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

EE students have won the Second and Third Prize in the 11th Hong Kong University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition. Award Category Project Title Winner Supervisor Second Prize Mathematics and Physics/Mechanics and Control Systems Autonomous Energy Routing and Redistribution Technology for Large-Scale Battery Storage Systems with Health Monitoring Capabilities Mr WEI Zhengqi (PhD student) Prof Henry Chung Third Prize Information Technology A High Performance Selenium Nanoflake Based Avalanche Photodetector Mr LIU Handa (ELEL student) Prof Chaoliang Tan The competition, organized
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Prof YAO Jin, Research Assistant Professor under the research group of Prof Din-ping Tsai, has won the Best Paper Award at the 11 th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics. The winning paper is titled “Nonlocal meta-lens for spin-multiplexing focusing and imaging”. The International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP) is a biennial, independent, and non-profit conference series widely regarded as the premier event in the field of plasmonics. The conference addresses both fundamental aspects and practical applications of plasmonics.
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Prof Gengbo WU (Assistant Professor of EE), Dr Yuansong ZENG (Research Fellow, SKLTMW), and Dr Jin CHEN (Postdoc, SKLTMW) have published a paper in the top journal – Nature, on 14 May 2025. The paper titled “Bulk–spatiotemporal vortex correspondence in gyromagnetic zero-index media” is a collaborative work with scholars coming from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, Wuhan University, Shenzhen University, and University of Southampton. This paper can be found at Nature. To give you a glimpse of the research work, here is a brief introduction: Here we
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The collaborative research team, comprising Prof Din-ping Tsai (Chair Professor of EE), Postdoctoral Fellows of EE, and scholars from Xiamen University, published a paper in the top journal – Nature Communications, on 11 March 2025. Title: Metasurface enabled high-order differentiator Authors: Prof Din-ping Tsai (Chair Professor of EE, City University of Hong Kong) Dr Xiaodong Qiu Postdoctoral Fellow of EE) Dr Jingcheng Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow of EE) Dr Yubin Fan (Postdoctoral Fellow of EE) Dr Junxiao Zhou (Postdoctoral Fellow of EE) Prof Lixiang Chen (Professor of Optics, Department of
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EE students have won the Second and Third Prize in the 11th Hong Kong University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition. Award Category Project Title Winner Supervisor Second Prize Mathematics and Physics/Mechanics and Control Systems Autonomous Energy Routing and Redistribution Technology for Large-Scale Battery Storage Systems with Health Monitoring Capabilities Mr WEI Zhengqi (PhD student) Prof Henry Chung Third Prize Information Technology A High Performance Selenium Nanoflake Based Avalanche Photodetector Mr LIU Handa (ELEL student) Prof Chaoliang Tan The competition, organized
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Prof YAO Jin, Research Assistant Professor under the research group of Prof Din-ping Tsai, has won the Best Paper Award at the 11 th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics. The winning paper is titled “Nonlocal meta-lens for spin-multiplexing focusing and imaging”. The International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP) is a biennial, independent, and non-profit conference series widely regarded as the premier event in the field of plasmonics. The conference addresses both fundamental aspects and practical applications of plasmonics.
Read more +
Prof Gengbo WU (Assistant Professor of EE), Dr Yuansong ZENG (Research Fellow, SKLTMW), and Dr Jin CHEN (Postdoc, SKLTMW) have published a paper in the top journal – Nature, on 14 May 2025. The paper titled “Bulk–spatiotemporal vortex correspondence in gyromagnetic zero-index media” is a collaborative work with scholars coming from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, Wuhan University, Shenzhen University, and University of Southampton. This paper can be found at Nature. To give you a glimpse of the research work, here is a brief introduction: Here we
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The collaborative research team, comprising Prof Din-ping Tsai (Chair Professor of EE), Postdoctoral Fellows of EE, and scholars from Xiamen University, published a paper in the top journal – Nature Communications, on 11 March 2025. Title: Metasurface enabled high-order differentiator Authors: Prof Din-ping Tsai (Chair Professor of EE, City University of Hong Kong) Dr Xiaodong Qiu Postdoctoral Fellow of EE) Dr Jingcheng Zhang (Postdoctoral Fellow of EE) Dr Yubin Fan (Postdoctoral Fellow of EE) Dr Junxiao Zhou (Postdoctoral Fellow of EE) Prof Lixiang Chen (Professor of Optics, Department of
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