Gifted Education Fund

Generative AI and AIoT (GenAIoT) Coding Skills Education for Gifted Students

This programme teaches students knowledge related to AI, GenAI and AIoT technologies, and enhances their skills in engineering, mathematics and programming. It also covers ethics of using AI technology, and how to distinguish between real and fake contents.

Target: 50 students (Secondary 4-5)
Programme Delivery Period: May 2024 - Jan 2025

Please find more details of the programme HERE.

News and Awards

The collaborative research team, comprising Prof Yongxin Guo (Chair Professor of EE), and scholars from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, has published a paper in the top journal – Nature Communications, on 29 November 2024. Title: Urban skies safeguarded: innovative drone detection with programmable metasurface periscope Authors: Prof Yongxin Guo (Chair Professor of EE, City University of Hong Kong) Prof Hui Chu (Professor of School of of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology) Dr Hanjun Zhao (Postdoc of School of of Electronic and Optical
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Prof Alex Yu has been awarded the 2024 IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award for his contribution to MIMO communications with large-scale arrays and surfaces. This award recognizes exceptional young researchers under the age of 35 for their creativity, research impact, and contributions to ComSoc activities. It is the highest honor for young researchers in the field of information and communication in the Asia-Pacific region. Four to six outstanding young scholars from the Asia-Pacific region (including China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore
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A team led by Prof Derrick Jiang and comprising Dr MO Liping (Postdoc), Mr MA Tianlu (PhD student), and Mr WANG Yibo (PhD student) won the Third Prize in China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition 2024. The winning project is called “Electric Vehicle: Next-generation Nanocrystalline Smart Wireless EV Charger”. The competition, organized by Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, aims to serve as a platform to discover and support high-potential innovative enterprises and projects and drive the transformation of technological achievements into
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The paper “A Single-Source-Based Non-Isolated Micro-Inverter with Active Power Decoupling”, co-authored by Prof Henry Chung (Chair Professor) and scholars from Shanghai Maritime University, Aswan University, and Aalborg University, has won the Second Prize Paper Award of the Power Electronics Technical Committee (PETC) of the Industrial Electronics Society (IES). The paper, presented at IECON (Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society) 2023 in the track “Power Electronic Converters”, was evaluated and selected to receive the award, which will be presented to the awardee at
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The collaborative research team, comprising Prof Yongxin Guo (Chair Professor of EE), and scholars from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, has published a paper in the top journal – Nature Communications, on 29 November 2024. Title: Urban skies safeguarded: innovative drone detection with programmable metasurface periscope Authors: Prof Yongxin Guo (Chair Professor of EE, City University of Hong Kong) Prof Hui Chu (Professor of School of of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology) Dr Hanjun Zhao (Postdoc of School of of Electronic and Optical
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Prof Alex Yu has been awarded the 2024 IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award for his contribution to MIMO communications with large-scale arrays and surfaces. This award recognizes exceptional young researchers under the age of 35 for their creativity, research impact, and contributions to ComSoc activities. It is the highest honor for young researchers in the field of information and communication in the Asia-Pacific region. Four to six outstanding young scholars from the Asia-Pacific region (including China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore
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A team led by Prof Derrick Jiang and comprising Dr MO Liping (Postdoc), Mr MA Tianlu (PhD student), and Mr WANG Yibo (PhD student) won the Third Prize in China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition 2024. The winning project is called “Electric Vehicle: Next-generation Nanocrystalline Smart Wireless EV Charger”. The competition, organized by Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, aims to serve as a platform to discover and support high-potential innovative enterprises and projects and drive the transformation of technological achievements into
Read more +
The paper “A Single-Source-Based Non-Isolated Micro-Inverter with Active Power Decoupling”, co-authored by Prof Henry Chung (Chair Professor) and scholars from Shanghai Maritime University, Aswan University, and Aalborg University, has won the Second Prize Paper Award of the Power Electronics Technical Committee (PETC) of the Industrial Electronics Society (IES). The paper, presented at IECON (Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society) 2023 in the track “Power Electronic Converters”, was evaluated and selected to receive the award, which will be presented to the awardee at
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