Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two

Faculty of Engineering
The University of Hong Kong

About Inno Wing Two
The Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two (Innovation Wing Two) was established with a donation of HK$20 million from Mr and Mrs Tam Wing Fan, for setting up the infrastructure and facilities and inaugurating the operation of the facility, and a HK$10 million funding under the Government Research Matching Grant Scheme to match with the donation amount, for conducting research activities and initiatives.  The Innovation Wing Two is connected with the Innovation Wing One via a covered walkway.  The Innovation Wing Two aims to serve as an enabling platform for Engineering researchers to interact and collaborate synergistically with researchers and professionals across various disciplines to tackle grand challenges and deliver research outputs with significant impact to Hong Kong and global communities, and at the same time to share the Faculty’s latest research achievements/findings/outputs with the large HKU and Hong Kong communities in widely accessible forms for example exhibitions and talks on research topics.  The Innovation Wing One and Two and the Innovation Academy together form an integrated hub for innovation, exploration, outreach and collaboration that is nonpareil and will push forward the Faculty’s two fronts of both education and research on innovation in an enlarged arena.

Opening ceremony

Date: 28th December 2021 (Thursday)

A hub of interdisciplinary research to catalyze the discovery of innovative and impactful engineering technologies – Opening of Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
TechTalk

HKAES TechTalk

Towards 6G: The Impacts of Wireless Communications Technologies Research to Society
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Justin Chuang, Vice President, Communications Technologies, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute
Date: October 22, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

HKAES TechTalk

Towards 6G: The Impacts of Wireless Communications Technologies Research to Society
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Justin Chuang, Vice President, Communications Technologies, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute
Date: October 22, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

MRI at 0.05 Tesla for Accessible Healthcare: Back to the Future?
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Ed Xuekui Wu, Lam Woo and Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: October 10, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

Young Scholar TechTalk

Next-generation Aqueous Magnesium-ion Batteries
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Ms Sarah Leong, PhD candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Date: October 8, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Learning Out-of-Distribution Object Detectors from Foundation Models
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Jiahui Liu, PhD candidate, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: September 16, 2024 (Monday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Smart Prefabrication Construction: A GBA Case
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Runyang Ray Zhong, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: September 24, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

HKAES TechTalk

Metallurgical Issues in Water Supplies in Hong Kong
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Alfonso Ngan, Kingboard Professor in Materials Engineering, Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Vice-President (Academic Development), HKU 
Date: June 26, 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

Young Scholar TechTalk

Ground Characterization from Digital Drilling Data with Time Series Algorithm
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Ms Siyuan Wu, PhD candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: July 30, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Urban Co-modality: Transforming the Future Collaborative Passenger and Freight Transportation
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Fangni Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: June 20, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participant

TechTalk

Building Functional Devices with Colloidal Nanocrystals from the Bottom Up
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Leo Tianshuo Zhao, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: June 27, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

Young Scholar TechTalk

Empowering Pervasive Healthcare: Mobile Analytics Systems Leveraging Multimodal Data
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Ms Zhihan Jiang, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: June 11, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Learning to Reconstruct, Understand and Create the 3D World
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Xiaojuan Qi, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: June 06, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participant

TechTalk

Power Network Stability: A Network Science-based Approach
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Tao Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 23, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Towards Controllable and Compositional Visual Content Generation
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Xihui Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 30, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participant

HKAES TechTalk

Integration of AI and Wireless Networks for 6G Systems
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Vincent Kin Nang LAU, Chair Professor of Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Director and Founder of HKUST-Huawei Joint Lab, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date: May 21, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Toward A Self-Chargeable Power Module for the Internet of Things
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Dong-Myeong Shin, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 16, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Greening the Slope: Revolutionizing Urban Water Management in Hilly Environments
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor May Chui, Associate professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 14, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Healthcare Decision-Making: From Data to Solutions and Insights
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Yong-Hong Kuo, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 09, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

HKAES TechTalk

Creating New Radio Frequency Wave Technology for 6G
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Ross Murch, Chair Professor, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Date: April 23, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

Young Scholar TechTalk

On Causality and the Upper Limit of Sound Absorption
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Zhe Zhang, PhD candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: April 30, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Optimization of the Service Reliability of Self-Service Systems Subject to Random Failure-induced Demand Switching
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Yao Cheng, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: April 11, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Heterogeneous Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits: Progress and Prospects
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Chao Xiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: April 18, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 5:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Health Care Applications with Natural Language Processing
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Raymond Ng, Canada Research Chair on Data Science and Analytics, Founding Director of the UBC Data Science Institute and Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Date: April 05, 2024 (Friday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Machine Learning and Animal Behavior: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Neuroscience and Engineering
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Koichi Hashimoto, Professor and Vice Dean of Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University
Date: April 12, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

HKAES TechTalk

Collaborative Edge Computing for Ubiquitous AI
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Jiannong Cao, Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science, Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing, Director of RIAIoT, Director of UBDA, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date: March 26, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

UAV Navigation and Mapping with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) Sensors
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Fu Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: March 28, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

The World at the Microscale: From Swimming Microorganisms to Artificial Microrobots
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Alan Cheng Hou Tsang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: March 14, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology (I&T) Development
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Ms. Lillian Cheong, JP, Under Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, HKSAR
Date: March 22, 2024 (Friday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

Young Scholar TechTalk

Customizable Acoustic Metamaterials on Frequency and Spatial Dimensions
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Sichao Qu, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: March 12, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Device-Independent Quantum Key Generation
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Ravishankar Ramanathan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: March 07, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Unlock the Hidden Value of Bridges’ Reserve Capacity in Toll Highway Operation
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Wenjun Cao, Assistant Professor (Infrastructure Project Management), Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: February 22, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Nature-Inspired Fluidics
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Anderson H.C. Shum, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Vice-President (Research and Innovation), HKU
Date: February 29, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

HKAES TechTalk

How clean is the air we breathe in urban areas?
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Xiang-dong Li, Dean of Faculty of Construction and Environment (FCE); Director of Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD); Chair Professor of Environmental Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date: February 20, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

HKU’s Contributions to Landslide Hazard Mitigation in Hong Kong
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Emeritus Professor C.F. Lee, Director of Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole and Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering Department, HKU
Date: February 1, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Filtration Solutions for Sustainable Environment
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor David Y. H. Pui, Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering, Regents Professor, and Director of the Center for Filtration Research, University of Minnesota, Distinguished Visiting Professor, HKU, Visiting Distinguished Professor, CityU
Date: January 30, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Seawater Sea-sand Engineered Cementitious Composites (SS-ECC) for Marine and Coastal Infrastructures
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Jing Yu, Assistant Professor (Structural Engineering), Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: January 25, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

HKAES TechTalk

Living with Climate Extremes - Hong Kong Perspective
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Pak Wai Chan, Director of the Hong Kong Observatory, HKSAR
Date: January 23, 2024 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Nanomaterials-based Soft Human-centric Optoelectronics
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Dae-Hyeong Kim, Center for Nanoparticle Research, Institute for Basic Science and School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University
Date: December 13, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

HKAES TechTalk

Hong Kong’s Climate Action Plan 2050
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Kenneth KM Leung, Principal Assistant Secretary (Air Policy), Environment and Ecology Burea, HKSAR
Date: December 19, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Artificial Intelligence for Structural Design, Simulation and Health Monitoring
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Jiaji Wang, Assistant Professor (Structural Engineering), Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: December 14, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

3D Functional Mesosystems: From Neural Interfaces to Environmental Monitors
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor John A. Rogers, Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD), University of Technology Sydney of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University, Director, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics
Date: December 13, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason: How a Vision for Ubiquitous Computing Can Be Reconciled to Have Better Impact
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Gregory Abowd, Dean, College of Engineering, and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Date: November 27, 2023 (Monday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

HKAES TechTalk

Magneto-electric Dipole - Advanced Antenna Technology for a Smart World
All members of the Hong Kong engineering community, HKU members and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Kwai Man Luk, Head and Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
Date: 28 November 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Environmental Geomechanics: Towards a Minimised Chemical Footprint in Geo-energy Engineering
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Manman Hu, Assistant Professor (Geotechnical Engineering), Department of Civil Engineering
Date: November 23, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Live “Street View” of Intracellular Organelles’ Interactions
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Dayong Jin, Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD), University of Technology Sydney
Date: November 13, 2023 (Monday)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Waste to Wealth: Sustainable Land Reclamation Technologies
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Fiona C.Y. Kwok, Assistant Professor (Geotechnical Engineering), Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: November 16, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Special TechTalk

Hong Kong Symposium: Sustainable Environment for the Greater Bay Area
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker:
Professor David Pui (University of Minnesota & The University of Hong Kong)
Professor Hong He (Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Professor Xiaoling Zhang (The University of Hong Kong)
Professor Tao Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Professor Yuguo Li (The University of Hong Kong)
Professor Alexis Lau (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Professor Alvin Lai (City University of Hong Kong)
Dr Kevin Lau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Date: 3rd November 2023 (Friday) 
Time: 9:00am – 12:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants  

HKAES TechTalk

Fluid Mechanics for Carbon Reduction in Wastewater Treatment Plants
All members of the Hong Kong engineering community, HKU members and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Joseph Hun-wei Lee, President and Chair Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology
Date: 2nd November 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Special TechTalk

Selected Plenary Keynote Lectures in GPPS Hong Kong 23 Conference
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker:
Professor Xiaomo Jiang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Dr Christopher Savoie, Zapata AI, USA
Dr Ming Li, China Academy of Space Technology, China
Professor Chin Pan, City University of Hong Kong, China
Dr Henry Lau, UK Atomic Energy Authority, UK

Date: 18th October 2023 (Wednesday) AM & 19th October 2023 (Thursday) PM
Venue: 2/F, Loke Yew Hall, HKU Main Building
Mode: Face to Face

Young Scholar TechTalk

GRAINS: Proximity Sensing of Objects in Granular Materials
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Zeqing Zhang, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: October 17, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Subsurface Technologies to Support the Energy Transition
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Michael Celia, Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Date: October 12, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 3pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Wireless AI Perception: A New Sense for Machine Intelligence Beyond Vision
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Chenshu Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: September 21, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Third Research Exhibition

Technology for Future

Thirteen cutting-edge engineering research projects led by Professors in the Faculty of Engineering are exhibited in the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two and Metaverse.
Four of them will be displayed in Metaverse.

Time: 9:30am – 7pm on weekdays, and 9:30am – 1pm on Saturdays
Venue: Innovation Wing Two / Metaverse

Research Highlight

Ultrastrong and multifunctional aerogels with hyperconnective network of composite polymeric nanofiber
Principal Investigators: 
Dr. Lizhi Xu, Assistant Professor (Department of Mechanical Engineering) &
Dr. Yuan Lin, Associate Professor (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two

Young Scholar TechTalk

Secure and High-performance AI Serving: Protecting AI Secretes, Accelerating AI Insights
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Tianxiang Shen, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: September 19, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Simulation, Optimization and Artificial Intelligence for On-demand Ride Service Operations
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Jintao Ke, Assistant Professor (Transportation Engineering), Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: September 14, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Young Scholar TechTalk

Modeling Uncertainty of Connected Vehicle Penetration Rate: Theory and Application
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Shaocheng Jia, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: September 12, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Quantitative Predictive Theories through Integration of Quantum, Statistical, and Irreversible Thermodynamics
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Zi-Kui Liu, Dorothy Pate Enright Professor, Director of the Phases Research Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Date: August 28, 2023 (Monday)
Time: 2pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Expanded Potential Stem Cells: A New Tool for Basic and Translational Research
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Pengtao Liu, Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Centre for Translational Stem cell Biology Health (InnoHK)
Date: August 3, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Pandemic Preparedness and Response in the Age of Information
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Kathy Leung, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Investigator, Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (InnoHK)
Date: June 30, 2023 (Friday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Theoretical Concepts and Innovative Laboratory Techniques for Estimating the Effective Permeability of Rocks: Applications to the Longyou Claystone
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor APS Selvadurai, William Scott Professor and Distinguished James McGill Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Date: June 15, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Emerging Infectious Diseases
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Kelvin Kai-Wang To, Department Chairperson and Clinical Professor, Department of Microbiology, HKU and Principal Investigator of Centre for Virology, Vaccinology & Therapeutics (InnoHK)
Date: June 8, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Organic Neuromorphic Materials and Devices
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Wei Ma, Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Date: June 2, 2023 (Friday)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Biomimetic Soft Materials for Bio-Integrated Smart Devices
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Lizhi Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU and Co-PI of Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre (InnoHK)
Date: June 1, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Young Scholar TechTalk

Chip-scale Sensing: From Classical to Quantum Regime
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Jixiang Jing, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 30, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

A “Programmable” Cell Niche Engineering Platform – Multiphoton Microfabrication and Micropatterning (MMM) Technology
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Barbara Chan, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 25, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

AI for Science: From Scientific Discoveries to Platform Engineering
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Linfeng Zhang, Founder of DP Technology, Beijing, China, Vice Dean of AI for Science Institute, Beijing, China
Date: May 24, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 10:00am
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Young Scholar TechTalk

HOF2 – Interact with Device through Simple and Robust Hand-Over-Face Gesture
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Songlin Huang and Mr Haoyu Huang, Undergraduate Student, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 23, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Research Highlight

On-Demand, Direct Printing of Nanodiamonds at the Quantum Level
Principal Investigators: 
Dr. Ji Tae Kim, Associate Professor (Department of Mechanical Engineering) &
Dr. Zhiqin Chu, Assistant Professor (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two

TechTalk

Learning Optimal Auctions from Data
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Zhiyi Huang, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 18, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Young Scholar TechTalk

High-throughput Cell Mechanics Characterization with Microfluidics
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Johnson Q Cui, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 9, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Robotics and AI for Real-world Challenges
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Kazuhiro Kosuge, Chair Professor of Robotic Systems, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: May 4, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Young Scholar TechTalk

Learning to Control and Coordinate Hybrid Traffic Through Robot Vehicles at Complex and Unsignalized Intersections
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Dawei Wang, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: April 25, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

IoT and Machine Learning for Smart Water Auditing
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Edith Ngai, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: April 20, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Young Scholar TechTalk

Blowing Bubbles in Membranes for More Efficient Freshwater Production
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Lu Elfa Peng, Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: April 18, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

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 

Research Highlight

A Doubling of Annual Tropical Forest Carbon Loss Driven by Agricultural Expansion
Principal Investigator: Professor Ji Chen, Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering (Department of Civil Engineering)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two

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 

TechTalk

Innovation in MRI: Back to the Future?
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Jürgen Hennig, Department of Radiology and Medical Physics, University Medical Center Freiburg
Date: March 2, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Understanding the Turkey-Syria Earthquakes with Methane Gas Refined Fault Theory of Tectonic Earthquakes
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Zhong-qi Quentin YUE, Professor in Geotechnical Engineering Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Date: February 14, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Adaptable AI-enabled Robots to Create a Vibrant Society – Moonshot R&D Program in Japan –
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Yasuhisa Hirata, Professor, Department of Robotics, Tohoku University
Date: February 23, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Search and Rescue in Rubble Piles
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Satoshi Tadokoro, Director and Professor of Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center, Tohoku University
Date: February 21, 2023 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Defect Tolerant Brain-inspired Computing with Memristors
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Can Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Date: February 9, 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Non-Fourier Phonon Heat Conduction: Ballistic, Coherent, Localized, Hydrodynamic, and Divergent Modes
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Gang Chen , Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: January 19, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

(RE)-Ba-Cu-O Single Grain Bulk Superconductors with Improved Superconducting and Mechanical Properties
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor David Cardwell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning and Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Date: January 16, 2023 (Monday)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Mechanomaterials: connecting mechanics to materials innovations and challenges
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Huajian Gao, Distinguished University Professor of Nanyang Technological University and Scientific Director of Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR
Date: December 14, 2022 (Wendesday)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

An Innovative Way of Water Resources Management for Sustainable Development: Utilization of Atmospheric Water Resources
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Ji Chen, Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Date: December 15, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Environmental Materials for Urban Resource Recovery
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Kaimin Shih, Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Date: December 8, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Research Highlight

High-voltage Aqueous Mg-ion Battery Facilitated by Water-in-salt Electrolyte
Principal Investigator: Professor Dennis Y.C. Leung, Professor and Head of Department (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two

TechTalk

A Simple Way of Doing Machine Learning, without Learning
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr Ngai Wong, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Date: November 24, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

To See a World in a Grain of Sand: A Geotechnical Researcher’s Perspective
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Jun Yang,Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: November 17, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Young Scholar TechTalk

Cyber-Physical Spare Parts Intralogistics System for Aviation MRO
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Ms Qiqi Chen, PhD Candidate, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, HKU
Date: November 15 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants

TechTalk

Causes and Effects in the Microscopic World
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Giulio Chiribella, Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Date: November 10, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Managing Urban Rainwater with Nature-based Solutions
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr. May Chui, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Date: November 3, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Wearable Assistive Robots for Aging Society
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Ning Xi, Chair Professor of Robotics and Automation and Director of Advanced Technologies Institute, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, HKU
Date: October 27, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

TechTalk Panel Discussion on Recruitment of HK Payload Specialists
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speakers:
Professor Nicholas Fang, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Professor Anderson Shum, Associate Vice-President (Research and Innovation), and Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Professor Ning Xi, Chair Professor of Robotics and Automation and Director of Advanced Technologies Institute, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, HKU
Professor Xiaobo Yin, Associate Vice-President (Research Infrastructure) and Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Date: October 21, 2022 (Friday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

TechTalk

Autonomous Excavation: Manipulation and Perception of Granular Materials
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr. Jia Pan, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: October 20, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants 

Research Highlight

High-speed Laser-scanning Biological Microscopy using FACED
Principal Investigator: Professor Kevin Tsia, Professor (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and Program Director of Biomedical Engineering Program
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two