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2015-10-07
CUHK Genetic Engineering Team Wins Gold Again in iGEM Finals in Boston
A genetic engineering team formed by 13 undergraduate students of science and engineering at CUHK has recently won a gold medal at the International Genetic Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2015 Giant World Jamboree held in Boston, USA. This is the fourth time that a CUHK team has won gold in the annual premier synthetic biology competition ... -
2015-09-11
Information Engineering Student Wins Gold at ASM Technology Competition
Deng Yubin has won the ASM Technology Award 2015 with his undergraduate Final Year Project titled "Attribute based human identification" supervised by Prof. LOY Chen Change Cavan. His project is considered for the gold award as a practical innvoation tool and advanced methodology that are specific for pedestrian attribute recognition ... -
2015-08-21
Empowering Students through Engineering Summer Camp 2015
More than 60 high school students were invited to join the 3-day residential engineering summer camp held on campus from 22 to 24 July 2015. Organised by the Faculty of Engineering, students in the camp are engaged in a wide range of inspiring and interesting activities including hands-on programming lectures, project design competition, campus eco-tour, and visited ... -
2015-07-15
Students Won Top Prizes at Challenge Cup Hong Kong University Students Extra-curriculum Technology Contest
As a biennial national competition, the Challenge Cup is known as the 'Olympics' in promoting innovation in social science, science and technology for university students in China. This year, the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association held the first Challenge Cup Hong Kong University Students Extra-curriculum Technology Contest ... -
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, ... -
2015-07-08
Computer Science Students Won the CodeIT Suisse 2014 Competition
Three students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Elton Chung Yiu-ting, Alan Wong Cheuk-lun and William Cheung Wa i-lam formed a team INFINITY and won the championship in the CodeIT Suisse 2014 competition. Organised by Credit Suisse, the competition is to offer students a coding challenge and encourage young coding talents to join its ... -
2015-07-08
Skills for Success – Effective Entrepreneurship and Leadership 2015
To help students develop themselves into confident and successful leaders, the Faculty offered an entrepreneurship and leadership training programme for over 100 engineering undergraduate students, designed and delivered by Dale Carnegie Training. The training was divided into three phases. *Phase 1:* ... -
2015-07-06
European Innovation Academy_2015
Eureopean Innovation Academy (EIA) was held during 6 – 23 July 2015 in Nice, France. It was a three-week programme where participants from various universities around the world worked in multidisciplinary teams to start up new IT innovations, mentored and educated by industry leaders and professors. The Faculty has... -
2015-07-05
Summer Experiential Programme in Beijing
A student group of nine spent a week in Beijing during 5 – 11 July 2015, during which they visited Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and Yao Class, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences of Tsinghua University and also explore the city of Beijing. In MSRA, the students were introduced a number of... -
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 ...
