Professor Philip Yu from MIT attends award ceremony for gifted students organised by HKAGE
To show appreciation for the support of its work, HKAGE gives a certificate of appreciation to its partner organisations. Professor Philip Yu, second from right, represents MIT to receive the certificate.
To show appreciation for the support of its work, HKAGE gives a certificate of appreciation to its partner organisation.
Professor Philip Yu Leung-ho from the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology (MIT) was invited to attend the Academy Awards for the Gifted 2024 Ceremony hosted by the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education (HKAGE) on 11 July. More than 100 students who have outstanding performance in local, mainland, and international competitions, as well as HKAGE alumni who have made substantial contributions to the academy and society were commended at the ceremony. HKAGE also took the opportunity to thank MIT and its other collaborators in supporting its work of nurturing the city’s gifted students.
“The Academy Awards for the Gifted 2024 event is a culmination of the great work HKAGE has been doing in nurturing Hong Kong's brightest young minds. I'm honoured to have been invited to attend and witness the achievements of these exceptional students,” Professor Yu said. The professor conducts research in a wide spectrum of topics including ranking data, data mining, AI and big data analytics, time series analysis, financial data analysis and risk management, and ranked set sampling. He also demonstrates a keen interest in promoting STEM and AI education among young people in Hong Kong.
Professor Philip Yu has a longstanding relationship with HKAGE, and helped cement an agreement on forming a collaborative framework between MIT and HKAGE back in March 2021. Since 2021, MIT has organised a wide range of learning activities under the agreement to unlock the full potential of Hong Kong’s gifted students. The agreement has been recently renewed and extended to 31 August 2026. At the ceremony on 11 July, HKAGE presented a certificate of appreciation to MIT and its other partner organisations to express its gratitude.
Since 2021, MIT has organised a series of learning activities for gifted students from HKAGE. In the photo, students from the MA(MP) programme deliver their designed STEM lesson at a workshop organised for HKAGE students.
Students from the MSc(AI&EdTech) programme taught STEM lessons to gifted students taking part in HKAGE learning activities.
The photo is one of the learning activities organised by MIT at EdUHK’s Taipo campus for gifted students.
Dr Jimmy Wong, Executive Director of the HKAGE, right, presents a souvenir flag of HKAGE flag to Dr Manpreet Singh from MIT, left, and Professor Yu, centre, to thank them for organising the lessons for HKAGE students. Dr Singh teaches Data Mining in STEM Education for MA(MP) programme and Professor Yu teaches Data Mining in STEM Education for MSc(AI&EdTech) programme.
One of these activities was a workshop where top-performing students selected from MIT’s Master of Arts in Mathematics and Pedagogy (MA(MP)) and Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Educational Technology (MSc(AI&EdTech)) programmes custom-designed and taught STEM lessons to nearly a hundred gifted primary and secondary school students. “While gifted students learnt new ideas about STEM, students from MIT gained valuable teaching experience and sharpened their communication and presentation skills,” Professor Yu said.
Subvented by the Education Bureau of the HKSAR Government, the HKAGE was founded in 2007 as a non-profit organisation to provide off-school gifted education programmes for local gifted students aged 10 to 18 to realise their potential across academic and non-academic areas. It collaborates with schools and universities in Hong Kong, as well as experts from around the world to achieve its mission. HKAGE also aims to support teachers, parents, and researchers in the field of gifted education.
