Electronic and Computer Engineering

As a 2020 Young Scientist, Prof. Shi Ling joins a community of the most forward-thinking and celebrated scientific minds in the world.
As a 2020 Young Scientist, Prof. Shi Ling joins a community of the most forward-thinking and celebrated scientific minds in the world. 
Engineering faculty members shared their experiences and research efforts to fight COVID-19 in a joint webinar with the University of Strathclyde.
Engineering faculty members shared their experiences and research efforts to fight COVID-19 in a joint webinar with the University of Strathclyde. 
Fostering Global Exchanges
The team has successfully made the prototype of the “super human eye” – an artificial visual system that uses a spherical biomimetic electrochemical eye with hemispherical retina made of a high-density perovskite nanowire array. From left: Swapnadeep Poddar, Shu Lei, Zhang Daquan, Prof. Fan Zhiyong, Dr. Gu Leilei and Long Zhenghao.
The team has successfully made the prototype of the “super human eye” – an artificial visual system that uses a spherical biomimetic electrochemical eye with hemispherical retina made of a high-density perovskite nanowire array. From left: Swapnadeep Poddar, Shu Lei, Zhang Daquan, Prof. Fan Zhiyong, Dr. Gu Leilei and Long Zhenghao. 
Prof. Kei May Lau is the 2020 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Nick Holonyak Jr. Award.
Prof. Kei May Lau is the 2020 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Nick Holonyak Jr. Award. 
The research team (from right) – Prof. Matthew McKay, Professor at HKUST’s Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering and Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering; Dr. Ahmed Abdul Quadeer, Research Associate at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering; and Mr. Syed Faraz Ahmed, PhD student – recently identified a set of potential vaccine targets which could be helpful for the development of a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The research team (from right) – Prof. Matthew McKay, Professor at HKUST’s Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering and Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering; Dr. Ahmed Abdul Quadeer, Research Associate at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering; and Mr. Syed Faraz Ahmed, PhD student – recently identified a set of potential vaccine targets which could be helpful for the development of a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. 
Data Analytics to Guide Experimental Efforts
Prof. Tim Woo
Prof. Tim Woo 
(From left) Andrea Madotto, Prof. Pascale Fung and Wu Chien-Sheng received an Outstanding Paper Award at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for a paper co-authored with Salesforce Research collaborators.
(From left) Andrea Madotto, Prof. Pascale Fung and Wu Chien-Sheng received an Outstanding Paper Award at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for a paper co-authored with Salesforce Research collaborators. 
Prof. Patrick Yue demonstrates a wirelessly powered visible light communication (WP VLC) system designed by his graduate students.
Prof. Patrick Yue demonstrates a wirelessly powered visible light communication (WP VLC) system designed by his graduate students. 
Advancing Visible Light Communication