PolyU has won three prestigious global Innovation Awards at TechConnect 2022. The awarded researchers: Dr Dahua Shou (1st from left), Prof. Jing Cai (2nd from left) and Prof. Hong Hu (3rd from left) are congratulated by Prof. Christopher Chao, Vice President (Research and Innovation) of PolyU.
Prof. Hu developed a new moisture-absorbing and sweat-releasing fabric that is simpler, cheaper, and more environment-friendly to produce.
Dr Shou’s team invented the first automatic temperature-controllable mask Omni-Cool-Breath that facilitates cool breath and thermal comfort under various activities and thermal conditions.
PolyU has won three prestigious global Innovation Awards in the areas of AI, materials science and biotechnology at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference and Expo 2022 – the world’s largest multi-sector event for fostering the development and commercialisation of innovations. This is the sixth consecutive year that PolyU research teams have snatched the esteemed awards among top-ranked innovators, and PolyU is the only higher education institution in Hong Kong to be honoured with the awards this year.
The award-winning PolyU innovations include an AI-empowered chest X-ray imaging technique for clinical applications, an automatic temperature-controllable mask, and a new type of more environment-friendly moisture-absorbing and sweat-releasing fabric.
Press release
理大在人工智能、材料科學和生物科技的領先研發 榮獲三項TechConnect全球創新獎 (Chinese)
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