HKU triumphed at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, winning a total of 19 awards, including two special grand prizes Invention & Innovation CAI Award (China Delegation), and Prize of the Delegation of Malaysia. Among the 19 awards, our faculty members had bagged 9 of them.
Below is the awardees’ list:
Invention title: Artificial Intelligence MGF Network for Anomalies Detection
Faculty member: Dr Wilton Fok, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Awards: Invention & Innovation CAI Award (China Delegation), Prize of the Delegation of Malaysia and Gold Medal
Invention title: Programmable Cell Niche Engineering Platform
Faculty member: Professor Barbara Chan, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury
Invention title: PERfECT Wearables for Digital Health
Faculty member: Dr Shiming Zhang, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Award: Gold Medal
Invention title: DipμChip – Capillary Microfluidic Platform for Point-of-care Diagnostics
Faculty members: Professor Anderson H.C. Shum and Dr Hassan Sammer Ui, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Gold Medal
Invention title: Ultra-thin Flexible Robotic Instruments for Endoluminal Surgery
Faculty member: Dr Ka-Wai Kwok, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Award: Silver Medal
Invention title: Automatic Alignment of Microparticles
Faculty members: Professor Kevin Tsia and Dr Kelvin Lee from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Award: Silver Medal
Invention title: Smart Elderly Walker
Faculty member: Professor Chuan Wu and Dr Hao Luo, Department of Computer Science
Award: Bronze Medal
HKU Engineering team at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
Dr Wilton Fok (left two) and his team
Awards of Dr Wilton Fok and his team
Professor Anderson H.C. Shum (middle) and his team
Professor Barbara Chan (left three) and her team