Drawing Rhythm from the Algorithm

Dr Hu Xiao has a unique understanding of the power of music. For more than 15 years, she has used data to unleash new possibilities from music. Two groundbreaking models she developed automatically recognise the mood of music and have received hundreds of citations...

Mind the Gap

Professor Nancy Law, Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Technology in Education, is leading an interdisciplinary team in a five-year longitudinal study – Hong Kong Students’ Digital Citizenship Development. The first wave of results has shown up serious...

Equal Opportunity

As the new ‘I’ of ‘inclusivity’ was unofficially added to the University’s mission statement in 2015, the question of instituting gender studies as an academic programme became central to the pursuit of establishing that inclusivity within the curriculum. In December...

New Graduate School Dean Brings a Sense of Belonging

A home base has figured highly in the career of Professor Frederick Leung Koon-shing, Chair Professor and Kintoy Professor in Mathematics Education. He grew up in Hong Kong, did his undergraduate and master’s degrees at HKU, and stepped into a Teaching Consultant job...

Playing the Long Game

The wicked witch in this particularly grim fairytale is the modern world – where parents are too busy to play with their children and where the only interaction occurring during play is between the child and his/her digital device, be it iPhone, iPad, or computer.This...