Congratulations to Prof. Michael Leung, Dr. Edwin Tso and Dr. Wei Wu for winning the HKIE Best Transactions Paper Prize 2021! They jointly published a paper entitled “Chillers of air-conditioning systems: An overview” in the HKIE Transactions. This paper discusses the technical details of the latest chiller technologies that help engineers design air-conditioning systems for high energy efficiency and sustainability. Two other co-authors are Dr. Zhanying Zheng and Dr. Jingyu Cao (SEE post-docs).
It is with much pleasure to announce the visiting appointment of Dr. Xin Xiaying at SEE.
Dr. Xin recently joined the State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (SKLMP), CityU, as Research Assistant Professor. She is also holding a concurrent appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in SEE.
Dr. Edwin Tso, Assistant Professor, was interviewed by TVB (Television Broadcasts Limited) to showcase his innovation on thermochromic smart window. The interview was aired at Channel 85 TVB Finance & Information Channel – Innovation GPS, on 8 September 2021.
Mr. Albert Lau shared with the SEE community one of the clean energy solutions – Hydrogen. He mentioned the Scalable Si+ Hydrogen power plant and compared it with other off grid power solutions.
He also encouraged SEE students to open up their minds, see the world, discover where their interests lie and change the world together. The talk was well received with close to a hundred participants.
Congratulations to the SEE PhD students and Postdoc in winning the Championship in the SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Contest (Hong Kong Chapter)!
Winning Team:
Mr. Zhu Yihao, Martin (PhD student)
Mr. Lin Kaixin, Johnny (PhD Student)
Dr. Lee Hau Him, William (Postdoc)
The following SEE PhD students and research assistants formed into a team and won the 1st runner up in the PG session in Young Professionals Exhibition & Competition 2021 (https://booth.ietypec.org/).
Following its earlier announcement of the launch of the flagship innovation and entrepreneurship programme “HK Tech 300” with an allocation of HK$500M, CityU held the HK Tech 300 Seed Fund Presentation Ceremony on 29 July 2021, presenting seed funds with the total sum of HK$6.5M. The scheme, which was launched in March, covers fields including information and communications technology, artificial intelligence, biotech and health, education and financial technologies. It is expected to last at least three years and benefit a total of 300 start-up teams.
