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Novel space for ground-breaking pursuits by young innovators

From creating the world’s fastest robotic fish on rescue mission, advanced models of electric vehicles to the best walkers for the elderly, the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing (Innovation Wing) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has been abuzz with exploratory activities by aspiring students.
HKU engineering team developed new AI algorithms for high accuracy and cost effective medical image diagnostics

An engineering team at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a new approach “REFERS” (Reviewing Free-text Reports for Supervision), which can cut human cost down by 90%, by enabling the automatic acquisition of supervision signals from hundreds of thousands of radiology reports at the same time. It attains a high accuracy in predictions, surpassing its counterpart of conventional medical image diagnosis employing AI algorithms.
“A highly distorted ultraelastic chemically complex Elinvar alloy”, a paper in Nature

The development of high-performance ultraelastic metals with superb strength, a large elastic strain limit and temperature-insensitive elastic modulus (Elinvar effect) are important for various industrial applications, from actuators and medical devices to high-precision instruments1,2.
Agricultural expansion a major cause to doubling of annual tropical carbon loss over past two decades

Using multiple high-resolution satellite datasets, researchers from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) found that tropical carbon loss has doubled over the past two decades due to excessive forest removal in the tropics.
Engineering academics awarded two Gold Medals and three Silver Medals at Special Edition 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days

The University of Hong Kong reaped a total of twelve awards at the Special Edition 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days. Among the twelve awards, engineering academics received 2 Gold Medals and 3 Silver Medals. The International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva is one of the most significant global annual events devoted exclusively to inventions.
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Professor Kaibin Huang, Professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, with effective from April 1, 2022. Dr Jia Pan, Associate Professor of Department of Computer Science, with effective from April 1, 2022.

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