the Highest Honour in Information Theory
Professor Yeung Wai-Ho Raymond, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering, and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been named the recipient of the 2022 Claude E. Shannon Award by the IEEE Information Theory Society for consistent and ... -
2021-07-12
Engineering Students Win Awards in the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
The 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was held at Hong Kong Science Park in May. CUHK Engineering students showed active and exemplary participation, winning a number of awards in the competition in the Innovation category and Entrepreneurship category.... -
2021-07-01
CUHK Robotics Team Wins Again in Robocon Hong Kong Contest
The robotics team of the Faculty of Engineering, CUHK has been crowned Champion in the Robocon 2021 Hong Kong contest. The team can once again represent Hong Kong to win glory, after its success in the 2019 Asia-Pacific Robocon Contest. The 2021... -
2021-06-25
CUHK Distinguished Professor-at-large Andrew Chi-Chih Yao Named 2021 Kyoto Prize Laureate
Professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Distinguished Professor-at-large of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), world renowned computer scientist, has recently been named 2021 Kyoto Prize Laureate, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to computation and communication. ... -
2021-06-22
CUHK Engineering Research Team Wins IEEE ICRA 2021 Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics
An engineering team working on AI for surgical robotics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) T Stone Robotics Institute has recently won the Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2021 (ICRA 2021). The award-winning project was led by... -
2021-06-12
CUHK Engineering Research Team Develops Novel Ultra-dynamic Hydrogel to Promote Differentiation of Human Stem Cell and Development of Tissue Engineering Materials
A research team co-led by Professor Bian Liming from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Professor Wang Yi from the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has recently developed a super dynamic cross-linked hydrogel that can...
