MAY2025 Vinci Ying Jia Cheung, a PhD candidate supervised by Prof G.C.S. Lin, has been awarded the 2024 HKAUW Kunpeng Postgraduate Scholarship, granted by the Hong Kong Association of University Women (HKAUW). The HKAUW Kunpeng Postgraduate Scholarship is a prestigious scholarship that recognizes female postgraduate students who conduct high-quality original research that significantly contributes to society and the body of knowledge. This scholarship, awarded through a rigor

Team Glory: HKU Geography won the 2025 Esri Young Scholars Award (Hong Kong)! A team of five students from the Master of Science in Geospatial Data Science (MSc(GeoDS)) programme at the University of Hong Kong, including Li Junpeng, Qian Jiachun, Wang Fangqi, Xin Mingxuan, and Zhu Muyi, won the group championship in the 2025 Esri Young Scholars Award competition with their project 'Mapping Despair: Geographic Insights into Suicide in HK'! This honour not only certifies the te

APR2025 Mr. Sun has recently been honored with two prestigious awards at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG): the Annual Meeting Award from the Applied Geography Specialty Group and the Peter Gould Paper Competition Award from the Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group. The latter is especially notable, as it is widely regarded as the most prestigious student paper award in health geography. It is an extraordinary accomplishment for an un

JAN2025 We are thrilled to share that our Ph.D. student, Mr. Shuai YUAN (supervised by Prof. Peng GONG), has been awarded the HKU Research Postgraduate Student Innovation Award 2024/25 (up to 10 awards) for his project titled “Revealing the Energy Transition Process in the Greater Bay Area from 2000 to 2020 by Satellite Images and Deep Learning.” This research utilizes advanced satellite imagery and deep learning techniques to construct a comprehensive energy plants dataset a

DEC2024 Congratulations! One Ph.D. student in our department was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Student Basic Research Program (Ph.D. candidate) Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has determined the list of projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the Young Student Basic Research Program (Ph.D. Candidate) ((國家自然科學基金青年學生基礎研究項目 (博士研究生)) in 2024. One Ph.D. student in our department, M

JUL2024 We are delighted to share the wonderful news of our PhD candidate, Mr. Jeffrey Chang (supervised by Prof. Nicky Lam), winning an award in the inaugural "HKU Impact: Social Media Competition" organized by the Knowledge Exchange Office (KEO) of HKU. Mr. Chang’s video, titled "Incorporating Citizen Science and High-Resolution Regional Climate Models in Urban Heat and Pollution Island Diagnostics," has been awarded First-Runner-up. This project integrates urban extreme he

22MAY2024 We are delighted to announce that our research postgraduate students, Miss Grace Hiu Ling Yeung (PhD candidate) and Mr. David Ho Cheung Ho (MPhil candidate), under the supervision of Professor Benjamin L. Iaquinto, have achieved remarkable success. Along with their teammate, Miss Ally Hei Lam Ho from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, they participated in this year's 'Kubuqi Award' competition. Their exceptional performance secured them the position of first runne

MAY2024 We are excited to announce that our PhD student, Mr. CHANG Man Hei Jeffrey (Supervisor: Professor Nicky Lam), has been awarded the Champion (First Place) in the AAG Climate Speciality Group (CSG) Student Paper Competition with his outstanding paper entitled "Integrating geography-STEM education and numerical modeling into urban microclimate analytics." Notably, Jeffrey is the first non-US postgraduate student to receive this prestigious award since the competition's i

APR2024 We are thrilled to announce that our PhD student, Ms. Ling Jing (Supervisor: Professor Hongsheng Zhang), has won 2nd Place in the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group's Student Honors Paper Competition. Her outstanding paper, titled "Synergizing Radar and Optical Data for Accurate Urban Impervious Surface Mapping in Cloud-Prone Areas," showcases the high standard of research conducted at our department and The University of Hong Kong. We extend our warmest congratulatio

OCT2023 Mr. Zijing Shen's paper entitled "Framing Urban Living Labs as a Multi-dimensional Knowledge Model: Experiences from Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park", advised by Dr Qian Junxi, has been selected as the Winner of Best Doctoral Student Paper Award of the Urban China Research Network Conference 2023

JUL2023 Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Xu Zhang, for receiving the prestigious HKU Foundation Publication Award for Research Postgraduate Students 2023! We're proud of your achievement.

JUN2023 Congratulations to the following four Geography undergraduate students (in alphabetical order of surname) for being accepted to participate in the Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme (URFP) 2023-2024: Mr. CHEUNG Tsz Wun on “An GIS approach towards the potential area for developing cycling facilities” under the supervision of Dr Yongsung Lee. Miss FUNG Hoi Wing on “Exploring gentrification and cultural change: a study of neighbourhood changes in Kennedy Town” u

MAR2023 Our PhD candidate, Mr. JIANG Ronghao (Primary Supervisor: Professor George C.S. Lin) has been awarded the Dissertation Year Fellowship. Congratulations!

MAR2023 Mr. Jeffrey Chang (Primary Supervisor: Dr. Nicky Lam), has been awarded the prestigious Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships (for Postgraduate Research Students). Congratulations!

JAN2023 Our PhD candidate, Mr. CHANG Man Hei Jeffrey (Primary Supervisor: Dr. Nicky Lam), has been awarded the University’s Research Postgraduate Student Innovation Awards over the competitive pool of research proposal submission from RPG students in nine HKU faculties. A research grant of HK$50,000 is awarded to Mr. Chang as the Principal Investigator for his project entitled: “Assessing hotspots at local school communities with low-cost IoT devices and FLIR unmanned aerial