The HKU-AI WiSe team, led by Prof. Victor OK Li and Prof. Jacqueline CK Lam from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Faculty of Engineering, is honored to express our deepest gratitude to the Head of the EEE Department, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and HKU TEC for their invaluable support. Their backing enabled us to become the only team led by full-time HKU Engineering professors to win both gold and silver medals at Inventions Geneva 2025.

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Our achievements include the DeepDrug project, awarded the Gold Medal in the Medical Track, and the UMeAir project, which earned the Silver Medal in the Protection of Environment/Recycling Track. These awards reflect our commitment to the mission of AI for Social Good. Our team’s innovations, developed with the expertise of AI researchers from the HKU EEE Department, stem from research projects bolstered by four consecutive US NAM HLCA awards and a competitive RGC-TRS award, in collaboration with Cambridge University and Tel Aviv University.

AI for Social Good: Novel artificial intelligence models have been developed by the HKU AI to Advance Well-being and Society Research Hub over the last decade, aiming to identify early-stage biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease for early diagnosis and treatment, and making real-time air pollution reports for different places in Hong Kong.

Prof. Victor OK Li and Dr. Jacqueline Lam had a meeting with Mr. Meir Buber of Tel Aviv University (TAU) to discuss collaborations between HKU and TAU on AI and well-being research.

Mr. Andong Wang (middle), our new PhD student for September 2019 admission, and a graduate from Tsinghua University, has been awarded the RGC-Hong Kong Postgraduate Fellowship (HKPF). HKPF is a prestigious and highly competitive fellowship for PhD students admitted to universities in HK.

Prof. Victor O.K. Li and Dr. Jacqueline C.K. Lam discussed research collaboration with Prof. Yossi Rosenwaks, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Michal Mor Shtorch, Executive Director of Hong Kong Friends of Tel Aviv University on March 12, 2019.

Dr. Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research of Microsoft Corp., USA,is an honorary advisor of our RGC-TBR project. We are grateful for Microsoft’s sponsorship of Azure cloud computing service. Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon (middle), Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research Asia, and Dr. Eric Chang (right), Senior Director, Technology Strategy, Microsoft Research Asia, had a fruitful meeting with Prof. Victor OK Li, Director of AI-WiSe.

Lunch meeting between Prof. Eli Yablonovitch, Prof. Xiang Zhang, President of HKU, Prof. Victor OK Li and Dr. Jacqueline CK Lam.

An HKU team led by Professor Victor On-Kwok Li, Chair of Information Engineering and Cheng Yu Tung Professor in Sustainable Development in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) has won the prestigious international award, “The Facebook Low Resource Neural Machine Translation Award”.

From left to right: Dr. Jacqueline C.K. Lam, Miss Yingruo Fan, Prof. Victor O.K. Li

Prof. Victor O.K. Li and Dr. Jacqueline C.K. Lam discussed research with Prof. Jon Crowcroft of Cambridge University in his office.

Prof. Victor O.K. Li and Dr. Jacqueline C.K. Lam discussed research collaboration with Dr. Nicolas Guernion of the Alan Turing Institute, UK.

Prof. Victor O.K. Li and Dr. Jacqueline C.K. Lam discussed research collaboration with Prof. Frank Kelly, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, and Trustee of the Alan Turing Institute, UK.

Fano Labs, an AI startup founded by Prof. Victor O.K. Li and his PhD student Dr Miles H.F. Wen, received Gold and Grand honours in the Smart Business category of the Hong Kong ICT Awards in March 2018.