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2018-11-21
Faculty of Engineering Launches Master of Science in Financial Technology in Hong Kong
Financial Technology (FinTech), an emerging industry that enhances convenience and efficiency in financial activities through the adoption of data-oriented and smart technologies, is bringing revolution to the financial service sector. The development of innovations such as virtual bank and blockchain ... -
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 ... -
2018-06-21
Prof. Wu Ke-li Revolutionises the World’s Smart Drainage Technology for Wireless, Continuous and Large-Scale Flood and Gas Monitoring
The complexity of our urban drainage system and blockages in it may impose difficulty and danger on performing the onsite inspection and detection of hazardous gases such as sulphur dioxide and methane, and even increase the risk of flooding associated with adverse weather conditions. A certain concertation of methane may potentially ... -
2018-06-14
Prof. Chen Shih-Chi Develops Ultrafast Microscope to Help Tackle Glaucoma and Other Neurological Diseases
A microscope that may help the study of neurological diseases has been developed at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). A team led by Prof. Shih-Chi Chen, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK, has recently developed the first digital holography-based (DH) two-photon excitation ( ... -
2018-06-13
Prof. Wong Kam Fai Appointed in the First Batch of Natural Language Processing Experts of CAAI
Prof. Wong Kam Fai, Associate Dean (External Affairs), Faculty of Engineering and Director of Centre of Innovation and Technology, CUHK has been appointed as one of the first batch of national experts by The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) under the category of natural language processing and understanding. A ... -
2018-06-05
CUHK Faculties and MIT Join Forces in Exploring the Future of Teaching and Learning
The Faculty of Engineering, together with the Faculty of Education and Faculty of Social Science, is collaborating with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore using cutting-edge technology to improve teaching and learning, especially through understanding best practices for flipped classroom teaching via eLearning ... -
2018-06-04
Faculty of Engineering Receives Awards in the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
Research teams from four projects have been awarded in the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Here is a summary of CUHK award-winning projects: *Gold Medal* * *Prof. LIAO Wei Hsin, Mr. GAO Fei *and* Mr. LIU Yannan,* Department of ... -
2018-05-23
SEEM Department Develops Landslide Detection System
A smart landslide detection system developed by a research team led by Professor Cheng Chun-hung, Associate Professor of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management was recognised as one of the latest application-oriented researches that ‘save citizens’ lives’ and has recently won a silver award under the ... -
2018-05-17
Prof. Raymond Yeung Develops BATS Code for Efficient Network Transmission
A research team led by *Prof. Raymond W. Yeung*, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Information Engineering and Co-Director of the Institute of Network Coding (INC) at CUHK, has invented *BATched Sparse code (BATS code)* to improve the network transmission rate of networks with packet loss. It is one of the world’s ...
