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Prof. SHEN Yajing Developed Liquid Metal-Based Electronic Logic Device that Mimics Intelligent Prey-Capture Mechanism of Venus Flytrap

The intelligent strategies and logic mechanisms in the device provide a fresh perspective on understanding “intelligence” in nature and offer inspiration for the development of “embodied intelligence”.

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HKUST Researchers Enhance Performance of Eco-Friendly Cooling Applications by Developing Sustainable Strategy to Manipulate Interfacial Heat Transfer

Prof. ZHOU Yanguang’s research team has developed a sustainable and controllable strategy to manipulate interfacial heat transfer, paving the way for improving the performance of eco-friendly cooling in various applications such as electronics, buildings and solar panels.

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Prof. Sherry CHEN Xian Achieved Multi-Million Cycle Fatigue Life in Superelastic Bulk Alloy

A research team led by Associate Professor Sherry CHEN Xian of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering made a significant breakthrough in the field of mechanics and material science by introducing a bulk alloy that exhibits exceptional deformability without experiencing strain hardening, even after undergoing 10 million cycles of tensile stress-induced phase transformation.

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HKUST Researchers Develop Revolutionary Biomimetic Olfactory Chips to Enable Advanced Gas Sensing and Odor Detection

A School of Engineering research team has developed biomimetic olfactory chips (BOC) that are able to integrate nanotube sensor arrays on nanoporous substrates with up to 10,000 individually addressable gas sensors per chip, a configuration that is similar to how olfaction works for humans and other animals.

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Prof. ZHANG Jun’s Research on Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning Published in Nature Communications

A research paper on “Selective Knowledge Sharing for Privacy-Preserving Federated Distillation Without a Good Teacher”, co-authored by Prof. ZHANG Jun, Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), and his former PhD student Dr. SHAO Jiawei, was published in leading multidisciplinary journal Nature Communications.

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Prof. Kevin CHEN Fabricated a First-of-Its-Kind GaN/SiC Hybrid Field-Effect Transistor

Prof. Kevin CHEN Jing and his research team from the Electronic and Computer Engineering Department have fabricated a gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) hybrid field-effect transistor called HyFET. Their work was featured in IEEE Spectrum, titled “Is This Hybrid Tech the Future of Power Electronics?”

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HKUST Researchers Develop a Versatile, Reconfigurable, and Damage-Tolerant Single-Wire Sensor Array

By mimicking the human ear’s ability to distinguish sounds through tonotopy, this innovative sensor array approach could optimize the application of sensor arrays in fields such as robotics, aviation, healthcare, and industrial machinery.

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Asian Deans' Forum 2024 | The Rising Stars Women in Engineering Workshop

Organized by HKUST and six top engineering schools in Asia-Pacific Region, this prestigious 3-day event is a great opportunity for young female engineers to explore the world of academia.

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The Rising Stars Women in Engineering Workshop

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