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2017-01-04
CUHK Faculty of Engineering Launches First-ever FinTech Undergraduate Programme in Hong Kong
Financial Technology (FinTech) is a newly emerging interdisciplinary field between finance and engineering which has been demonstrating an unprecedented potential to revolutionise the traditional financial service sector. It focuses on employing cutting-edge developments in engineering, particularly ... -
2016-10-31
Faculty of Engineering Celebrates 25 Years of Excellence in Education and Innovation
The Faculty of Engineering staged a series of celebration events and showcased recent achievements in education and research to mark its 25th anniversary on 8 October 2016. The celebration day of the Faculty’s 25th anniversary began with an achievement exhibition featuring 20 ... -
2016-09-14
A Breakthrough in Storage and Transmission of Renewable Energy
Prof. Wong Ching-ping has been leading a cross-institutional research team to conduct a five-year research project entitled ‘Smart Solar Energy Harvesting, Storage and Utilization’. The research team of CUHK has successfully invented the most efficient supercapacitors and the flow batteries with the highest volumetric capacity reported ... -
2016-08-23
Pioneer in Research on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning
The Chinese University of Hong Kong is one of the pioneers in the research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning. The *CUVideo* team from the Department of Electronic Engineering has recently shone in the ‘ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge’ (ILSVRC), one of the ... -
2016-04-29
Prof. Jonathan Choi Receives Croucher Innovation Award
Prof. Jonathan Choi Chung-hang from the Department of Electronic Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) received a Croucher Innovation Award 2016 in the amount of HK$ 5 million. He is the first recipient from CUHK since the inauguration of this award by the Croucher Foundation in 2012. The award was presented to him by Prof. Rosie Young, ... -
2016-01-25
Prof. Jianwei Huang Elected IEEE Fellow 2016
Prof. Jianwei Huang from the Department of Information Engineering has been elected Fellow of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for his contributions to resource allocation in wireless systems. This year, 297 scholars were elected IEEE fellows worldwide, and 2% of them are below 40 years ... -
2015-12-11
Prof. Michael Lyu Conferred ACM Fellowship 2015
Prof. Lyu Rung Tsong Michael from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been elected Fellow by The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - an authoritative international engineering organization - for his remarkable contributions to the theory and practice of software reliability engineering. This year, 42 are ... -
2015-11-24
CUHK Receives Winners’ Cup at National Challenge Cup Competition
CUHK students swept top awards in the 14th Challenge Cup held at Guangdong University of Technology, and won the Winners’ Cup, the second top prize of the competition. With overall outstanding performance, CUHK received the second top prize, Winners’ Cup, beating more than 300 participating universities and over 780 projects from ... -
2015-07-09
Information Engineering Professors Revealed Sweeping Security Loopholes in Mobile Devices and Social Media
Research teams of the Department of Information Engineering have recently revealed serious security loopholes in Android devices and social media. The findings, which have been released in the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2014 and Black Hat USA 2014, have drawn wide attention in the research community, ... -
2015-07-02
Innovative Network Coding Techniques Revolutionize Wireless Communications
The university has recently been named by Thomson Reuters as one of the 10 research institutions in the world with the most impact on telecommunications. Amongst US and European universities, it is the only Asian institution on the list. The recognition was given to 10 institutions having the highest citation impact (research papers being the most highly cited by ...
