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2018-10-15
Faculty of Engineering Launches Bachelor of Artificial Intelligence: Systems and Technologies
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering will launch a new four-year undergraduate programme in Artificial Intelligence: Systems and Technologies (JUPAS code: 4468) in the 2019-20 academic year with the aim of nurturing professionals and leaders for the age of artificial intelligence. AI becomes ... -
2018-10-15
Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) Visit (15-16 October 2018)
Two groups of ELITE students were invited to attend the Electronics Fair on 15 Oct and 16 Oct 2018 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, organized by The Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Guided tour and seminars on 3D Printing and AI Application were arranged. ... -
2018-09-24
Mourning Professor Sir Charles K. KAO
Dear Colleagues and Students, It was with great sadness that we received the news that Professor Charles Kao, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2009 and former VC of the University, has passed away yesterday. Professor Kao has been an outstanding scholar, a ... -
2018-09-11
Engineering Students Win Flipped Classroom Promotional Video Trailer Competition
A team of students from the Faculty of Engineering Media Studio have won the championship at the University Flipped Classroom Promotional Video Trailer Competition. The competition invited entries promoting the benefits on learning with the flipped classroom approach and encouraging students to participate in the pre-class activities of ... -
2018-09-06
Engineering Students Win Best Design Award at the Volvo Safety 1st Trolley Design Competition
A team of three Engineering students have recently received the Best Design Award in the Volvo Safety 1st Trolley Design Competition. Participants were required to tackle safety challenge and modify the design of a trolley for better safety during the competition. There were a total of 35 entries from various local intuitions and only ... -
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 ... -
2018-08-08
MIE Student Wins Bronze Award of the ASM Technology Competition
Mr. Ng Ka Lok from Mathematics and Information Engineering Programme has won the Bronze Award of the ASM Technology Competition with his project titled “A Secure Deep Neural Network Framework with Trusted Processors”. He received a scholarship award of $20,000 and an invitation to a Technology Tour to Munich, Germany arranged by ASM in ... -
2018-07-27
SEEM Student Receives the Best Student Paper Award at SPAWC 2018
Ms. Sherry Xue-Ying Ni, PhD student of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, receives the Best Student Paper Award at the 19th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2018) for her paper titled "Mixed-Integer Semidefinite Relaxation of Joint Admission ... -
2018-07-19
Prof. Zhang Kehuan Designs “Face Flashing” Protocol to Increase Precision of Face Recognition and Blocks Log In Attacks
The System Security Lab led by Prof. Zhang Kehuan, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, has designed a new challenge-response protocol for liveness detection. Light from a display screen will be projected to a human face and the reflected light will be captured by a camera to analyse the time interval between the ...
