Areas of Excellence Celebration Luncheon

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Prof Wang Cheng

Honoree of the 2021 MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (China)

EE Outstanding Teacher Award 2020/21

CENG Outstanding Teaching Award 2020/21

Croucher Innovation Award 2020

The President’s Award 2020

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macao) 2019

Four Journal Papers Published in Nature

Prof K M Luk

IEEE AP-S Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award 2025

Significant Grant in the Areas of Excellence Scheme (AoE) Funded by the Research Grants Council

The 14th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award

Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences 2021

Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress by the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation 2019

Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering 2018

IEEE AP-S John Kraus Antenna Award 2017

CityUHK Outstanding Research Award 2017

Prof Hong Yan

National Academy of Inventors Fellow 2021

Journal Paper Published in Nature Communications

Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts 2019

Being Titled Wong Chung Hong Professor of Data Engineering

IEEE SMC-S Norbert Wiener Award 2016

Prof C H Chan

ECE Distinguished Alumni Award 2019 by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

IEEE AP-S Harrington-Mittra Computational Electromagnetics Award 2019

The President’s Award 2017

Prof Ron Chen

IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award 2022

Being Titled Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Chair Professor of Engineering

EE Outstanding Teacher Award 2020/21

Top Scientists List by H-Index in Computer Science and Electronics 2020

Highly-cited Researcher for the field “Engineering” by Clarivate Analytics

Chinese Institute of Electronics Best Paper Award 2020

The President’s Awards 2018

State Natural Science Award – Second-class Award for 3 Times (2016, 2012, 2008)

Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences 2015

Member of the Academia Europaea 2014

31 Oct 2025

EE Annual Awards

To celebrate the achievements of our alumni/ individuals in their career, and/ or servicing CityUHK EE community, or our society; EE is going to launch our exciting 5th EE Annual Awards!

Deadline: 31 October 2025
Please find more detail of the EE Annual Awards HERE

04 Oct 2025

CityUHK Information Day 2025

Date: 4 October 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00am – 5:30pm
Venue: EE Booth, 4/F, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building
Details: Please check here

The Challenge of Making Self-Driving Cars: May AI help to overcome the Risks or should we focus on reliable Sensor Technologies?

Prof. Wolfgang Osten

10:00 AM ~ 11:00 AM

LT-4 (Mr & Mrs David TF Chow Lecture Theatre), Yeung Kin Man Acad. Building, City University of Hong Kong

Language:

English

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.

News and Awards

ELEL Graduate Winning 2025 Outstanding Power and Energy Engineering Graduate Award by IET

16 Sep 2025

Mr FUNG Ho Leung (2025 graduate of ELEL) has been awarded 2025 Outstanding Power and Energy Engineering Graduate Award by the Power and Energy Section (PES) of The Institution of Engineering and Technology Hong Kong (IET). This award aims to recognize the outstanding academic achievements of graduates in Electrical Engineering at the Bachelor's degree level, encourage students to pursue their careers in power and energy engineering, promote IET Hong Kong PES to higher education graduates, and foster active participation in IET Hong Kong PES activities. Nominee should be of exceptional academic

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Winning Best Presentation Award at 2025 International Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Technology (AEET 2025)

15 Sep 2025

Mr ZHU Zhaozheng (PhD) has won the Best Presentation Award at 2025 International Conference on Applied Electrical Engineering and Technology (AEET 2025). The award-winning paper, supervised by Prof Derrick Jiang (Associate Professor of EE), is titled “Synchronization of Bidirectional Wireless Power Transfer System: A Novel Method and Comparative Study on Compensation Topologies”. Applied electrical engineering and technology is a dynamic and rapidly evolving field that integrates principles of electrical engineering with cutting-edge technological advancements. It plays a pivotal role in

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Prof Wang Cheng having Paper Published in Top Journal – Nature

15 Sep 2025

Prof WANG Cheng (Associate Professor), Prof FENG Hanke (Research Assistant Professor), and Dr TAO Yuansheng (Postdoc Fellow) have published a paper in the top journal – Nature, on 27 August 2025. The paper titled “ Ultrabroadband on-chip photonics for full-spectrum wireless communications” is a collaborative work with scholars from Peking University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. You may get a glimpse of the research work in the paper located at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09451-8 or visit the news release at People’s Daily.

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2024 Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Runner-up Prize

26 Aug 2025

The paper, co-authored by Prof Arindam Basu (Professor of EE), and scholars from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, was awarded the 2024 Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper Runner-up Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The winning paper is titled “High-performance one-dimensional halide perovskite crossbar memristors and synapses for neuromorphic computing”.

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