Prof. CHAI Yang wins Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year Award 2024

Prof. CHAI Yang, Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Science and Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, won the “Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year Award 2024” for “breaking the wall of efficient sensory AI systems”. Prof. Chai is one of ten winners in the Engineering & Technology category.

Prof. Chai has conducted groundbreaking research on sensory artificial intelligence (AI), paving the way for more energy-efficient, low-latency and memory-optimised AI systems and significantly enhancing diverse applications such as mobile devices, IoT sensors and edge computing. He has developed novel hardware architectures and optimisation techniques that enable the deployment of advanced sensory AI systems, transforming applications in smart cities, autonomous vehicles and industrial automation. 

Prof. Chai is currently a Management Committee Member of the Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems (RI-IWEAR), and a Member of the Photonics Research Institute (PRI), the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Research Institute for Smart Energy (RISE) and the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Internet of Things (RIAIoT).