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CityU’s huge success at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days 2022; top among local universities for the second year
Researchers at CityU received tremendous accolades at Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days (IGED) 2022 by winning a total of 22 awards, the highest number among local institutions for two years in a row.

Pioneering embedded system and software designs
Professor Kuo Tei-wei, Lee Shau Kee Chair Professor of Information Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering, has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of his achievements as a pioneer in system and software designs of non-volatile memory.

Four students from CityU won the Innovation and Technology Scholarship 2021, receiving HK$150,000 each for activities including overseas exchange, local internship and mentorship programmes.

Aspiring to serve underprivileged communities in Hong Kong, two outstanding undergraduates from CityU stood out among participants from other local universities to win the HSBC Overseas Scholarship 2021/22.

A research collaboration on geotechnical structures in hydraulic engineering and another one on video coding technology developed at CityU have won major Ministry of Education awards.

Adopting a student-centred approach to acquiring knowledge is the teaching philosophy mutually shared by the Teaching Excellence Award winners at CityU this year.

A gifted computer science student at CityU has received the Outstanding ICT Rising Star Award from the Hong Kong Computer Society.

Encouraging students to apply their knowledge to society is the key teaching philosophy shared among this year’s Teaching and Excellence Award winners at CityU.

CityU’s Department of Computer Science has won several best paper awards at recent international conferences.

Ten faculty members from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have been named as Highly Cited Researchers for 2018 by Clarivate Analytics.

Four CityU students have been crowned champions in the Social Innovation CEO Competition for their idea to hire senior citizens as local tour guides.

A CityU-led research project on cloud security has been awarded HKD5.98 million in the Collaborative Research Fund in the 2016–17 exercise.

Professor Wang Jun in the Department of Computer Science has received the 2016 Achievement Award at an national science and technology award ceremony.

CityU is helping to promote computational thinking and coding among primary school students.

About 600 scientists, scholars and researchers congregated at the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics held at CityU from 9 to 12 October.

Over 500 high school students competed in the Fifth CityU-CS Robocode Contest in November.

Virtual robots competed against each other in the final contest of the fourth CityU-CS Robocode Contest held at CityU.

New learning spaces at CityU in support of the Discovery-enriched Curriculum will give students the chance to create, test and communicate ideas.

A CityU computer science graduate has been offered a position as a software engineer at Google’s US headquarters due to his outstanding performance in an international programming competition.

A Computer Science PhD student at CityU won the Best Paper Award at the 2012 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia.