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2021-04-09
CUHK Develops Biohybrid Soft Microrobots with a Rapid Endoluminal Delivery Strategy for Gastrointestinal (GI) Diseases
A collaborative research team led by Professor Li ZHANG from the Faculty of Engineering, Professor Joseph Jao-yiu SUNG and Professor Philip Wai-yan CHIU from the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has developed biohybrid soft microrobots with an endoscopy-assisted magnetic... -
2021-03-29
CUHK Research Team Enables Navigation and Localisation of Microrobotic Swarms in Blood Vessels Drive Forward Transformation towards Medical Applications
A research team led by Professor Li Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has developed a new strategy to simultaneously control and track a microrobotic swarm in blood vessels in real-time. The swarm control and ... -
2021-03-19
Leading Blue Energy Revolution: CUHK Faculty of Engineering Develops Water-Tube-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Efficient Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting
A research team from the Faculty of Engineering has recently developed a water-tube-based triboelectric nanogenerator that can efficiently convert various irregular and low-frequency mechanical energies, including ocean wave energy, into electricity, providing a new avenue for the development of “blue... -
2021-03-02
CUHK and ASTRI Pull Together to Launch Smart City Technology Oriented Practitioner Programme
The Faculty of Engineering signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) on implementing a Smart City Technology Oriented Practitioner (TOP) programme for up to 30 master students in the Faculty of Engineering of CUHK. ASTRI will ... -
2021-02-08
CUHK and HKPC Join Forces to Nurture Next Generation InnoTalent with On-the-Job Research Opportunities to Strengthen Local Talent Pool
The Faculty of Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding pledging to jointly nurture a new generation of innovation and technology (I&T) talent and incubate more InnoTalent in Hong Kong. Through the provision of various student ... -
2021-01-20
Prof. Tao Yufei Elected ACM Fellow 2020
Prof. Tao Yufei, Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has been elected Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for the Class of 2020. The ACM Fellow Program initiated in 1993. It ... -
2021-01-18
CUHK Engineering Professor Pascal O. Vontobel Elected IEEE Fellow 2021
Professor Pascal O. Vontobel from the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been, this year, elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) with the citation “for contributions to graphical models for channel coding”.... -
2020-12-23
CUHK Faculty of Engineering Develops a Multilayer Roll-to-roll Printing System Achieving Submicron Overlay Accuracy for the First Time Ever Enabling Manufacturing of Low Cost Flexible Electronics
Professor Shih-Chi Chen and his team from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, the Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), have developed a flexure-based multilayer roll-to-roll (R2R) printing system that simultaneously achieves nanometer-level... -
2020-12-16
CUHK Develops Novel Microrobotic Diagnostic System to Accurately Diagnose Infectious Pathogens with Full Automation and Low Cost
CUHK has recently developed a fully automated, low cost and rapid microrobotic diagnostic system with comparable sensitivity and specificity to clinical detection methods. The research team is now studying the application of this microrobotic system for multiple pathogens including the COVID-19. This... -
2020-12-14
Prof. Wong Kam Fai Elected Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020
Professor Wong Kam Fai, Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering and Director of the Centre for Innovation and Technology), CUHK has been named Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in the class of 2020, in recognition of his significant contributions to...
