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The RGC announced that the Theme-based Research Project, entitled, “Big Data for Smart and Personalized Air Pollution Monitoring and Health Management,” led by Prof. Victor OK Li and Dr. Jacqueline CK Lam of EEE, has been awarded HKD 50 Million over five years. This project is a collaboration between HKU, Cambridge University, HKUST, Tsinghua University, and UC Berkeley/UCLA.

Fano Labs, a Hong Kong based artificial intelligence (AI) startup specialising in speech and natural language processing (NLP) technologies and a spin-off from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has raised a Series Pre-A round led by Horizons Ventures.  The company was co-founded in 2015 by Dr Miles Wen, a PhD graduate from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a former Fulbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley and Professor Victor O.K. Li, Chair of Information Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at HKU.