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2024 - 2025

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor Ning XI	Professor Toshio FUKUDA Nagoya University, Japan (September 5, 2024)	AI Robots and Moon Shot Program
Professor Tong ZHANG	Professor Michael WAGNER University of Vienna, Austria (November 13, 2024)	Seeing is understanding: Next generation chemical imaging for super-fast functional analyses of microbiomes
Prof Ji CHEN	Professor Xu LIANG University of Pittsburgh, USA	The past, present and future of Land Surface Modeling: A Personal Perspective
Professor Yizhou YU	Professor Jitendra MALIK University of California at Berkeley, USA (March 26, 2025)	When will we have intelligent robots?
Professor Victor OK LI and Professor Jacqueline CK LAM	Professor Steven LOW California Institute of Technology, USA	Decarbonize Energy Systems
Professor Wallace CHOY	Professor Feng GAO Linkoping University, Sweden (May 20, 2025)	Sustainable Development of Next-Generation Solar Cells and LEDs
Professor Dennis YC LEUNG	Professor Nigel Peter BRANDON Imperial College London, UK (November 12, 2024)	From Bench to Business: Innovations in Electrochemical Technology for the Low-Carbon Energy Transition

2023 - 2024 (Lectures postponed to 2024-2025)

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor Giulio CHIRIBELLA	Professor Dorit AHARONOV Hebrew University, Israel	The quantum computing revolution

2023 - 2024

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Dr Wendi LI	Professor Stephen Y. CHOU Princeton University, USA (June 26, 2023)	Nanoimprint – A Key 21 Century Nanomanufacturing & Nanotechnology and iMOST – Nano-Enabled-Artificial Intelligence for Instant Mobile Health Test
Dr Jia PAN	Professor Abderrahmane KHEDDAR French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France	Humanoids as General-Purpose Robots
Dr Yifan PENG	Professor Brian A. WANDELL Stanford University, USA	Simulation Technologies for Image Systems
Professor Tong ZHANG	Professor Mark van Loosdrecht Delft University of Technology (January 17, 2024)	Anticipating the next century of wastewater treatment: resource recovery and the blue economy
Professor Kaibin HUANG	Professor Yonina ELDAR Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	Model Based Deep Learning: Applications to Imaging and Communications

2020 - 2021 (Lectures postponed to 2023-2024)

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor Kaibin HUANG	Professor Kin K. LEUNG Imperial College, UK (November 30, 2023)	Communication Networks: From Stochastic Models, to Optimization to Machine Learning
Professor Chuan WU	Professor Ness SHROFF The Ohio State University, USA (March 14, 2024)	AI-EDGE: Designing future XG networks

2019 - 2020

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor Liqiu WANG	Professor Shu YANG (August 5, 2021)	Bioinspired Adaptive Building Skins: From Nano- to Macroscales
Professor Kenneth Kin-Yip WONG	Professor Hui CAO (March 11, 2021)	Harnessing Disorder for Photonic Applications
Dr. Paddy K.L. CHAN	Professor Jun TAKEYA (September 25, 2019)	Physics, Materials and Applications of High-mobility Organic Semiconductors and Flexible Circuit Applications
Professor P.T. LAI	Professor Chenming HU (September 12, 2019)	Semiconductor - World Impact and Future Prospect
Dr CHEN J.	Professor David PUI (April 17, 2020)	Filtration Solutions to Mitigate Coronavirus Aerosol and PM2.5 Pollutants

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor T. Zhang	Professor Pedro J. Alvarez (May 27, 2019)	Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment: A Vision to Enable Decentralized Water Treatment and Address Growing Challenges of the Water Energy Nexus
Professor G. Chiribella	Professor Artur K. Ekert (April 10, 2019)	Privacy for the paranoid ones - the ultimate limits of secrecy
Professor W.C.H. Choy	Professor David Mitzi (May 7, 2019)	High-performance thin-film photovoltaics: the search for an ideal solar absorber
Dr. Y. Lin	Professor Boris Rubinsky (December 3, 2018)	Engineering contributions to advances in life sciences and medicine
Professor L.Q. Wang	Professor Joanna Aizenberg (March 8, 2019)	Non-fouling medical devices: Slippery coatings that resist adhesion of biological matter
Dr. H.C. Shum	Professor Thomas P. Russell (December 18, 2018)	Structuring Liquids

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Dr. K Shih	Professor James O. Leckie (May 9, 2019)	Sustainable Urban Systems: Urbanization in the Era of Climate Change
Professor T Zhang	Professor Per Halkjaer Nielsen (March 27, 2018)	Insights into the Function of Microbial Dark Matter in Environmental Biotechnology
Professor YZ Yu	Professor David A. Forsyth (November 23, 2017)	New Scenes by Decomposition and Reassembly
Professor GQ Huang	Professor Gordon Cheng (June 6, 2018)	AI in the real world: from neuroscience to robotic innovations
Dr. WD Li	Professor L. Jay Guo (July 20, 2017)	Color Our World With Photonics
Professor YC Leung	Professor Jinyue Yan (October 30, 2017)	Clean Energy Systems with High Renewable Energy Penetration
Professor R.Y.K. Kwok	Professor Julio Ottino (April 16, 2018)	Engineering Complex Systems and Complex Systems Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor Q.Z.Q. Yue	Professor LIN Aiming (August 3, 2017)	Fault strength and seismic rupture mechanism
Dr. G. Chiribella	Professor Gilles Brassard (April 26, 2017)	Cryptography in a Quantum World
Dr. Wu Chuan	Professor Kien A. Hua (December 12, 2016)	Surging Demand for Internet Bandwidth: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. W. Choy	Professor Eric Mazur (March 24, 2017)	Less is More: A New Class of Optics with Zero Refractive Index for the Applications in Nanophotonics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quanum Entanglement
Dr. R.C. Roberts	Professor Srinivas Tadigadapa (September 19, 2016)	Resonators for Sensing Applications
Professor Ning Xi	Professor Ho Chih-ming (March 1, 2017)	Redefining the Drug Discovery Pathway - From Drug Candidate Search to Phenotypic Personalized Medicine (PPM)
Dr. K.L. Chan	Professor Takao Someya (November 16, 2016)	Bionic skins with ulraflexible organic devices

First Round

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor Y Z Yu	Professor Jean PONCE (December 2, 2015)	Making Computers Understand Images and Videos with Little Supervision
Professor P Y S Cheung	Professor Ruby B. LEE (June 14, 2016)	Designing computers that are aware of security threats
Dr Tony S P Feng	Professor Gang CHEN (July 24, 2015)	Materials and Devices for Efficient Solar and Thermal Energy Utilization
Dr Anderson H C Shum	Professor Howard STONE (August 17, 2015)	Elementary channel flows with surprising responses: (i) Biofilms and flow and (ii) Trapping of bubbles in stagnation point flows

Second Round

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Dr. T Zhang	Professor James M. TIEDJE (July 8, 2016)	Metagenomics: a crossroads of opportunity for environmental protection and management
Dr. Reynold Cheng	Professor H.V. JAGADISH (June 13, 2016)	Data Ethics: A Socio-Technical Framework for Doing Big Data Right
Dr. K K Y Wong	Professor Andrew WEINER (July 15, 2016)	Signal Processing at Light Speed: Ultrashort Optical Pulse Generation with Arbitrary Waveforms
Professor EX Wu	Professor LIANG Zhi-Pei (September 12, 2016)	Molecular Imaging Using Intrinsic MR Signals: A Path to High Resolution through Subspaces
Professor N. Tien	Professor Arun MAJUMDAR (September 1, 2017)	Options to Create a Sustainable Energy Future
Professor G Q Huang	Professor David PARKES (July 22, 2016)	Incentive Engineering: Getting to the Right Inputs
Professor L Q Wang	Professor Lorente SYLVIE (May 24, 2016)	The city: live organism with design and sustainability from principle
Professor James Lam	Professor Jan MACIEJOWSKI (November 28, 2016)	Modern control: making optimal decisions online
Dr Tony S P Feng	Professor REN Zhifeng (April 7, 2016)	High Performance Thermoelectric Materials and Superflexible transparent Conducors

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor Y.K. Kwok	Professor Albert Y. Zomaya (January 29, 2015)	Environmentally Sustainable Distributed Computing Systems
Professor Y.Z. Yu	Professor Irfan ESSA (December 11, 2014)	Video Cameras Everywhere: Data-Driven Methods for Video Analysis and Enhancement
Prof A.H.W. Ngan	Professor George M. Pharr (October 29, 2014)	Smaller is Stronger? - Exploring the Strange New World of Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior with Nanoindentation
Dr W.C.H. Choy	Professor Micheal Gratzel (June 25, 2014)	Light energy harvesting and charge carrier collection in mesoscopic solar energy conversion systems

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Prof Y.G. Li	Professor Paul Linden (July 9, 2014)	Fluid mechanics of sustainable building
Professor F. Chin	Professor Gordon Cheng (Mar 5, 2014)	Interaction between Humanoid Robotics and NeuroScience
Dr. M. Song	Professor David Simchi-Levi (Jan 3, 2014)	OM Research: From Problem Driven to Data Driven Research
Dr. Kaimin Shih	Professor Alexandra Navrotsky (Nov 25, 2013)	Energetics of Nanophase Oxides - Implications for Materials, Environmental, and Earth Science
Professor W.P. Wang	Professor Ming C. Lin (Nov 15, 2013)	Fast Visual Simulation of Complex Multiscale Phenomena
Professor Ed Wu	Professor Jürgen Hennig (Nov 18, 2013)	Visualize and Quantify Living Biological Systems: Present and Emerging Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologies
Professor G.Q. Huang	Professor David John Williams (Oct 16, 2013)	Healthcare Engineering: Making Regenerative Medicines
Professor D.Y.C. Leung	Professor M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer (Sep 26, 2013)	Meeting the Energy Challenge

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor F. Chin	Professor Avi Wigderson (May 22, 2013)	The "P vs. NP" problem: efficient computation, Internet security, and the limits to human knowledge
Professor V.O.K. Li	Professor Deborah Estrin (May 29, 2013)	mHealth: Leveraging every day mobile phones to personalize healthcare
Dr. M.X. Huang	Professor Jeff De Hosson (Oct 24, 2012)	Metallic Muscles at work

Applicant	Speaker	Lecture Topic
Professor K.Y. Sze	Professor Y.W. Mai (Apr 19, 2012)	Exploring Reinforcements of Different Scales in Polymer Composites
Dr. H.C. Shum	Mallinckrodt Professor David A. Weitz (Jun 12, 2012)	Dripping, jetting, drops and wetting: the magic of microfluidics

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