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Group news: Celebration
December 22, 2021
Min Yang successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Yang!
Chenyu will start her academic career soon at Shandong University. Congratulations, Prof. Yao!
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Group news: Award
September 24, 2021
Our spin-off, LaSense Technology Ltd., wins the first runner up in the CUHK Entrepreneurship Competition 2021.
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Invited talk by Prof. Ren
September 23, 2021
Wei Ren gives an invited talk on laser-based gas sensing techniques at the 1st CUHK Innovation Day. Our project of highly sensitive gas sensing system is featured in the exhibition.
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New grant awarded
August 23, 2021
Wei Ren is awarded China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund (国家优秀青年科学基金) 2021 to develop novel laser diagnostics for flow fields.
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Invited talk by Prof. Ren
July 21, 2021
Wei Ren gives an invited talk at the 5th National Laser Spectroscopic Technology Meeting, Dalian, China.
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Invited talk by Prof. Ren
July 3, 2021
Wei Ren gives an invited talk (Webinar) at the 26th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference, Hong Kong.
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New grant awarded
June 30, 2021
Wei Ren is awarded the RGC GRF grant for developing novel gas sensors.
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New grant awarded
May 1, 2021
Wei Ren is awarded a new ITF grant (科技部国家重点研发计划-政府间国际科技创新合作重点专项) for developing intelligent sensing system for energy saving and pollutant monitoring.
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Invited talk by Prof. Ren
Mar. 29, 2021
Wei Ren gives an invited talk (Webinar) to the Mechanical Engineering Department, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
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New group members
May 3, 2021
Dr. Yongbin Ji joins our group as a postdoc researcher, and new PhD students Mr. Yue Yan and Ms. Qinxue Nie join us. Welcome!
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Group news: Award
Mar. 23, 2021
We receive gold medal for developing Highly Sensitive Gas Sensing and Control System in the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2021 (CUHK news).
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LaSense news
Jan. 19, 2021
LaSense Technology, the spin-off company from our lab, completes the multi-million yuan angel round of financing to apply laser-based sensors for energy industry (36Kr news).