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.

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.

Prof. Victor OK Li gave a talk and spoke at a panel at "Interdisciplinary Quick Talks - Open Data Open Possibilities" held at HKU in Feb 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.

Meeting with Secretary for Innovation and Technology Bureau, Mr. Nicholas Yang, regarding the role of tertiary education in technology transfer, and the focus of R&D in HK by the HKSAR government.

Key members of HKU-CambridgeU Research Platform had an informal meeting with Mr. Kam-shing Wong on 11 Nov at the HKSAR Government Building. The meeting covered various issues related to clean energy and environment.