Prof. He has been successfully nominated and received the prestigious Global STEM Professorship Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Prof. He will create a new platform to facilitate academic-industrial collaboration in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, which is dedicated to developing and translating new treatments and novel ways of delivering eye care into clinical practice, in particular focusing on functional eye diseases and artificial intelligence. Prof. He is actively recruiting postdoc fellows, PhD/Master students, and visiting fellows for his ongoing research projects.

“Hong Kong is a unique place where East meets West. The Greater Bay area is the largest and most populated urban area and is among the four largest bay areas in the world. Optometry is unique in the way that it focuses more on the functioning of our human eyes - myopia, presbyopia, ocular fatigue, dry eye and other conditions, although, these problems will not lead to severe visual impairment or blindness immediately, but do bring patients many functional problems that currently are largely ignored by ‘mainstream medicine’. To solve these problems, we need to think about new ways to do our science, new ways to work with industrial partners, new ways to treat the problems, and further translate them into products for clinical benefit. We encourage the most audacious and multi-disciplinary minds to join us to make a difference together”.