Two research teams led by faculty members from Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as School of Computing and Data Science were awarded the Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong) 2024 in the Healthy Longevity Global Competition. The competition is founded by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) of the United States and sponsored by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It is a multiyear, multimillion-dollar international competition seeking breakthrough innovations to extend human health and function later in life.
Here is the list of the awardees:
Project Title: A Large Language Model (LLM)-driven Approach for Advancing Low-cost Timely Speech-based Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease (LOAD) Prediction
Team Lead:
Prof. Victor O.K. Li (PI, HKU-AI WiSe), Prof. Jacqueline C.K. Lam (Co-lead, HKU-AI WiSe), and Dr. Yang Han (AI, HKU-AI WiSe),
This is the fourth time the team led by Victor and co-led by Jacqueline have won the 2024 US NAM HLCA award.
Team Members:
Prof. Yam-leung Cheung (Linguistics, CUHK), Prof. James Rowe (Medical Science, Cambridge U), Dr. Jocelyn Downey (Biomedical Science, HKU), Prof. David Rubinzstein (Neuroscience, Cambridge U)
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Project Title: Development of a Practical Elderly Fall Detection Solution via Non-Intrusive, Low-Cost Sensing
Team Member: Professor Chenshu Wu, School of Computing and Data Science
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