Gifted Education Fund

Edge AIoT and Microelectronics (EdgeAIoTM) Engineering Skills for Gifted Students

This 7-month programme teaches high school students essential knowledge and skills related to AI, IoT, edge computing, and microelectronics technologies. It also seeks to empower them with coding, engineering, and mathematics skills, as well as critical thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving abilities. These soft and hands-on skills will enable them to develop applications that can solve current and future world problems.

 

Intake: 50 students (Secondary 1-5, HKAGE member)
Programme Delivery Period: May 2025 - Dec 2025

 

 

Please find more details of the programme HERE.

 

Major Allocation Information Sessions 2025
Major Allocation Information Sessions 2025
 
ELEL Session – 25 March (Tue) 17:00 -17:50, LT-11 
MEE Session – 26 March (Wed) 15:00 -15:50, LT-12
INFE Session – 26 March (Wed) 17:00- 17:50, LT-10
CDE Session – 28 March (Fri) 14:00 – 14:50, LT-13
 

Please find more details HERE.

News and Awards

Prof K M Luk, Chair Professor of EE, has been selected to receive the 2025 IEEE AP-S Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award for his significant contributions in education of antenna theory, design and applications. The award will be presented at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, which will take place at the Rogers Centre in Ottawa, Canada, in July 2025. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (IEEE AP-S) is recognized as the leading society in the antenna field in the world. The Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award
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Professor Derrick Jiang (Assistant Professor of EE) and his research team have been honored with the Y-LOT’s 3rd Hong Kong SciTech Pioneers Award 2023-2024, in recognition of their outstanding dedication and contributions to emerging technologies for electric vehicles. The award, hosted by Y-LOT Foundation and sponsored by Herson Land and Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC), aims to recognize and celebrate the valuable contributions of outstanding scientists and research teams in the fields of Deep Tech, Biotechnology, Space Science, ESG, and Future Innovation. Prof Jiang is the awardee
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Prof Arindam Basu (Professor of EE) and his PhD students, namely Mr Pao Sheng Sun and Miss Biyan Zhou, have published a paper in the top journal – Nature Communications, on 11 February 2025. The paper titled “The neuro bench framework for Benchmarking Neuromorphic Computing Algorithms and Systems” is a collaborative work with scholars coming from a worldwide consortium on brain-inspired or neuromorphic computing spanning 57 institutes. Authors are grouped based on contributions. The team primarily developed the main algorithm track results on the non-human primate motor prediction task, one
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The collaborative research team led by Prof Cheng Wang (Associate Professor of EE) and Prof Edwin Pun (Chair Professor of EE), has published a paper in the top journal – Nature Photonics, on 27 January 2025. Title: Integrated lithium niobate photonic millimetre-wave radar Authors: Prof Cheng Wang (Associate Professor of EE, CityUHK) Prof Edwin Pun (Chair Professor of EE, CityUHK) Dr Yiwen Zhang- first author (PhD graduate in Feb 2025 at CityUHK supervised by Prof Cheng Wang) Dr Hanke Feng (Postdoctoral Fellow of EE, CityUHK) Mr Yongji Wang (PhD student of CHEM, CityUHK) Prof Sha Zhu – first
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Prof K M Luk, Chair Professor of EE, has been selected to receive the 2025 IEEE AP-S Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award for his significant contributions in education of antenna theory, design and applications. The award will be presented at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting, which will take place at the Rogers Centre in Ottawa, Canada, in July 2025. IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (IEEE AP-S) is recognized as the leading society in the antenna field in the world. The Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award
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Professor Derrick Jiang (Assistant Professor of EE) and his research team have been honored with the Y-LOT’s 3rd Hong Kong SciTech Pioneers Award 2023-2024, in recognition of their outstanding dedication and contributions to emerging technologies for electric vehicles. The award, hosted by Y-LOT Foundation and sponsored by Herson Land and Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC), aims to recognize and celebrate the valuable contributions of outstanding scientists and research teams in the fields of Deep Tech, Biotechnology, Space Science, ESG, and Future Innovation. Prof Jiang is the awardee
Read more +
Prof Arindam Basu (Professor of EE) and his PhD students, namely Mr Pao Sheng Sun and Miss Biyan Zhou, have published a paper in the top journal – Nature Communications, on 11 February 2025. The paper titled “The neuro bench framework for Benchmarking Neuromorphic Computing Algorithms and Systems” is a collaborative work with scholars coming from a worldwide consortium on brain-inspired or neuromorphic computing spanning 57 institutes. Authors are grouped based on contributions. The team primarily developed the main algorithm track results on the non-human primate motor prediction task, one
Read more +
The collaborative research team led by Prof Cheng Wang (Associate Professor of EE) and Prof Edwin Pun (Chair Professor of EE), has published a paper in the top journal – Nature Photonics, on 27 January 2025. Title: Integrated lithium niobate photonic millimetre-wave radar Authors: Prof Cheng Wang (Associate Professor of EE, CityUHK) Prof Edwin Pun (Chair Professor of EE, CityUHK) Dr Yiwen Zhang- first author (PhD graduate in Feb 2025 at CityUHK supervised by Prof Cheng Wang) Dr Hanke Feng (Postdoctoral Fellow of EE, CityUHK) Mr Yongji Wang (PhD student of CHEM, CityUHK) Prof Sha Zhu – first
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