Co-founders of i2Cool Limited, Dr. Edwin Tso (Assistant Professor) and PhD alumnus, Dr. Martin Zhu, have been awarded the Gold Prize in the TERA-Award Smart Energy Innovation Competition. This prestigious award recognizes their revolutionary Electricity-free cooling technology, for which they would receive USD$1 million as the winners.
Congratulations to Mr. Choi Man Ho Ivan, a final-year BEng Environmental Science and Engineering student of School of Energy and Environment (SEE), for receiving the Gold Award in the “Ecological Conservation and Sustainable Development” category of the 13th Challenge Cup Chinese University Student Entrepreneurship Competition with his project “Electricity-free Cooling Technology”.
Emaar, one of the world's largest real estate developers, wanted to collaborate with startups to address environmental challenges in the real estate and construction industries. The Emaar Innovation Challenge received over 240 applications from 43 regions and countries.
Under the supervision of Professor Michael Leung, Miss Felice Adeline Yau, a recent graduate of BEng Environmental Science and Engineering (EVE) won the Championship in the 2021-2022 Best Final-Year Environmental Project (Individual Project) Competition, organized by the Environmental Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) with her final-year project titled “Hydrogen Production of Pt-TiO2 Nanotubes from Butyric Acid Photoreforming”.
SEE PhD student Miss Yuwei Du and Postdoc Mr. Sai Liu from Dr. Edwin Tso’s research group were interviewed by Fengshows regarding their developed intelligent thermal-responsive window for building thermal management and energy saving.
Congratulations to Dr. Jin Shang, Associate Professor of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE), who has been conferred the “Young Scientist Award” at the inaugural International Congress on Separation and Purification Technology (ISPT2022) in recognition of his research excellence in Catalysis and Adsorption-based Separations.
Under the supervision of Dr. Edwin Tso, the team formed by Miss Yuwei Du (PhD student), Dr. Sai Liu (Postdoc) and Dr. Yihao Zhu (Postdoc) won the Gold Award in the 8th China International College Students 'Internet+' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. This Gold Award winning team will be the only team representing Hong Kong to participate in the national Quarter Finals.
After the CityU HK Tech 300 Seed Fund (2021) success, Dr. Alicia An’s team, including Dr. Jiaxin Guo (Postdoc), Dr. Pak Wai Wong (Postdoc) and Mr. Jiawei Sun (PhD) shone in the HKSTP Incubation Programme (2023)
According to metrics compiled by Stanford University and the updated data published on 10 October 2022, eighteen faculty members of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) are listed among the top 2% of the world’s most highly cited scientists (i.e., top 2% in the world in their own areas of specialty), that equates to around 50% of the School’s entire faculty body. This exciting news reflects our faculty’s high academic standards and excellent research performance. This year’s 18 top 2% scientists from SEE are, in alphabetical order, Dr.
