We are excited to announce that Prof. ZHANG Lin has been chosen as one of the 18 global leaders to participate in the 2024 SUSI (Study of the U.S. Institutes) for Scholars program on U.S. economics and sustainable development. The SUSI for Scholars program is a premier academic exchange program of the U.S. Department of State that aims at enhancing leadership skills and deepening understanding of U.S. institutions and culture.
Prof. Edwin Tso, School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at CityU, and his team that composed of other 3 members from the industry won the Grand Prize under the Innovation Category (Sub-category – All Member Group) at the HKIE Grand Award 2024. The award-winning project is titled “iPaint AI and Related Best Practices”.
We are delighted to announce that Professor Alicia AN’s Innovation and Technology Fund Support Programme Partnership Research Programme project, titled “Green Hydrogen-Powered Off-Grid Energy-Water Station (Micro-Grid)”, has been approved for funding with a budget of HKD 5,999,790 plus provisions for Postdoctoral researchers over three years. The total funding will be about HKD 12 million.
Prof. Jason Lam’s team invented a methodology to synthesize a valuable chemical, gamma-butyrolactone (GBL), using a feedstock derived from biomass yard waste, furoic acid. The work is published in Nature Communications, titled “One-pot redox cascade paired electrosynthesis of gamma-butyrolactone from furoic acid”.
The Office of the Vice-President (Research) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) proudly announces a special event dedicated to promoting and celebrating the remarkable achievements of women and girls in the field of science and technology. In alignment with the upcoming International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, 2024, CityU organized an inspiring photo shoot that beautifully captures the strength and brilliance of our female faculty members.
A groundbreaking study on thermochromic smart windows titled “Mask-Inspired Moisture-Transmitting and Durable Thermochromic Perovskite Smart Windows” has recently been published in Nature Communications. This research addresses the two main challenges hindering the development of thermochromic perovskite smart windows, namely, poor durability and optical blurriness. Prof.
Prof. Chunhua Liu and Dr. Kuo Feng have been awarded two prestigious awards by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for their groundbreaking research. The paper, titled “Distributed Hierarchical Control for Fast Frequency Restoration in VSG-Controlled Islanded Microgrids”, published in the IEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society (OJIES), has earned them the 2023 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE OJIES.
Congratulations to Mr. Yong Chen, PhD student of Prof. Chunhua Liu, Professor, School of Energy and Environment, for receiving the award of best presenter for the paper titled “Predictive Control of Five-leg Inverter Driving Dual PMSMs for Overcurrent Suppression” in 2023 IEEE 6th Student Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (IEEE SCEMS 2023).
Development of Dual Ammonia Removal/Recovery from Sludge Digestate using a Novel Hollow Fiber/Flat Sheet Membrane Distillation led by Prof. Alicia An and Prof. Shauhrat S. CHOPRA
Under the supervision of Prof. Edwin TSO, two talented alumni of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have been awarded for their distinguished achievement. Mr. Choi Man Ho and Mr. Cheung Tim Yiu have won the Gold Award with the Electricity-free Cooling Technology of i2Cool Limited, a technology startup incubated by CityU HK Tech 300, at the 3rd Asia Exhibition of Innovations and Inventions Hong Kong (AEII) by the Hong Kong Exporters’ Association (HKEA).
