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Wearable technology that tracks a person’s vitals and health indicators is not unusual nowadays, but engineering researchers have taken the tech a big step further for more accurate and complex personal monitoring.
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Outstanding Researcher Awards 2024-25
Twelve winners were awarded in the 2024-25 Outstanding Researcher Awards Scheme, the annual awards for research excellence which aim to recognise, honour and reward exceptional work in research by HKU staff. Awardees were celebrated at a presentation ceremony in April 2026.
HKUMed Prof Kathryn Cheah Elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
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HKU Engineer Jiawei Zhou Receives 2026 Croucher Innovation Award
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Nobel Laureate Prof Ferenc Krausz Elected as NAS International Member
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HKU's Global Excellence in THE World University Subject Rankings 2026
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Fields Medalist Professor Ngô Bảo Châu Joins HKU as Chair Professor
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Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Andre Geim Joins HKU as Chair Professor
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HKU Physicists Awarded 2025 Brillouin Medal for Discovery in Phononics
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HKU Achieves Record High with 54 Highly Cited Researchers
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HKU Professor Max Shen elected as International Member of CAE
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