College/School Commencement 2024
The College/School Commencement 2024 will be held from 12 to 21 June in Wong Cheung Lo Hui Yuet Hall. Every year, this joyful institutional event brings graduates together to celebrate their accomplishments with the entire University community. For more information, please visit here.
New appointment
Professor Guo Yongxin was appointed Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, effective from 16 May. Professor Guo's research interests include electromagnetics in medicine, antennas, wireless power transfer, and MMIC modelling and design. He is a Fellow in the IEEE and the Singapore Academy of Engineering.
HKIAS Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Wang Enge, of Peking University, will conduct an HKIAS Distinguished Lecture, titled 鈥淔ull quantum effects in condensed matter physics鈥?on 6 June. In the talk, organised by the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS), he will discuss nuclear quantum effects and non-adiabatic effects in practical materials, which cannot be overlooked when performing accurate simulations or measurements of their physical and chemical properties. For more information, please visit here.
Another HKIAS Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by Professor Ma Wei-ying, Huiyan Chair Professor of Tsinghua University, titled 鈥淕enerative AI for scientific discovery鈥? In the talk on 11 June, Professor Ma will introduce generative AI technology aimed at scientific discovery and present the latest progress of his team in developing generative AI technology for applications in areas such as drug discovery, protein engineering and antibody design. For more information, please visit here.
HKICE Summit on Next-Generation Green Energy Materials and Applications
The HKICE Summit on Next-Generation Green Energy Materials and Applications, organised by the Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy (HKICE), is dedicated to showcasing the latest advancements in novel nanomaterials development and their applications in clean energy devices. Held on 13 and 14 June, the summit will cover a series of plenary lectures from world-leading scholars and keynote talks from local experts in areas like emerging PVs, energy storage, green energy materials, catalysis and electrochem. For more information, please visit here.
Kudos
The team of Electrical Engineering students, Onggowarsito Raymonk Surya, Chan Ka-shing, and Zhang Fanglu, won the second prize in the 鈥淧ractice Competition - Computing Track 2鈥?at the Huawei ICT Competition 2023-2024 Global Final. They were supervised by Dr Du Yuefeng, a Postdoc from the Department of Computer Science. Over 160 teams and more than 470 players from 49 countries and regions participated in the Global Final after several rounds of selection.