Our previous events
Past events
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
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
Research Highlight
(new exhibition)
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
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
Young Scholar TechTalk
Wings Over Mai Po
Recruitment of Students for Projects with Hong Kong Bird Watching Society
Date: April 19, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:00nn – 6:00pm
Gather Point: Brainstorming Area (Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One)
Location: Mai Po
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
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
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: 2nd March 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Inno Wing Two
Second Research Exhibition
DIGITIZATION
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
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: 23rd February 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
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
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
Workshop
Build Your Dream House in Virtual World
Date: February 15 and 22 (Wednesday), 2023
Time: 3:00 – 5:30 pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One, HKU
Workshop
Using content creator suite to create VR application
Date: February 1 and 8 (Wednesday), 2023
Time: 2:30 – 6:00 pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One, HKU
Tech Talk
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
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.
Proposal submission deadline: 11:59pm, January 31st, 2023
Sharing
Sharing by Inno Wing robot teams
Date: January 18, 2023 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One
Workshop
2-day beginner workshop
Robot - Firmware
Robot - Firmware
Date: December 16 (Monday) & 20 (Friday), 2023
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Venue: Makerspace A, Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One
Tech Talk
(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
Research Highlight
(new exhibition)
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
Tech Talk
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
Tech Talk
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
The 7th Engineering InnoShow
Let your Dreams Fly
- Project submission: by 12:00nn, Nov 21, 2022 (Monday)
- Showcase date: November 30, 2022 (Wednesday), 4:00pm – 6:30pm
- Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One (Physical showcase)
- Award ceremony at 6:00pm (Physical ceremony + broadcast on metaverse)
Workshop
"Push It To The Limit"
A RC car experience event
A RC car experience event
Date: November 23, 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:00 – 5:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One, HKU
Tech Talk
Causes and Effects in the Microscopic World
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
(new exhibition)
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
Tech Talk
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
Tech Talk
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
Tech Talk
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
Tech Talk
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
Tech Talk
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
Funding for projects/activities
Funding Scheme for student projects/activities by Tam Wing Fan Innovation Fund and Philomathia Foundation Innovation Fund
The Innovation Academy serves as an accelerator for inspiration and implementation.
The Funding Scheme aims to identify, engage and nurture student projects/activities with the creative potential to tackle emerging complex engineering problems in the world.
Application deadline: October 14, 2022
Tech Talk
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 Xiaobo Yin, Associate Vice-President 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
Workshop
Two-day workshop on
“How to make a VR game with Unity?”
“How to make a VR game with Unity?”
Date: October 11 (Tuesday) and 13 (Thursday), 2022
Time: 2:30 – 5:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, HKU
Workshop
4-Day Beginner workshop on Robotic Operating System (ROS)
Date: October 10 (Mon), 11 (Tue), 13 (Thu) and 14 (Fri), 2022
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm
Venue: Makerspace A, Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One, HKU
Tech Talk
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
Tech Talk
Micro-robots powered by stimuli-responsive materials
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: : Professor Alfonso H.W. Ngan, Kingboard Professor in Materials Engineering, Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: October 13, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Young Scholar TechTalk
Subgraph federated learning with missing neighbor generation
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Miss Zhang Ke, PhD candidate, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Date: October 11 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Tech Talk
Cyber-Physical Internet (CPI) for Cross-Border Logistics of Manufactured Products
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor George Q. Huang, Chair Professor and Head of Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Date: October 6, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Sharing by young innovator
Mr Rex Sham
Rex co-founded Insight Robotics with his peers in 2009. Since then, the company’s business has expanded to South Africa, Canada, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
In 2015, The Wall Street Journal selected it as one of the five most promising start-ups in Hong Kong.
Speaker: Mr Rex Sham, Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, Insight Robotics Ltd.
Date: October 5, 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One, HKU
Workshop
Two-afternoon workshop on “Using Content Creator Suite to Create VR application”
Date: September 20 and 27 (Tuesdays)
Time: 2:30 – 6:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, HKU
Workshop
Innovations in studying the past with technology
Date: September 22, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, HKU
Welcome! Our first-year Engineering students
HKU Engineering @ Student Enrichment Opportunities
2022-23
2022-23
Date: 31th August 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 11:30am – 1:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One
Tech Talk
Innovation of Originality for Solving Sand Shortage Crisis around the World including Hong Kong
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Zhong-qi Quentin YUE, Geotechnical Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Date: September 15, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Tech Talk
Seeing the unseen in biomedicine with laser
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Kevin Tsia, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
and Program Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program, HKU
Date: 30th August 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Tech Talk
The infini love diamond with a massive future in science
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: : Dr. Zhiqin Chu, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Joint Appointment with School of Biomedical Sciences), HKU
Date: August 25, 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Tech Talk - Research student series
Anti-Covid-19 Stainless Steel
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Dr. Litao Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Date: 16th August 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Tech Talk
Research student series
dPRO: A Generic Performance Diagnosis and Optimization Toolkit for Expediting Distributed DNN Training
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Hanpeng Hu, PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science , HKU
Date: 9th August 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Workshop
4-Day Beginner workshop on Robotic Operating System (ROS)
Date: August 1 , August 5 , August 8 and August 12 , 2022 (Monday and Friday)
Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm
Venue: Maker Space A, Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, HKU
Tech Talk
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Membranes for Water and Beyond
Speaker: : Professor CY Tang, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, HKU
Date: 28th July 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Tech Talk
Research student series
Digital Twin-Enabled Synchronization System for Smart Precast Construction
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Mr Yishuo Jiang, PhD candidate, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, HKU
Date: 26th July 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Workshop
Two-day workshop on
“How to make a VR game with Unity?”
“How to make a VR game with Unity?”
Date: July 12 and 19, 2022 (Tuesdays)
Time: 2:30 – 5:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, HKU
Tech Talk in Inno Wing Two
Research student series
Sensing and Data Processing for Human Balancing Evaluation
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: : Miss Yuqing, PhD candidate, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, HKU
Date: 5th July 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Research Highlight in Inno Wing Two (new exhibition)
Biofilm Inhibition in Oral Pathogens by Nanodiamonds
Principal Investigator: Dr. Zhiqin Chu, Assistant Professor (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Joint Appointment with School of Biomedical Sciences)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Workshop
Play with a Hexapod Battle Bot in Inno Wing
Have you ever played with a Hexapod Battle Bot?
Now you will get a chance to play with this six-leg mechanical vehicle at Innovation Wing.
Apart from playing with the Hexapod, you can expand your toolbox by getting some hands-on experience on Arduino Microcontrollers, one of the key components in product prototyping. You can use it to control the Hexapod and other electrical devices. More importantly, you will be able to meet other members and identify your partners for endeavors in innovation :-).
Date: July 6, 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing
Workshop
VR Taster
A series of VR taster will be organised to arouse students’ interest in VR technology. Oculus Quest 2, the latest VR headset with meeting, gaming and an immense learning environment, will be provided to participants to try on some selected software and games.
Date: Every Friday from June 10, 2022
Time:
- Session 1: 10:00-11:00am
- Session 2: 2:00-3:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing
Tech Talk in Inno Wing Two - Research student series
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Short-range exposure during close contact and the environmental interaction
Speaker: Miss Wenzhao Chen, PhD Candidate of the Department of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Date: 28th June 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Workshop
How to be a good race driver?
The workshop features sharing of experience by a professional kart driver. Participants will also have a try at the motion simulator of HKU Racing Team and track driving tutorial.
Date: 29th June 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing One
Eligibility: Innovation Wing and InnoHub members. Priority will be given to non-Racing Team Innovation Wing Members
Tech Talk in Inno Wing Two
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Light or Fiber Touch
Speaker: Professor Liqiu Wang, Chair Professor of Thermal-Fluid Sciences and Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, HKU
Date: 16th June 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Tech Talk in Inno Wing Two
HINCare: Using Heterogenous Information Networks for Elderly Care Recommendation
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Speaker: Professor Reynold Cheng, Professor of the Department of Computer Science, HKU
Date: 9th June 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 4:30pm
Mode: Mixed
Tech Talk - Research student series
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join!
Cold-formed Stainless Steel Structures under Concentrated Bearing Loads
Speaker: Mr. Andy Prabowo Pho, PhD Candidate of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Date: 7th June 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Engineering Inno Show on Metaverse
Innovation Unbounded
Showcasing team will setup demo in Inno Wing and broadcast to metaverse
Inno Show date: 31 May 2022 (Tuesday), 1pm – 3pm
Award ceremony at 3pm
Venue: Metaverse
Tech Talk in Inno Wing Two
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 in Inno Wing Two
Wastewater-based Epidemiology:
A lesson from COVID-19
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: *postpone until further notice*
Time: *postpone until further notice*
Mode: Mixed mode with limited on-site participants
Tech Talk in Inno Wing Two
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 in Inno Wing Two)
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
Online workshop
From hospital-centric to human-centric: Personalized wearables for digital healthcare
Date: April 27, 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Speaker: Dr Shiming Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Mode: Zoom
Online workshop
Crafting the multiverse of cells to reshape healthcare
Date: 22 April 2022 (Friday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Speaker: Professor Kevin Tsia, Professor, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, and Program Director of Biomedical Engineering Program, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Mode: Zoom
Online workshop
NFT Business Model: Quick Win and Long-Term Strategy
Date: 20 April 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Speaker: Mr Joseph Chan, Associate Director – Centre for Asian Entrepreneurship & Business Values, Programme Lead – Entrepreneurship, Design & Innovation, Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU
Mode: Zoom
New research exhibition in Inno Wing Two
Anti-COVID-19 stainless steel
Principal Investigator: Professor Mingxin HUANG (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two
Online workshop
Digital twin: Pairing of physical and virtual worlds
Date: 13 April 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Speakers:
Dr Ray Zhong, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, HKU, and
Ms Aki Dai, PhD student, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, HKU
Mode: Zoom
Workshop by pitching winners
Our first steps to innovation:
A sharing by pitching winners
Date: 14 April 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Speakers: Winners of the pitching event organized by the Innovation Academy
Moderator: Dr May Chui, Associate Head, Innovation Academy, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Mode: Zoom
Online workshop
Elevating the human experience: XR technologies and the Metaverse
Date: 30 March 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Speaker: Dr Loretta Choi, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Mode: Zoom
Dialogue with HKU graduate
Why is Blockchain important for our careers?
Date: 6 April 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Guest: Mr Jason Wu, BA, HKU, 2021
Moderator: Dr. Eugenie Leung, Senior Consultant, Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Mode: Zoom
Online workshop
Mysteries of NFTs and how they shape the Metaverse
Date: 23rd March 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Speaker: Dr John Yuen, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Mode: Zoom
Online workshop
Talk to machines:
Do they truly understand humans?
Do they truly understand humans?
Date: 9 March 2022 (Wednesdasy)
Time: 15:30 – 16:30
Speaker: Dr Kong Lingpeng, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Mode: Online workshop
Online workshop
AI in Law
Bridging the legal knowledge gap: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Date: 23rd Feburary 2022 (Wednesday)
Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Speaker: Speaker: Professor Benjamin Kao, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Tech Talk in Inno Wing Two
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 in Inno Wing Two
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
Student-initiated courses
To design, develop and teach a course on a technology-related topic
Student or student teams may propose courses of special interest not covered in the formal engineering curriculum. The courses will be on Instructor-Attendee mode where students can claim credits either by serving as instructors of the courses or attending the courses (“attendees”).
The 5th Engineering Inno Show
Ready to take flight
Application deadline: 12:30pm, Nov 25 (Thursday)
With the “SUPER GOOD JOB award” and the “Inno Show award”
Event date: November 30, 2021 (Tuesday)
Time (tentative): 1pm – 4pm (Award ceremony at 4pm, free mingling time follows until 5pm)
Venue: Innovation Wing, Event hall
Field trip
Innovative ways to automate archaeological work?
A field trip to Wun Yiu Village, the only Ming, Qing blue and white porcelain production site in Hong Kong.
Date: November 6, 2021 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm
Venue: Wun Yiu Village, Tai Po
Hands-on workshop
Mindfulness Data Processing Experiential Workshop
Date: October 27, 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:30-5:00pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing
Sharing
Robotics Journey in HKU: From Robocon to Tech Startup
Speaker: Cheung Chim-Lee
Date: October 6, 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, HKU
Sharing
Sharing, Recruitment & workshop by Robotic Student Teams
Speakers: HKU Robocon and BREED-HKU
Date: September 29, 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, HKU
Sharing
Finding your path in a dynamic Engineering world
Speaker: Professor Norman C. Tien, Head of Innovation Academy
Event date: Sep 17, 2021 (Friay), 4:30pm
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing (Brainstorming area)
The 4th Engineering InnoShow
"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today"
Project submission deadline: 12:30pm, 27th April 2021 (Tuesday)
Date: 4th May 2021 (Tuesday)
Time: 10:00 am – 15:00 pm (Award ceremony at 12:45pm)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing
The 3rd InnoEdge Workshop
Build Smart - Innovation in Construction
Date: April 28, 2021 (Wednesday), 2pm – 3pm
Speaker: Professor Pan Wei
Moderator: Professor Thomas Ng
Mode: At Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing or via ZOOM
The 2nd InnoEdge Workshop
Survival guide for COVID-19:
Why ventilation matters?
Why ventilation matters?
Date: April 16, 2021 (Friday), 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Speaker: Professor Yuguo Li, Chair Professor of Building Environment
Moderator: Professor Dennis Leung, Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering
Mode: ZOOM
The 2nd InnoSharing
Meet an Innovation Thinker: Starting a venture fund - How I got here?
Speaker: Mr Tak Lo, Partner at Tolo Partners
Event date: March 26, 2021 (Friday)
Time: 3:30pm-5:00pm
The 1st Engineering InnoEdge
Recent advances in computer vision and applications
Recent advances in computer vision and applications
Active exchange and learning for the advanced technologies and /or research outcomes from pioneering Engineering projects in the Faculty of Engineering.
Date: March 5, 2021 (Friday), 2pm – 2:30pm
Speaker: Dr Kenneth Wong, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science of HKU
Moderator: Professor Giulio Chiribella, Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Mode: At Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing or via ZOOM
The 1st Engineering InnoSpark
Pitch your ideas and grow your own community of passion and interest.
Briefing session: January 7, 2021 (Thursday), 2pm
Application deadline: February 1, 2021 (Monday)
Pitching event: February 23, 2021 (Tuesday)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing
The Inaugural InnoSharing
Making Impact in a Technology-driven World - My Leadership Journey in Academia
Speaker: Professor Xiang Zhang, President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong
Event date: February 3, 2021 (Wednesday), HKT2:30pm
All HKU Staff and Students are welcome!
The 3rd Engineering InnoShow
"You can't use up creativity. the more you use the more you have."
A showcase carnival that celebrates innovative Engineering student projects at the end of every semester
Date: 27 November 2020 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 am – 15:00 pm (Award ceremony at 12:45pm)
Venue: Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing