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Members of PAIR’s constituent research units shine at Geneva Invention Expo

30 Mar 2022

Awards & Recognitions

website - 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days (1)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has once again excelled in this year’s online special edition of the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (Geneva Inventions Expo) - Special Edition 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days – Virtual Event. The Exhibition is regarded as one of the most important annual global events devoted exclusively to inventions. This year, PolyU has garnered a total of six awards, including one Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury, one Gold Medal, three Silver Medals and one Bronze Medal. All of them are research projects of PAIR’s research institutes and research centres.

Four of the six participating projects are operated by PolyU supported start-ups which has already commercialised its research outputs. As the only university in Hong Kong taking part in the Nation’s space missions, the team lead by Prof. Yung Kai Leung, the director of Research Centre for Deep Space Explorations (RCDSE) is also actively developing instruments for the national space mission by leveraging its expertise in precision engineering.

In addition, PolyU is also striving to leverage its research to improve people’s quality of life. The participating projects this year, which incorporate research in the areas of cooling coatings, eco-friendly building materials, smart fabrics, nutritional supplements and AI music learning platform, are just a few examples of this effort.

Please find the six awarded projects in the following table. Please click the link of the website of the Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurship Office https://www.polyu.edu.hk/kteo/polyu-innovations/award/geneva2022/ for project details:

Project	Principal Investigator	Awards	Research Institute / Research Centre involved
Camera Pointing System for China’s Lunar Exploration Missions (Chang'e 3 and 4)	Prof. Kai-leung YUNG Sir Sze-yuen Chung Professor in Precision Engineering, Director of Research Centre for Deep Space Explorations, Chair Professor of Precision Engineering and Associate Head, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury	Research Centre for Deep Space Explorations
UmiCool: an Eco-friendly Smart Sub-ambient Radiative Cooling (SSRC) Coating	Prof. Jianguo DAI Professor and Associate Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Founder of Pro-Infra Science & Technology Limited (a PolyU Academic-led start-up)	Gold Medal	Research Institute for Land and Space
Carbon-negative Climate-smart Biochar Partition Block	Prof. Daniel Chiu-Wa TSANG Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Founder of NeutralCrete Limited (a PolyU Academic-led start-up)	Silver Medal	Research Institute for Land and Space and Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality
Omni-Cool-Dry™: a Desert Beetle Inspired Skin-like Fabric for Dynamic Thermal and Moisture Management	Dr Dahua SHOU Assistant Professor, Institute of Textiles and Clothing	Silver Medal	Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems
AkkMore™: a Fungus and Plant Based Supplement Against Obesity or Prediabetes	Dr. Gail Jinhui CHANG Research Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Co-founder of Bo InnoHealth Biotechnology Company Limited (a PolyU GBA Start-up PostDoc and PolyU Academic-led startup)	Silver Medal	Research Institute for Future Food
Algorithmic Music Composition Software for Popularising AI Education	Dr Gong CHEN PhD alumni of the Department of Computing, Founder of RhySoul Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited (a PolyU GBA Start-up PostDoc)	Bronze Medal	Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things

Research Units	PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research

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