Research Highlights
HKU Engineer Receives 2025 Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award
Professor Chao Xiang, Assistant Professor of HKU's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, has been honoured with the 2025 Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award for his pioneering research in silicon photonics, specifically his work on “integrating lasers for advanced photonic integrated circuits".
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Outstanding Researcher Awards 2023-24
Seventeen winners were awarded in the 2023-24 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 March 2025.
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HKU Shines in 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject
In the 2025 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject, HKU has four subjects ranked top 10 globally, with Dentistry and Education in 2nd and 3rd place, and Linguistics and Geography ranking 9th and 10th. Locally, HKU leads in 33 out of 50 subjects, accounting for two-thirds of the 50 HKU subjects ranked.
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