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Upcoming Events

Jul

2025

(JS1205) Programme Information Session and Interviews for JUPAS Applicants 2025 by CityUHK-Electrical Engineering

CityUHK EE will hold a Programme Information Session and Interviews for JUPAS Applicants. Students will join an information session to know about the programme, meet with our Admission Tutors and professors, receive first-hand sharing from current students, and get a chance to ask us questions.

Date: 4 July 2025 (Friday)
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Venue: LT-2, Mr and Mrs Sze Chi Ching Lecture Theatre, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong

Details and registration (here)

Upcoming Seminars

Past Events

Mar

2021

EE Soft Skills Seminar – “Professor Says Series - Overcoming Adversity to Succeed in Life (克服逆境邁向人生)”

Professor Ron Chen, Chair Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of HK, shared with students for his experience gained from the most difficult time of his life during the "Cultural Revolution" in China in the 1960-70s in a Soft Skill Seminar – “Professor Says Series - Overcoming Adversity to Succeed in Life (克服逆境邁向人生)” on 5 March 2021. The seminar was held in mixed mode with 127 participants.

Professor Chen shared how he found ways to jump over hurdles and get around roadblocks, so that they did not stop him from moving forward and he hoped his stories could shed some light onto positive thoughts of students when facing adversity in life. Students actively participated in the Q&A session after the seminar.

Feb

2021

Award Presentation for EE T-shirt Design Contest 2020

EE T-shirt Design Contest 2020 was held in Semester A 2020/21 to encourage students to explore and develop their potential beyond academic excellence.

A total of 39 submissions were received and 24 were shortlisted for voting among all EE undergraduate students. Congratulations to the following winners! Awards were presented to them by Mr Van Ting, EE Mentoring Scheme Coordinator, on 26 February 2021.

	Most Wanted Design	Most Engineering Design	Most Creative Design
Gold	LAI Tsz Ki	AU Cheuk Ming	AU Cheuk Ming
Silver	CAI Qishi	CHEUK Shun Shing	LAI Tsz Ki
Bronze	WONG Ho Sum	CAI Qishi	WONG Ho Sum

Feb

2021

Photography and digital art competition for CityU EE students

Application Period : 21 December 2020 – 22 February 2021

Application : Details please refer to the poster.

Link to the poster

Feb

2021

EE Honor Society Machine Learning Contest

To engage EE students to explore the magic of AI, EE Honor Society (EEHS) organized the Machine Learning (ML) Contest. This was the legendary ML competition – participants dived into ML competitions and familiarized students with how the neuron networks works.

The competition used ML to create a model that predicts if one has suffered from pneumonia with medical image processing and various ML techniques. The ranking was based on the average score given by our judge of faculty team including Dr. CHIU Bernard, Dr. SUN Yanni and Dr. YUAN Yixuan.

Congratulations to the winning teams of Machine Learning Contest!

Ranking	Team Name	Team Member
1	E核为贵	YAN Boxun, LIU Jierui, RUAN Yuyan
2	Unemployed Soon	PANI Anupam, RAJNIKANTH Ajay
3	emmm	HE Houbo, YANG Hao, XU Tianxiao
4	MJ	TSANG Martin, YAM Yat Wa
4	Rocket Run as One	WANG Kewei, TONG Jingyi
4	Byte Bros	DING Zhiyuan, KONG Xin, RAHMAN Alvi

They received cash coupons as prizes ranging from $250 to $1,200.

Feb

2021

Farewell to Three Retiring Faculty

Three long-serving EE faculty – Dr Ricky Lau, Mr K T Ng and Dr Derek Pao retired or going to retire in Nov 2020, Dec 2020 and Feb 2021, respectively.

Unfortunately, farewell party could not be arranged given the COVID situation. Nevertheless, the Department has secured an occasion to honor their commitments and substantial contributions rendered to the Department and the University in the past 29 – 31 years, and a souvenir was presented to them as a token of thanks and appreciation. Our best wishes to them in their new page of life!


Dr Ricky Lau 30 years of service		Mr K T Ng 31 years of service		Dr Derek Pao 29 years of service

Jan

2021

CityU Joint Lab with six world-renowned enterprises to promote innovative technology

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) and six world-renowned technology companies, including ASM Pacific Technology Limited, Gold Peak Industries (Holdings) Limited, Microsoft Hong Kong Limited, Sino Group, SmarTone Telecommunications (Holdings) Limited, and SUGA International (Holdings) Limited, announced the establishment of the CityU EE Joint Lab on 14 January 2021. All six partners shared their experience and expectations about this scheme. Over 120 industrialists and academic faculty members joined this ceremony via zoom. These partnerships mark the cooperation in promoting research and knowledge/technology transfer to steer the development of innovative technology in Hong Kong.

President Way Kuo was delighted to witness the commencement of phase three of the joint laboratory project and hoped this will contribute to more innovative technologies in the future and help promote technology transfer and commercialisation to benefit our community.

Since its establishment in 2019, the CityU EE Joint Lab Programme has connected with a total of 16 CityU EE Joint Lab Partners. A series of cooperative and technical projects have been/will be launched with these partners.

Front row, from left:

Dr Brian Li (Gold Peak), Prof Stella Pang (EE Head), Prof Way Kuo (President), Ms Cally Chan (Microsoft), Mr Peter Ng (ASM)

Back row, from left:

Dr Alfred Ng (SUGA), Mr Stephen Chau (SmarTone), Mr Andrew Young (Sino)

News reports in: Hong Kong Commercial Daily, HK01 Company Limited, H K CHINA NEWS AGENCY LIMITED, Sing Tao Daily, Hong Kong Economic Journal Company Limited, WENWEIPO.COM LIMITED, Bastillepost, CityU News Centre, Oriental Daily News, CityUpdate


Video

Joint Lab Phase 3 Opening Ceremony 2021	Joint Lab Phase 3 Welcome Speech by Professor Stella Pang, EE Head

Joint Lab Phase 3 Welcome Speech by Professor Way Kuo, President & University Distinguished Professor	Sharing from Mr Peter Ng (ASM)

Sharing from Dr Brian Li (Gold Peak)	Sharing From Ms Cally Chan (Microsoft)

Sharing From Ir Andrew Young (SINO)	Sharing From Mr Stephen Chau (SmarTone)

Sharing From Dr Alfred Ng (SUGA)	CityU EE: Joint Lab Phase 3 Closing Remarks by Professor Stella Pang, EE Head

Jan

2021

Round Table Discussion on Teaching Philosophy

To prepare PhD students to teach when serving as Teaching Assistants for the Department and move on as a faculty after graduation, a round table discussion on teaching philosophy hosted by Dr Kelvin Yuen was held over Zoom on 8 January 2021.

Winners of Outstanding Teacher Awards 2020, namely Dr Ray Cheung, Mr Van Ting, Dr Cheng Wang and Prof Moshe Zukerman, were invited to share their teaching philosophy and experiences with students. Important factors to effective teaching and learning, innovations in teaching, blended approach on programming education, etc., were discussed on the day.

Jan

2021

Sharing on Effective Teaching

A sharing session hosted by Dr Kelvin Yuen was held over Zoom on 6 January 2021 to promote effective teaching among PhD students who serve as Teaching Assistants (TA) for the Department.

Ways for achieving simple, consistent and accurate marking and checking; how to make use of Canvas for efficient marking; and tips on improving teaching quality were shared. Some TAs were invited to share their teaching experiences as well. The talk ended with active discussion on effective teaching practices among participants.

Kelvin Yuen Sharing On Effective TA Teaching

Jan

2021

Bridging EE Students/Faculty with Friends from Industry

39 CEOs, directors, vice presidents, division heads, managers and officers of 26 companies participated in two industrial gatherings with EE faculty members held on 5th and 7th January 2021.

The gatherings were very fruitful and constructive in a way that good exchanges on university-industry collaborative proposals were carried out for a number of career-related student projects and program, namely Design Projects, Industrial Attachment Scheme, Final Year Projects, Professional (one-year) Internship Program, Career Coaching, Dissertation, Summer Internship for MSc students, and University-Industrial 3+2 PhD Scheme. Opportunities on research activities with faculty were also explored.

More events fostering university-industry collaboration will be organized to bridge our students and faculty with industry friends!