Prof. Benny CHEUNG, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology and Associate Director of the Research Centre for SHARP Vision (RCSV), has recently been appointed as President of the Asian Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (ASPEN), a union of academic societies based in Asia that promotes collaboration among members and cultivation of young researchers.
Prof. Cheung is a chartered engineer (UK) and a fellow of the International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET). In 2022, he was named by Stanford University in the top 2% of the world’s scientists in the field of Industrial Engineering and Automation. Prof. Cheung and his research team developed the Nano Multi-rings Defocus Incorporated Lens for controlling myopia progression. The lens incorporates two PolyU-patented technologies: the Defocusing Incorporated Soft Contact Lens (DISC) Technology which can reduce myopia progression by 60% in children, and the Ultra-precision Nano Multi-rings Machining Technology (UPMT) which improves comfort in lens wearers. The lens will be fine-tuned and rolled out soon in Hong Kong and inland China by a PolyU-supported start-up, Vision Science and Technology Company Limited.
