Past Events

Prof. Alex MIHAILIDIS of UToronto delivers a lecture on integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into elder care services

Prof. Alex MIHAILIDIS, Associate Vice President of International Partnerships at the University of Toronto delivered the 19th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “The Future of Elder Care: Integrating Large Language Models” on 26 April 2024. The lecture attracted about 100 participants to join in person and captivated an online viewing audience of over 14,100 from different countries and regions to watch the live broadcast on multiple social media platforms, including Bilibili, WeChat, Weibo, YouTube, etc.

Prof. CUI Zhanfeng of Oxford delivers lecture on biomedical engineering

Prof. CUI Zhanfeng, Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Oxford and Founding Director of Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research, delivered the 18th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Crosswalk between Engineering, Biology and Medicine” on 23 April 2024. The lecture attracted about 100 participants to join in person and captivated an online viewing audience of over 11,200 from different countries and regions to watch the live broadcast on multiple social media platforms, including YouTube, Weibo, Bilibili, etc.

PRI Distinguished Seminar Series by Prof. Zuyuan

The PRI Distinguished Seminar was successfully held yesterday, covering the topic of” Optical Fiber Distributed Acoustic Sensors: Challenges and Solutions”. The Distinguished Seminar was graced by the presence of Prof. Zuyuan He, Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, whose invaluable contributions and insights were central to the seminar’s success.

MHRC Seminar: Choice Preferences for Mental Health Services - A Comparison between Hong Kong and China’s Mega Cities

Prof CHEN Juan shares a survey result of what are the preferred mental health services Chinese (in major cities). The seminar also covers the insights for policy decision to more effectively allocate resources in establishing and improving the mental health care systems.

Prof. LIN Jianguo of Imperial College London delivers distinguished lecture on hot stamping techniques

Prof. LIN Jianguo, Head and Professor in Mechanics of Materials Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, delivered the 17th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “How to get high quality experimental data for hot stamping?” on 9 April 2024. The hybrid lecture attracted over 150 participants joining in person and online from more than ten countries and regions across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. It was also broadcast live on multiple social media platforms, including YouTube, Weibo, Bilibili, etc., captivating an online viewing audience of over 12,400.

PRI Distinguished Seminar Series by Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu

The Photonics Research Institute (PRI) Distinguished Seminar Series “Synthetic Interface Optics: Plasmonic / dielectric, TMDC and van der Waals Metasurfaces” was successfully held on 8 April 2024.

RIAM Seminar: Challenges of Traditional Manufacturing Techniques - Metal Forming

This presentation introduces the global urgent requirements for innovative metal-forming technologies for producing high-strength, lightweight and complex-shaped engineering components for transportation vehicles for energy saving and CO2 emission reduction. A few examples of innovative metal-forming techniques and modelling methods, developed at Imperial’s Metal-Forming and Materials Modelling Group, are presented, and future challenges are given.

RCRE Seminar: Sustainable Aviation Fuels - Fundamental Characterizations and Application-Oriented Implementations

Dr Song CHENG (ME) delivered a webinar with the topic of “Toward Net-Zero Air Travel via the Take-Up of Sustainable Aviation Fuels: Fundamental Characterizations and Application-Oriented Implementations” on 28 March 2024. The webinar was co-organized with CEE of PolyU and HKIE Environmental Division. Over 100 participants joined the webinar.

Geomatics expert Prof. CHEN Jun delivers a distinguished lecture on spatial-temporal information for sustainable development

Prof. CHEN Jun, Chief Scientist at the National Geomatics Center of China and Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered the 16th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Spatial-temporal Information for High Quality Sustainable Development” on 27 March 2024. The hybrid lecture attracted over 200 participants joining in person and online from more than 20 countries and regions across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. It was also broadcast live on multiple social media platforms, captivating an online viewing audience of over 10,700.

Gut microbiome expert Prof. Eugene B. CHANG delivers PAIR Distinguished Lecture

In his presentation, Prof. Chang first gave some fun facts about the human gut microbiome and explained that it is a vital organ of the body. Next, he elaborated on the importance of understanding a healthy gut microbiome and keeping it healthy. Prof. Chang stated that it is comparatively easy to determine the health of a vital organ through different tests but not the gut microbiome.