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US National Academy of Inventors: Professor Ron Hui 許樹源 (left), Philip K H Wong Wilson K L Wong Professor in Electrical Engineering, is the only representative from a Hong Kong university to be named in the 2018 class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors. Details. U21 Award: Professor John Spinks (middle), Senior Advisor to the President and Director of Undergraduate Admissions, received the "U21 Award" from Universitas21 (U21) in recognition of his sustained contribution to the internationalisation of HKU. U21 is a leading global network of research-intensive universities. Details. Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship Award: Professor Sydney Tang 鄧智偉 (MBBS 1991, MD 2001, PhD 2005), Chair of Renal Medicine and Yu Professor in Nephrology, Department of Medicine, was honoured by The Croucher Foundation for excellent scientific research achievements related of kidney disease. Details.
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Institute of the Mind launched with $150 million donation HKU will establish an Institute of the Mind to take on the grand challenge of studying the science and art of human wisdom. The Institute has been made possible thanks to a generous donation of HK $150 million by Dr the Hon Lee Shau-Kee 李兆基, GBM, Chairman of Henderson Land Group, through the Lee Shau Kee Foundation. "The institute will establish a technology platform with a human-society-machine interface. Cross-faculty and inter-disciplinary research teams will be assembled to study qualitative and quantitative human wisdom. It will lead to the next generation's information technology, and re-define multiple core industries including automobile, internet, medical diagnosis, energy, etc, and foster social advancement," Professor Xiang Zhang said. Details.
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Collaboration with MTR on railway operation big data analysis Professor Andy Hor, Vice-President (Research) and Mr Adi Lau, Operations Director of MTR, signed a memorandum of understanding on developing solutions to enhance railway operations using image analysis, forecasting, image and data visualisation, and big data analytics. |
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A Path Twice Traveled: My Journey as a Historian of China Jan 8 Professor Paul A. Cohen, one of the West's pre-eminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from the 1960s to the present day in this memoir. He is an Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and Visiting Scholar at HKU’s Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Details. |
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HKU-Ivey Executive Leadership Program in Data Analytics and Big Data (DABD) Early Bird by Jan 10 Empowered by recent cases on Goggle Flu, IBM, Netflix, SF Express, etc, the program will enable executives to use data to drive their operational and strategic decision-making, and create more value for their businesses. Special 5% discount for HKU and Ivey alumni, or more than three registrations from the same company. |
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