Congratulations to Professor Ed Wu, Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, for being one of the 11 awardees of Research Impact Fund 2019-20. Professor Wu will led the project “Ultra-Light and Ultra-Low-Power MRI Technologies for Accessible Healthcare” for the next 60 months.
Research Impact Fund (RIF) was first introduced by the Research Grants Council in Academic Year 2018-19, aiming to encourage local academics to articulate the potential of research to deliver benefit for the wider community through more impactful and translational research project. This is the second consecutive year that academics in HKU Faculty of Engineering to receive funding from this scheme.