Teaching Excellence Awards 2025 – Congratulations to the 2025 Teaching Excellence Awardees!
Source: https://tl.hku.hk/2025/12/teaching-excellence-awards-2025-recipients/ Parent: https://tl.hku.hk/plagiarism/
Teaching Excellence Awards 2025 – Congratulations to the 2025 Teaching Excellence Awardees!
Message from Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)
Dear colleagues and students
I am very pleased to announce the recipients of the University’s Teaching Excellence Awards 2025. The selection panel was deeply impressed with all the applicants’ unwavering commitment to teaching and the significant, positive impact they have had on student learning. The awardees provided exceptional stories of how their teaching experiences addressed unmet needs in innovative ways or how their teaching expressed outstanding examples of “best practice”. The selection panel was especially pleased with the high number and quality of applicants for the Early Career Teaching Award and celebrates the winners this year with full expectation that those not selected in this round have bright prospects of being future award recipients.
Outstanding Teaching Award (individual award)
- Dr. David R. Birks, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Dr. Hoi Hoi Cheung, Department of Data and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
- Mr. Beau L. Lefler, Faculty of Business and Economics
Early Career Teaching Award
- Dr. Vivian H.Y. Chu, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Dr. Ginger W.K. Ko, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
- Dr. Kin Sum Leung, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
- Dr. Michael B.C. Rivera, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Professor Tianren Yang, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture
Teaching Innovation Award (individual award)
- Professor Weiming Zhu, Faculty of Business and Economics, for “LLM-Assisted Coding as a Pedagogy”
Teaching Innovation Award (team award)
- Professor Dawei Wang (team leader) and Professor Haipeng Shen, Faculty of Business and Economics, for “Beat The Bot – An In-Class Teaching Simulation”
I would like to thank our external assessor, Professor Robert K. Kamei (Duke-NUS Medical School), for providing expert advice during the final selection process. I would also like to thank the other panel members, Dr. Jannie Roed, Professor David Bishop, and Miss Kan Yu Wong (student representative), for their assistance in this important exercise.
Please join me in congratulating the awardees!
Professor Jay Siegel\ Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)\ Chair, Selection Panel for Teaching Excellence Awards 2025
Teaching & Learning Headlines