Honorary Awards Ceremony
Three esteemed individuals were conferred honorary doctorates at the Honorary Awards Ceremony held on 1 November in recognition of their distinctive contributions to education and the well-being of society. They are Dr the Hon Leung Chun-ying, Honorary Doctor of Social Science, Professor Hiroshi Amano, Honorary Doctor of Science, and Dame Madeleine Atkins, Honorary Doctor of Social Science. Please click here for the biographies of the 2024 Honorary Doctorates.
Nature Conference
The Nature Conference titled 鈥淧hase Engineering of Nanomaterials鈥? which is being organised by the Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy and the Hong Kong Branch of the National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center, is dedicated to sharing knowledge and generating discussion on the phase-dependent properties of different nanomaterials. To be held from 20 to 22 November, the conference will cover chemical synthesis, processing, characterisation, and phase engineering of transition metal dichalcogenides and other nanomaterials. For more information, please visit here.
HKIAS Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor Marc Fontecave, Senior Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS), Professor at the Coll貓ge de France, and Member of the French Academy of Sciences, will deliver a lecture titled 鈥淔rom Nature to Chemistry: Bioinspired catalysis for CO2 valorization鈥?on 18 November. Professor Fontecave will discuss important achievements in research using CO2 reduction to design original and stable molecular catalysts since the first report of an active complex in 2015. For more information, please visit here.
Professor Chen Hesheng, Senior Fellow at the HKIAS and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will conduct a lecture titled 鈥淭he Southern Advanced Photon Source鈥?on 20 November. Professor Chen will reveal the latest progress on the planning and construction of the Southern Advanced Photon Source, including the accelerator and beam lines design of its fourth generation medium-energy photon source. For more information, please visit here.
Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Senior Fellow at the HKIAS and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, will deliver a lecture titled 鈥淪teps Towards Complex Matter: From Supramolecular Chemistry Towards Adaptive Chemistry鈥?on 25 November. Professor Lehn will elaborate on the definition of constitutional dynamic chemistry, and its implementation leading to the emergence of adaptive and evolutive chemistry.
France-Hong Kong Distinguished Lecture Series
Professor G茅rard Berry, Member of the French Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Technologies, will give a lecture titled 鈥淭ime and events in Computer Science鈥?on 6 November. In the talk, Professor Berry will provide a comprehensive review of key concepts in Computer Science, discussing the design, semantics and applications of the new domain of Reactive Programming. For more information, please visit here.
Kudos
Mr Yuen Chun-pong, 2024 graduate from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE), has been awarded the Outstanding Power and Energy Engineering Graduate Award by the Power and Energy Section, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Hong Kong. Recognised for his outstanding academic achievements and strong leadership skills, Mr Yuen鈥檚 Final Year Project (FYP) was titled 鈥淯se of Hardware-in-the-Loop to Design a Maximum Power Point Tracking PV System鈥? supervised by Professor Henry Chung Shu-hung of EE.
Mr Yuen was also one of two graduates from EE who were successful in the HKEIA Innovation & Technology Project Competition Award 2024. His FYP won the bronze award, while Mr Duan Weilun鈥檚 FYP titled 鈥淎n iPhone Obstacle Detector App for the Visually Impaired鈥?won the Merit Prize. His project was supervised by Professor Kelvin Yuen Shiu-yin of EE.
A paper titled 鈥淎daptive Level-Shift Gate Driver with Indirect Gate Oxide Health Monitoring for Suppressing Crosstalk of SiC MOSFETs鈥?won the second-place prize in the 2023 Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Award held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Co-authored by Professor Henry Chung Shu-hung and PhD student Tang Ho-tin, both of EE, and Professor Kevin J. Chen of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the paper was among nine selected to receive the prize out of 89 nominations.
A team led by Professor Derrick Jiang and comprising of Dr Mo Liping, a post-doc in EE, PhD students Ma Tianlu and Wang Yibo, all from EE, has won the Third Prize in China (Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition 2024 with their project titled 鈥淓lectric Vehicle: Next-generation Nanocrystalline Smart Wireless EV Charger鈥? Organised by the Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality, the competition aims to serve as a platform to discover and support high-potential innovative enterprises and projects.
Mahir Labib, a Year 4 student from the Department of Computer Science, won the Second Runner-up in the Kowloon Chamber of Commerce鈥檚 New Century Elite Development Programme with teammates from other local universities. Mahir鈥檚 team was among the top 15 finalist teams selected for an exchange trip to Malaysia where they had the unique opportunity to visit local companies and participate in a challenging Business Case Final Competition.