Past Events

Turing Award Laureate Professor Joseph Sifakis delivers lecture on AI and autonomous systems

The PAIR Distinguished Lecture delivered by Turing Award Laureate Professor Joseph Sifakis, Emeritus Senior CNRS Researcher at Verimag Laboratory, was successfully held on 3 March 2023.

RI-IWEAR Research Seminar VI

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RISports celebrates its official establishment at an inauguration ceremony

The Inauguration Ceremony of the Research Institute for Sports Science and Technology (RISports) was held successfully on 24 February 2023, attracting over 200 PolyU staff, students, alums, athletes, industry partners and friends. The Institute was jointly launched by officiating guests, including Mr WONG Kam-po (Ah Po), former Hong Kong Olympic racing cyclist, Prof. WONG Kwok-yin, Vice President (Education) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Prof. CHEN Qingyan, Director of the PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research (PAIR), Ir Prof. ZHANG Ming, Director of RISports, Prof. Lilly LI, Associate Director of PAIR, and Associate Directors of RISports including Prof. FAN Jin-tu, Prof. Amy FU and Ir Prof. WEN Chih-yung.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Reinhard GENZEL delivers PAIR Distinguished Lecture

The PAIR Distinguished Lecture delivered by Nobel Laureate Prof. Reinhard GENZEL, Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, was successfully held on 8 February 2023

First PAIR Salon successfully held

The PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research (PAIR) has launched a new series of “PAIR SALON” in 2023, with the aim to encouraging industrial collaboration and facilitating knowledge transfer.

20230213 RI-IWEAR Research Seminar V

The seminar featured talks by two speakers included presentations and discussions. The first speaker, Prof. Li Zhang, from the Department of Surgery at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), presented on the topic of Miniature origami robots and flexible devices for endoluminal applications. The second speaker, Dr Shiming Zhang, an Assistant Professor from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), presented on the topic of Scalable manufacturing of soft bioelectronics: materials, devices, and applications.

BME, RIAIoT and RISports successfully held first Distinguished Speaker Series

Prof. David WEITZ, Member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering (USA), and Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, gave a talk titled “Droplet-templated materials with microfluidics” in the Distinguished Speaker Series jointly organised by the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things (RIAIoT) and Research Institute for Sports Science and Technology (RISports) on 11 January 2023. The hybrid talk attracted about 200 participants from PolyU, universities in China and the industry.

The PAIR Public Seminar was successfully held on 10 January 2023

Dr WANG Yulun, Fellow at Teladoc Health and Co-founder and Chairman of World Telehealth Initiative and Maxcess Health, delivered the PAIR Public Lecture titled “An Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Surgical Robotics and Telemedicine, and their Convergence” in hybrid mode on 10 January 2023

CMA x PolyU Forum Artificial Intelligence of Things and Intelligent Wearable Systems

Keynote speaker Prof. Feng YAN, Professor of the Department of Applied Physics, and Associate Director of the Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems (RI-IWEAR), shared PolyU’s recent research on Flexible Organic Biosensors. This research aims to provide high-performance, low cost organic bioelectronic devices with medical and healthcare applications.

President of Westlake University, Prof. SHI Yigong delivers the PAIR Distinguished Lecture

President Shi began the lecture by providing a brief historical background about China’s education reform in the 1970s—millions of Chinese students enjoyed the new opportunities for overseas education brought by China’s reform and opening up, and students returned home with the knowledge that significantly impacted China’s development in education, science, and technology.