Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One

Faculty of Engineering
The University of Hong Kong

Educational Aim

Entrusting and empowering students 
Unleash the creative potential of our students by entrusting them to spearhead ambitious innovation and technology projects that will shape the future.

Be an innovator

Embark on your journey of technology innovation in the Innovation Wing

Are you a student with a passion for innovation?
Do you have an idea for a project that could change the world?
Join us at the Innovation Wing of HKU!
We offers a unique opportunity for individuals and teams to develop and showcase their innovative ideas in a supportive and collaborative environment.
With access to state-of-the-art resources, expert guidance, and a community of like-minded individuals, you’ll have everything you need to turn your idea into a reality.
Don’t miss out on this chance to make a difference – apply now to join the Innovation Wing and unleash your creativity!

Some of our student interest groups

SIG – PERfECT Wearables for Digital Health

Internet of things (IoT) has attracted huge attention because of its potential to connect things together with the cloud. Similarly, the Internet of Health (IoH) aims to enable real-time health evaluation of an individual or a group with advanced medical devices. This feat can be realized by developing tiny wearable biosensors that can be easily deployed on the human body to monitor health signals. This project develops next-generation wearable biosensors to allow digital healthcare. There are two main components. First, we develop skin-attachable biosensors which detect health signals including electrophysiological signals, temperature, and antibodies or glucose in the sweat. Second, we develop miniaturized sensor characterization systems to enable comfort wear for practical applications. The whole set can communicate the data wirelessly with other electronic devices. This will be one of the smallest wearable devices developed so far. Future research is being conducted by our group at the innovation wing now at HKU.

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SIG – Engineering and Archaeology

We are forming a new interest group at the Innovation Wing, as a collaboration with humanities and educational researchers at HKU.

In this group, we plan to pursue several interdisciplinary projects that will improve the ways we can study and teach about the human past. Our projects will include uses of augmented and virtual reality in recording, teaching, and presenting archaeological sites. We are also studying the use of machine learning and computer vision for several purposes to study visual datasets such as satellite images of ancient landscapes. We work with a field project that travels to Armenia each summer to excavate. We welcome anyone who would like to join our team, from any Faculty. We especially invite engineers and computer scientists, but we also have many other projects which anyone with an interest can join.

Let’s learn about the human past together! Thank you!

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SIG – Smart Elderly Walker

This project aims to develop the set of technologies to achieve convenient-to-use mobility support for daily use of the elderly. In this project, we are developing a smart elderly walker which is intended to play an active role in an elderly person’s daily life, with three fundamental functionalities that do not exist or not well supported by (smart) walkers in the market: smart walking assistance; falling prevention and support; autonomous mobility.
A set of mechanical, control, sensory, and AI technologies is being developed including:
(1) novel walker mechanical structure with omnidirectional mobility and outrigger mechanisms;
(2) dual-mode actuation and control for walking/standing support and fall prevention/ recovery;
(3) multimodal sensory data collection through soft sensory skin, and data processing on device and in the cloud, for event detection and control such as user front following and fall detection;
(4) sound-source localization for elderly localisation and auto-navigation of walker.

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SIG – IIIs for VIPs

IIIs for VIPs is an SIG collaborating with our supervisor Dr. Joseph Chan. It aims to provide a space where students can create inventions which help improve the daily lives of visually impaired persons (VIPs). We welcome students from engineering, medicine and interested students from other faculties.

Our SIG will support our members in finishing their projects until it becomes available for public use. Any project with the purpose of improving the activities of daily living for VIPs are welcome.

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SIG – HKU Robocon

The annual Robocon competition project allows HKU engineering students from different disciplines to design and fabricate innovative robots with an integration of various advanced technologies, including IoT sensors, AI, computer vision, and mobile computing. Besides, it provides hands-on experiences on product design, prototyping, CNC machining, design and fabrication of electric circuit and PCB, control program development, etc.

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SIG – HKU UAS (Unmanned aerial system)

HKU UAS is a student interest group focusing on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). We aim to gather self-motivated drone lovers to learn and work on drone projects together. Not only to gain a lot of hands-on experience, by joining us, you could improve your mechanical skills and learn and apply electrical and computer science skills.

With the support of Innovation Wing, we plan to join competitions to test our knowledge and skills, also to learn from other teams and gain valuable experience. In 2022, the team build the system based on the rules of AUVSI SUAS 2023.
The AUVSI SUAS Competition is a yearly event, designed to stimulate interest in UAS technologies and careers, and to engage students in a challenging UAS mission.

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SIG – Quantum Bit Demonstrator

The world is currently in the midst of a second-quantum revolution, which will see the counter intuitive properties of quantum systems such as superposition and entanglement, being applied for commercial technologies such as quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communications. Quantum Computing is mostly taught to undergraduates in a classroom focusing mostly on theoretical and mathematical concepts with minimal laboratory components. This is primarily because research laboratories working in quantum science are too expensive, bulky, and complicated to be used for undergraduate teaching purposes. We wish to bridge that gap by building a compact, user-friendly, interactive setup to introduce quantum physics to a younger non-expert audience. The goal of the project is to create a curriculum for quantum technology, a sustainable education model, with an in-class demonstration kit for quantum science education.

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SIG – HKU RoboMaster

Robomaster is a national robotics competition for university students, hosted by DJI. The project is about forming a team to design various types of smart robots which can engage in face-to-face, videogame-style battles. The preparation process involves the knowledge in the following disciplines: mechanical and hardware design, control theory application, computer vision and smart algorithm, technical management. The ultimate purpose of the project is to develop the skills, quality and team spirit of engineering students that can be beneficial in their future career.

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SIG – HKU Astar (formerly RoboMaster ICRA AI Challenge)

HKU Astar is a student group who participates in Robomaster University AI Challenge Competition. Robomaster University AI Challenge is an AI-based robotics competition for university students held by DJI and IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. It emphasizes on writing AI algorithms and tuning and choosing and training machine learning models to power pure automatic robots to accomplish complex goals like building maps, avoiding collision and tracking. Our team aims to build AI Robot tuples that can work purely automatically. Implementing and design decision policies according to competition requirements. Training AI networks to recognize and track objects. Implement localization and motion planning on robots under uncertainty.

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SIG – BREED Robotics

BREED is a student group committed to developing and promoting bio-inspired technology. Our flagship VAYU project – the world’s fastest robotic fish – and our upcoming initiatives such as our robotic dog aim to educate and enhance awareness in the general student body. Using designs perfected by millions of years of natural evolution, we adapt selected features into increasing effectiveness of man-made robots. We aim to establish a hub based in the Innovation Wing where this development can take root in the local community, increasing awareness and interest while promoting scientific innovation: this will be done through outreach projects, educational initiatives, as well as the continuation of various bio-inspired initiatives under BREED.

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SIG – HKU Racing

Formula Student is a renowned educational engineering competition, combining practical engineering with soft skills including business planning and project management. It is a proving ground for students who want to create and change the world. Electrification of transportation system is here, the combination of electric powertrain and traditional mechanical system has made this competition attractive to lots of industries leading to companys’ attention and support. This competition jump starts our students’ knowledge and skills set for their future career. HKU Racing is the first team from Hong Kong to compete in Formula Student (European series).

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Many more innovation projects

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Some of our recent events

Young Scholar TechTalk

Understanding Rainfall-induced Slope Failures from an Integrated Perspective
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Ms Levinna Natalia, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: April 11, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Soils by Design: A Reality, Not A Pipe Dream
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Sérgio Lourenço, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: March 30, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Schwarz Crystal Structure in Polycrystalline Metals with Extremely Fine Grains
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Ke Lu, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, Liaoning Academy of Materials, Shenyang, China
Date: March 29, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:00am
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Rational Approach for Seismic Analysis of Long Underground Tunnels Based on 2.5D Formulation
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Yeong Bin Yang, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Foreign member of Austrian Academy of Sciences. Honorary Dean of School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University (NTU), Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics (IJSSD)
Date: March 22, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Young Scholar TechTalk

Flexible Learning of Quantum States with Generative Query Neural Networks
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Yan Zhu, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: March 28, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Scalable Nanoprinting for Nanophotonics Computing Platform
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Nicholas Xuanlai Fang, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: March 23, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

The Metaverse Heatwave
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Henry Lau, Head of Cybernetics of RACE, UK Atomic Energy Authority and Founder of VOTANIC
Date: March 21, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Meta-materials for Sustainability
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Xiaobo Yin, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: March 9, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Pitching

Pitch your innovative ideas 2023

Pitch your ideas and grow your own community of passion and interest. An opportunity to get a maximum of HK$100K funding support to further develop the ideas.

Pitching event: 14:00 – 16:30, March 8th, 2023

Electronics Beginner Workshop

"Plant" Your Fairy Tree

Date: March 7, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30 – 5:00 pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One, HKU

Many more events

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About Inno Wing
The Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing offers a collaborative environment that promotes interdisciplinary innovation among students and faculty in the fields of Engineering and Technology. Equipped with cutting-edge facilities, this space will facilitate curriculum innovations that focus on hands-on and experiential learning. The Innovation Wing serves as a platform for young people to broaden their horizons, gain a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by underserved communities, and apply their skills and knowledge to develop meaningful and impactful solutions.
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