Hong Kong Government Officials celebrate winners in renowned regional and international competitions on innovation and technology, including the HKU Teams

31 May 2019

A celebration luncheon was hosted by Mrs Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of HKSAR, on 24 May 2019 at the Government House to recognise the excellent performance of HKU teams at renowned regional and international competitions on innovation and technology.

Professor Andy Hor, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), and other HKU awardees including Professor Dennis Leung, Professor Liqiu Wang and HKU team members joined the luncheon in celebrating the achievements made by the local universities, research and development centres as well as local enterprises.

List of HKU awardees attending this event:

Name of HKU guest (awardees)	Department	Awards
1. Prof WANG Liqiu	Department of Mechanical Engineering	TechConnect Global Innovation Award received at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2018 held at the US for the project/invention “Omniphobic porous membrane and methods for preparing the same”.
2. Dr ZHU Pingan	Department of Mechanical Engineering
3. Dr HUANG Mingxin	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering	TechConnect Global Innovation Award received at the TechConnect World Innovation Conference & Expo 2018 held at the US for the project/invention “Super Steel - A method for the fabrication of a super-strong and ductile multi-phase steel”.
4. Dr HE Binbin	Postdoc researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering
5. Fano Labs Limited - Dr Miles WEN (HKU TSSSU Awardee)	CEO and Founder, Fano Labs Limited Alumnus, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU	Top Award in “Business Services - ICT Solutions” received at the 18th Asia Pacific Information and Communication Technology Alliance (APICTA) Awards held at Guangzhou in 2018 for the project/invention “Speech and natural language processing (NLP) technologies”.
6. Ms Jaime LAO	Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering	Top Award in “Student - Tertiary Students Project” category received at the 18th APICTA Awards held at Guangzhou in 2018 for the project/invention “An A.I. enabled solution for the coaching of presentation skills”.
7. Mr David LAU	Student, Department of Computer Science
8. Lifespans Limited - Mr Richard HOLLOWAY (HKU TSSSU Awardee)	CMO, Lifespans Limited	Top prize received at the Inaugural Hello Tomorrow Singapore Regional Summit in 2018 for the project/invention in “soft implants for soft bones”.
9. Dr Ruibang LUO	Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science	Innovators Under 35 in Asia Pacific awarded by MIT Technology Review in 2019 for the project/invention “Speed up precision medicine with algorithms and AI”.
10. Prof Dennis LEUNG	Professor and Associate Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering	IFIA Best Invention Award & iCAN 2018 Special Inventor Award received at the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN) 2018 held at Canada for the project/invention “A flexible paper-based AI-air battery”.
11. Flectrode Technology Limited – Mr Kent CHUNG (HKU TSSSU Awardee)	CEO	Gold Medal with the Congratulations of the Jury received at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva in 2019 for the project/invention “Transparent Conducting Film” – An embedded metal mesh transparent conductive film for emerging electronics
12. Flectrode Technology Limited – Dr Wendi LI (HKU TSSSU Awardee)	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
13. Mr Will LAM	Student, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering	First Prize Award received at the “2018 China Collegiate Computing Contest – 3^rd Mobile Application Innovation Contest” for the project/invention “Air Guitar”.
14. Mr Daniel KWOK	Student, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
15. Mr Alex TEOH	Student, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering