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.
Research talks / activities
Tech Talk
Smarter, smaller and softer robots for medical image-guided minimally invasive surgery
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr. Ka-Wai Kwok, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Date: 2nd June 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Mode: Mixed
Tech Talk
Wastewater-based Epidemiology: A lesson from COVID-19
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Tong Zhang, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Date: 26th May 2022 (Thursday) (Postponed until further notice)
Time: 4:30pm
Mode: Mixed
Tech Talk - Research student series
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Engineering of quantum nanodiamonds
Speaker: Mr. Tongtong Zhang, PhD Candidate of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Date: 24th May 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Research Highlight
(new exhibition)
Soft Robotic Manipulator for Intra-operative MRI-guided Transoral Laser Microsurgery
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ka-Wai Kwok (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Prototype will be displayed from 23rd May 2022.
Tech Talk in Inno Wing Two
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Plastic Response of Cells: from Embryo Development to Disease Detection
Speaker: Dr. Yuen Lin, Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Date: 5th May 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Research exhibition (new project)
Anti-COVID-19 stainless steel
Principal Investigator: Professor Mingxin HUANG (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Tech Talk
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Re-understanding of Active Volcanoes
Speaker: Professor Z.Q. Yue Quentin, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Date: 27th January 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30pm
Mode: Online via ZOOM
Tech Talk
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Unravelling the transmission of vertical outbreaks:
Each drainage stack is an aerosol factory
Each drainage stack is an aerosol factory
Speaker: Professor Yuguo Li, Chair Professor of Building Environment, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Date: 20th January 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Inaugural Research Exhibition
Engineering for Better Living
Twelve cutting-edge engineering research projects led by Professors in the Faculty of Engineering are exhibited in the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two.
These projects address both local and global situations and are categorized into topics of InnoHK, COVID-19, Emerging Technology, and Gerontology respectively.
Time: 9:30am – 7pm on weekdays, and 9:30am – 1pm on Saturdays
Venue: Innovation Wing Two
Inaugural Tech Talk
Digitization
Date: 28th December 2021 (Thursday)
Time: 3:40pm
Venue: Innovation Wing Two
Presenter: Professor Norman C. Tien & Professor Anderson H.C. Shum
Moderator: Professor David J. Srolovitz
Opening ceremony
Date: 28th December 2021 (Thursday)