CUHK Faculty of Engineering and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to officially launch the “EngSeeds” programme for secondary school students. The programme aims to provide secondary school students with a systematic and inspiring engineering practice experience, helping them understand the engineering profession and plan their future academic and career development.

HKIE, in collaboration with partner universities and institutions, is launching a diverse range of experiential activities, including interactive workshops, industry sharing sessions, and experiential learning. These activities cover cutting-edge fields such as construction and infrastructure, artificial intelligence, robotics, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), and biomedicine, allowing students to engage with engineering and STEAM knowledge in real-world engineering environments, inspiring creative thinking and cultivating problem-solving skills. The first round of activities will be held from June to September this year. Students who complete the entire program will receive a certificate jointly issued by the Society and partner institutions to recognize their learning outcomes.

More details: HKIE press release 

Two students from CUHK Faculty of Engineering have been awarded the Innovation and Technology Scholarship 2026. Established to recognise talented students with a passion for innovation and technology, the scholarship provides valuable opportunities to broaden their international perspectives and gain industry experience, encouraging them to pursue careers in the I&T sector.

Each awardee will receive up to HK$150,000 for participating in a series of elite training programmes, including the overseas/ Chinese Mainland attachment programme, the mentorship programme, the local internship programme, the service project programme, as well as the ideations and achievements showcase.

Among the six CUHK awardees, Cheung Yu-yan, a Year 3 student in the Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering plans to use the scholarship to explore digital living technologies, with a focus on the design of elderly‑friendly assistive devices and creative ideation projects that address the practical needs of elderly users. She said: “My core aspiration is to become a people-centric innovator in gerontechnology. I want to bridge academic research, clinical practice and the real, often unspoken needs of Hong Kong’s ageing population.”

Lam Kwan‑Tung, a Year 3 Bachelor of Engineering student in Artificial Intelligence: Systems and Technologies, will undertake a six-month research attachment at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in collaboration with the Nvidia AI Technology Centre, supported by the scholarship. She said: “This scholarship holds profound significance to me, as it offers an opportunity to connect and collaborate with brilliant minds across disciplines and institutions and to immerse myself in one of the world’s most dynamic research environments, bridging the best of academia and industry.”

About the Innovation and Technology Scholarship

The Innovation and Technology Scholarship was established by the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong Government, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups in 2011. Awardees are nominated by their universities and then selected by an Awardee Selection Committee with members from different sectors. There are 25 awardees per year.

More details: https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/six-cuhk-students-awarded-innovation-and-technology-scholarships-highest-among-participating-institutions/

Dr. Yifan Shang, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) and a Hong Kong Scholar, has been awarded the Best Poster Presentation Award at the Hong Kong Scholars Annual Symposium 2026, held in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on 16 May 2026. His winning presentation is titled “scMIR: a vision-language foundation model for single-cell light Microscopy Image Representation”.

Award-Winning Research

In the scMIR project, Dr. Shang first worked on assembling a large-scale, diverse single-cell microscopy dataset, spanning many cell types and microscopy modalities. Then, he develop a vision-language foundation model to learn general, biologically meaningful cell representations, transferable across classification, perturbation, and morphology-driven inference tasks. This work was conducted in the Laser Metrology and Biomedicine Laboratory at CUHK and jointly supervised by Prof. Renjie Zhou in the BME Department and Prof. Xiangxiang Zeng in the College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at Hunan University.   

About the Program

The Hong Kong Scholars Program is jointly launched by the Society of Hong Kong Scholars and the China National Postdoctoral Council under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. It aims at effectively pooling talent and research resources of Hong Kong and the Mainland to train outstanding postdoctoral fellows. Selected “Hong Kong Scholars” will come to Hong Kong to commence postdoctoral research work.