Achievements
CUHK achievements 2020
2020 certainly has been a challenging year. Despite the challenges, CUHK has been able to forge ahead and excel in many fronts, attaining noteworthy achievements in ranking results, scholarly awards, and student achievements. More than 60 faculty members and 170 students achieved local and worldwide recognitions.
Watch the video which highlights the achievements of CUHK in 2020 at CUTV or YouTube. For more details, please scroll down.
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- Reuter Asia Pacific’s Most Innovative Universities 2016-2019
1st in Hong Kong - ARWU Top Universities in Greater China 2020
1st in Hong Kong
3rd in Greater China - Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents
2nd in Hong Kong
71th in the World - U.S. News & World Report 2021
CUHK Computer Science in the Best Global Universities Rankings
1st in Hong Kong
11th in Worldwide - Financial Times Executive MBA Ranking 2020
CUHK EMBA ranks 15th Worldwide - Top 30 Joint Master Programmes in the Best China Business School 2020
– CUHK (Shenzhen) MBM Programme ranks No.1
– Tsinghua-CUHK MBA in Finance Programme ranks No.4 - Times Higher Education Most International Universities
5th Worldwide - Times Higher Education Rankings
8th in Asia
56th in the World - QS World University Rankings
10th in Asia
43th in the World
For details of the rankings, please click here.
- Reuter Asia Pacific’s Most Innovative Universities 2016-2019
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- 7 Jan 2020: Two CUHK Engineering Professors Elected IEEE Fellows 2020
- 17 Jan 2020 – 中大丘成桐教授獲選2019全球華僑華人年度人物 (Chinese version only)
- 24 Feb 2020: CUHK Engineering Scholars Recognised by Inclusion in AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List
- 27 May 2020: CUHK Young Scientist Receives National Funding on Stem Cell Research
- 30 May 2020: 中大醫學院盧煜明教授榮獲第二屆全國創新爭先獎 (Chinese version only)
- 8 Jun 2020: CUHK Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme Awarded the Zero Project 2020 Innovative Practice Award on Education
- 9 Jun 2020: Prof. Ming Yu Receives 2020 Microwave Application Award by IEEE MTT-S (English version only)
- 11 Sep 2020: CUHK Professor Dennis LO Receives 2021 Breakthrough Prize, an Honour Renowned as the “Oscars of Science”
- 17 Sep 2020: CUHK Professor Wayne LEE Receives The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Rising Star Award (English version only)
- 21 Sep 2020: Three CUHK Researchers Receive China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2020
- 28 Sep 2020: CUHK Outstanding Scholars Awarded 2020 UGC Teaching Award
- 29 Sep 2020: CUHK Mathematics Scholar Awarded the XPLORER PRIZE, Among First Hong Kong Recipients
- 30 Sep 2020: CUHK Faculty of Engineering Professor Michael R. Lyu Receives the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award
- 4 Oct 2020: Professor Tony Mok Recognised as a Giant of Cancer Care for His Remarkable Contribution in Advancing Global Healthcare in Lung Cancer
- 20 Oct 2020: CUHK Receives Three Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards
- 22 Oct 2020: CUHK Faculty of Engineering Professor Calvin Chan Elected Fellow of the Optical Society 2021
- 28 Oct 2020: CUHK Faculty of Engineering Develops Effective Energy Harvester Breaking through the Limitation of Battery Life of Smart Watches and Wristbands Earning International Recognition
- 29 Oct 2020: Two CUHK Scholars Named World’s “Top 20 Translational Researchers” Professor Dennis LO Receives the Honour for the Fourth Consecutive Year
- 10 Nov 2020: Professor Yi-Chun Lu Selected as the Top 10 Winners of Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year in Engineering & Technology (English version only)
- 16 Nov 2020: CUHK Members Receive Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020
- 18 Nov 2020: 11 CUHK Professors Named Most Highly Cited Researchers
- 9 Dec 2020: Professor Raymond Yeung Receives IEEE 2021 Richard W. Hamming Medal
- 14 Dec 2020: CUHK Faculty of Engineering Professor Wong Kam Fai Elected Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020
- 15 Dec 2020: CUHK Architecture One University One Village Team and Two Graduates Take Home HKIA Awards
- 15 Dec 2020: Centre for Clinical Research and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine Received Outstanding Social Capital Partnership Award (Corporate/Organization) Granted by the Labour and Welfare Bureau, Hong Kong SAR
- 15 Dec 2020: Centre for Clinical Research and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine Received Social Capital Builder Logo Award granted by the Labour and Welfare Bureau, Hong Kong SAR
- 22 Dec 2020: CU Medicine Scholar in Neuroscience Receives Croucher Innovation Award 2020
- 30 Dec 2020: Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme funded by UGC
- Professor Nathalie WONG, Faculty of Medicine led the project “Centre for Medical Engineering of Molecular and Biological Probes”
- Professor QIN Ling, Faculty of Medicine led the project “Aging, Skeletal Degeneration and Regeneration”
- Professor XU Jianbin, Department of Electronic Engineering and Professor YANG Sen, Department of Physics served as Co-PI in the project “2D Materials Research: Fundamentals Towards Emerging Technologies”
- 2020: Professor Zhao Changhong and Professor Jacque Ip Pak Kan were awarded RGC Early Career Award 2020
- 2020: Professor Bryan Mercurio was awarded RGC Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship 2020
- 2020: Professor Yu HUANG, Professor Jianfa SHEN and Professor Zuowei XIE received the inaugural RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme awards presented by RGC
- 2020: Professor Yilin WU received the inaugural RGC Research Fellow Scheme award presented by RGC
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- 9 Jan 2020: CUHK Study Sees the Exposure to Farm Environment Is Beneficial for Children to Prevent Asthma
- 20 Jan 2020: The Helmsley Charitable Trust Funds Asian Research into Babies’ Gut Microbiota and Crohn’s Disease
- 23 Jan 2020: CUHK Research Reveals Carbon Stores in Tidal Wetlands are 23% Larger than Previously Estimated
- 3 Feb 2020: CUHK Scientists Find Small Peptides Produced by Non-coding RNA Redefines Coding and Non-Coding RNAs
- 5 Feb 2020: Translating Basic Science Research to Clinical Application Microrobotic Swarms by CUHK Can Navigate in Bio-fluids
- 17 Mar 2020: CUHK Finds that the Coronavirus Can Persist in Stool after Its Clearance in Respiratory Tract Will Conduct Stool Test for People in Quarantine Camps for Early Identification
- 1 Apr 2020: CUHK Unveils Novel Mechanism of Neural Progenitor Competence Regulation Enlightening Path for Stem Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
- 8 Apr 2020: CUHK Proves and Visualises the Harmful Effect of Ozone Damage on Plants First Plant-based Measurement of Ozone in South China Region
- 13 Apr 2020: CUHK Study Finds Earlier Endoscopy Did Not Reduce Mortality and Risk of Further Bleeding in Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Patients
- 14 May 2020: CUHK in collaboration with West China School of Medicine co-Led World’s First-in-human Clinical Trial using CRISPR technology for lung cancer Confirmed gene-edited T-Cell Therapy is Safe and Feasible in Treatment of Advanced NSCLC
- 14 May 2020: Breakthrough by CUHK Engineering in Battery Research Electrolyte Made with Skin Cream Ingredients Enables Stable and Non-flammable Aqueous Li-ion Batteries
- 19 May 2020: CU Medicine Team Discovers a Novel Prognostic Biomarker for a Doubled Survival in Head and Neck Cancer
- 22 May 2020: CUHK and Japanese Scientists Unravel Full Genome of American Shorthair Domestic Cats Advances Precision Veterinary Medicine
- 25 May 2020: CUHK Engineering Team Reveals the Role of Water Vapour in Methanol Atmospheric Reaction Provides More Accurate Methods for Predicting Atmospheric Reactions
- 26 May 2020: CUHK Study Discovers Brain Circuitry That Generates Behavioural Responses to Stress Provide a Basis for Probing Abnormal Repetitive Behaviour Exhibited in Brain Disorders
- 28 May 2020: CUHK Study of Cantonese Lexical Tone Shows Language Evolution Possibly Linked to Genes
- 11 Jun 2020: CU Medicine Develops a Probiotic Formula to Target Imbalance in Gut Microbiota in COVID-19
- 21 Jun 2020: CUHK Researchers Decode Jellyfish Genomes and Discover the Presence of Sesquiterpenoid Hormones Help Unveil its Ecological Roles and Reproduction Mechanism
- 25 Jun 2020: CUHK Scientists Develop a Novel Technology for Generating Biocatalysts for Biodiesel Production
- 2 Jul 2020: CUHK Research Reveals that Methane Emissions can Reduce the Climate Benefits of Subtropical Mangrove Wetlands by Half
- 8 Jul 2020: CUHK Researchers Uncover Diabetes as a Potential Risk Factor for COVID-19, and Possible Mechanisms
- 16 Jul 2020: Insights into B-cells and GPR18 Gene Expression by CU Medicine team Improve Prediction of Survival in Multiple Cancer Types
- 20 Jul 2020: A Breakthrough in Photonic Integration by CUHK Engineering Team Facilitating High-speed Optical Communication to Meet the Increasing Demand
- 23 Jul 2020: A Breakthrough by CUHK Engineering and University of Warwick Teams T-ray Camera Speed Boosted a Hundred Times Over
- 4 Aug 2020: CUHK Pioneers Whole Genome Sequencing for Identifying the Chromosomal Abnormalities in Couples with Recurrent Miscarriages
- 5 Aug 2020: CU Medicine Study Shows Liver Injury is Common and Prognostic in COVID-19 Patients
- 11 Aug 2020: CU Medicine Researchers Discover Shortened DNA Telomere Length as a Useful Biomarker to Identify Patients with Diabetes at High Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
- 20 Aug 2020: CUHK Proves Modified HIFU Treatment Effective for Treating Uterine Fibroids
- 24 Aug 2020: CUHK Study Suggests Hot Nights Pose Greater Threat to Public Health than Hot Days Better Urban Planning Able to Mitigate the Impact
- 30 Aug 2020: New AI Approach by CUHK Engineering Investigates Multiple Gene Regulatory Mechanisms Concurrently For the Advancement of Biomedical Research
- 31 Aug 2020: Gravitational Waves can Show When Core of Dying Star Breaks Down into Free Quarks Helping Astronomers Explore the Origin of Life
- 1 Sep 2020: CUHK Study Finds Slow Earthquakes Behave Similarly to Regular Earthquakes Than Previously Thought Gives Scientists a Clearer Picture of How Energy Releases along Faults
- 2 Sep 2020: LIGO and Virgo Detect Gravitational Waves Produced by the Most Massive Black Hole Collision ever Observed CUHK the Only Institution in Hong Kong Involved in the Project
- 7 Sep 2020: CU Medicine Found SARS-CoV2 in Infants’ Stool A Coronavirus Testing Centre Is Established for Paediatric Population to Identify Silent Carriers
- 8 Sep 2020: A Joint Study by CUHK, PolyU and Western Sydney University Discovers how the Nervous System of Human Runners Generates More Energetically Efficient Running Forms
- 15 Sep 2020: CUHK Successfully Performed World’s First Colorectal Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Using Flexible Endoscopic Robotic System
- 24 Sep 2020: CU Medicine Studies Reveal Diabetes Death and Complication Rates Declining – but Not in the Young
- 7 Oct 2020: CUHK Professor Investigates Extremely Shallow Earthquake Related to Shale Gas Production in Sichuan
- 8 Oct 2020: CUHK Uncovers How Immune Cells Turn Bad A New Hope for Kidney Patients
- 19 Oct 2020: CU Medicine Finds An Increasing Global Trend on Pancreatic Cancer among Female and Younger Individuals
- 19 Oct 2020: CUHK and Canadian Researchers Find that Elderly People in Residential Care Suffer 3 Times Greater Risk of Falls than Those in Community Fall Motion Analysis Proves Hip Protectors Effective to Reduce Fracture Risk
- 27 Oct 2020: CUHK Develops “Universal Ink” for Direct Laser Writing of High-performance Electronics
- 10 Nov 2020: CU Medicine Studies Highlight Smoking as a Contributing Factor for Bladder Cancer and Develop an International Collaborative Consensus on En Bloc Resection to Treat the Disease
- 13 Nov 2020: CUHK and International Experts in Diabetes Care Joined Hands for Four Years Developing a Multicomponent, Integrated Strategy for Diabetes under The Lancet
- 17 Nov 2020: CUHK Chemists Devise a Novel Catalytic System to Help Design Chemical Compounds Enriches Chemistry Toolkit for Advanced Drug Synthesis
- 18 Nov 2020: CUHK Study Shows Exposure Settings Impact COVID-19 Transmission With Entertainment Setting Showing Propensity for Widespread Dispersion
- 19 Nov 2020: 40% of Hong Kong People Show Gut Dysbiosis Comparable to that of COVID-19 Patients CUHK Microbiome Immunity Formula Hastens Recovery of COVID-19 Patients and Offers Hope to Boost Immunity
- 1 Dec 2020: CUHK and HKU Jointly Develop MARVEL Data Analysis Method to Detect Pathogenic Genes of Hirschsprung’s Disease
- 10 Dec 2020: CUHK Introduces Nasal Strip Sampling for COVID-19 Test As a Superior Tool for Surveillance in a Wide Age-Range Population
- 10 Dec 2020: CUHK and University of Warwick Develop T-rays Technology To Analyse the Skin Conditions and Structure
- 15 Dec 2020: CUHK Develops Novel Microrobotic Diagnostic System to Accurately Diagnose Infectious Pathogens with Full Automation and Low Cost
- 17 Dec 2020: CU Medicine Studies Suggest Grass Carp as a Major Source of Fish Allergy in Hong Kong And Identify Novel Allergenic Marker Cten i 1 to Promote Accurate Diagnosis
- 22 Dec 2020: CUHK Faculty of Engineering Develops a Multilayer Roll-to-roll Printing System Achieving Submicron Overlay Accuracy for the First Time Ever Enabling Manufacturing of Low Cost Flexible Electronics
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- 20 Jan 2020 – CUHK Team Designs a Rapid Test for a Banana Disease and Wins Gold Award in iGEM Competition 2019
- 24 Mar 2020 – 112 CUHK Students Awarded Link University Scholarship
- 5 Apr 2020 – CUHK LAW Students Won the Championship of the 17th Willem C. Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot
- 31 May 2020 – Three CUHK Architecture PhD Students’ Papers About Healthy City Achieved “Most Cited Articles” in the Journal of Urban Climate
- 23 Jun 2020 – CUHK Students Win Top Awards at the 6th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
- 21 Jul 2020 – CUHK Graduate of Global Physician-Leadership Stream Receives Esther Yewpick Lee Millennium Scholarship to Pursue Clinical Research
- 8 Oct 2020 – CUHK PhD Student Wins the Championship at Global College AI Training Camp
- 28 Oct 2020 – Nine CUHK Students Awarded the Innovation and Technology Scholarship
- 15 Dec 2020 – CUHK Architecture One University One Village Team and Two Graduates Take Home HKIA Awards
- 21 Dec 2020: CUHK’s Fifteenth Rhodes Scholar Rachel Leung, medical graduate from S.H. Ho College
