Guests of Honor
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Prof. Wei SHYY, JP
Professor Wei Shyy is the President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is concurrently Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining HKUST in August 2010 as Provost, he was Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson Collegiate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Michigan. He was previously employed by the University of Florida and GE Research and Development Center in Schenectady, New York. He earned his BS degree from Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, and his MSE and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
He is the author or a co-author of five books and numerous journal and conference articles dealing with computational and modeling techniques involving fluid flow, biological and low Reynolds number aerodynamics, combustion and propulsion, and a broad range of topics related to aerial and space flight vehicles. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Aerospace Book Series published by the Cambridge University Press, Co-Editor-in Chief of Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, a major reference work published by Wiley-Blackwell. He also serves as editor and member of editorial board of numerous peer reviewed journals.
Prof. Shyy is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has received awards for his research and professional contributions, including the AIAA 2003 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Memorial Award, and The Engineers’ Council (Sherman Oaks, CA) 2009 Distinguished Educator Award. He has also served as a consultant and on a number of national and international committees to support and review numerous private and public organizations as well as higher educational institutes. His professional views have been quoted in various news media, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, the USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, and the US News & World Report. Prof. Shyy has supervised more than 45 PhD students and mentored many postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars.
As an academic leader, Prof. Shyy has consistently advocated broadening the educational scope and approach, advancing research and knowledge transfer to help address global challenges. He is committed to promoting university’s societal engagement and independent, entrepreneurial spirit. He has also led efforts in fostering diverse and inclusive campus cultures to better reflect and support the university’s overall mission.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Prof. Lionel M. NI
Professor Lionel M. Ni took office as the Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on May 16, 2019. He is concurrently Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to this, he was Vice Rector (Academic Affairs) and Chair Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Macau. From July 2002 to December 2014, he served at HKUST in various capacities including Chair Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School and Special Assistant to the President.
Professor Ni earned his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1980. He was Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (1981 to 2002), the Microelectronic Systems Architecture program director at US National Science Foundation (1995-1996) and co-founder and CEO of CC&T Technologies, Inc., Michigan (1998-2001), and the Chief Scientist of the China’s National 973 Program on Wireless Sensor Networks (2006 to 2011).
Professor Ni’s research publications have received strong support with over 32,000 citations on Google Scholar. The winner of 8 best paper awards, he has multiple achievements including ownership of 27 US/China patents and having supervised 71 PhD students. A Life Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Professor Ni won the Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award from China Computer Federation in 2009, the First Class Award in Natural Sciences from the Ministry of Education, China in 2010, the Second Class Award in Natural Sciences for Research Excellence from the State Council, China in 2011, and the First Class Award in Science and Technology from the Guangdong Province in 2014.
The University of Hong Kong
Prof. Max SHEN
Concurrent with his role as Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Professor Shen is appointed as Chair Professor jointly in the Faculty of Engineering (Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering) and the Faculty of Business and Economics.
Professor Shen obtained his PhD from Northwestern University, USA in 2000. He started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the same year, and joined the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, where he rose through the academic ranks to become Chancellor's Professor and Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was also a Centre Director at the Tsinghua-Berkeley Institute in Shenzhen and an Honorary Professor at Tsinghua University, China. Professor Shen joined HKU in 2021.
With research interests in the areas of logistics and supply chain management, data-driven decision making, and system optimization, Professor Shen's research programmes cut through businesses, energy systems, transportation systems, smart city, healthcare management, and environmental protection. He has worked closely with industries and has a strong track record of securing major research grants from government agencies and private companies. PhD students he graduated now hold positions in top universities in North America, Europe, and China as well as in leading technological companies worldwide.
Internationally recognized as a top scholar in his field, Professor Shen is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the President-Elect of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and a past President of the Society of Locational Analysis of INFORMS.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Wai-Yee Chan
Prof. Chan obtained his BSc (Hon. 1st Class) in Chemistry from CUHK in 1974 and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Florida in 1977. In June 2009, Prof. Chan established the School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK and served as the Founding Director and Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice President of CUHK in August 2018.
Prof. Chan is very active in the scientific community, both locally and internationally. He has served as President of the Association of Chinese Geneticists in America and a member of the Development Committee of the Society for the Study of Reproduction in the USA.
Currently Prof. Chan is the President of Hong Kong Institution of Science, Council Member of the Shaw Prize Foundation, a member of the Hospital Authority, a member of Research Grant Council, a Director of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Genome Institute, a Specialist for the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, and a member of the Board of Directors of Joshua Hellmann Foundation for Orphan Diseases.
Keynote Speakers
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Former Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, HKSARG
Prof. K. C. CHAN, GBS, JP
Prof. K. C. Chan is Adjunct Professor and Senior Advisor to the Dean at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Business School. He was appointed as Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from July 2007 to June 2017. Prior to that, he was Dean of Business and Management in the HKUST. Before joining the HKUST Business School in 1993, Prof. Chan had spent nine years teaching at Ohio State University in the United States.
Prof. Chan received his bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago. He specialised in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency and has published numerous articles on these topics.
Prof. Chan held a number of public service positions including Chairman of the Consumer Council, Director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, and Member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Commission on Poverty, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee, and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He was former President of the Asian Finance Association and President of Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools.
Prof. Peretz LAVIE
Prof. Peretz Lavie joined the Technion Rappaport Faculty of Medicine in 1975 where he served as Dean from 1993-1999. In 2001 he was appointed as the Vice President of External Relations and Resource Development and from 2009-2019 he served as President of the Technion. He was the first President in the history of Technion to be elected for a third term serving a total of ten years.
Under his leadership the Technion stands among the top 100 world class research universities, distinguished by academic excellence, interdisciplinary research strategy, innovative globalization and financial stability. During his tenure, the Technion has recorded a number of impressive achievements led by the recruitment of more than 250 new faculty members, which involved raising extensive resources. He has led a transformational change in the quality of teaching on campus and in students’ satisfaction.
Prof Lavie conceived and played a principal role in the Technion's expansion to New York where, together with Cornell University, the Jacobs Technion Cornell Institute (JTCI) was opened on Roosevelt Island. Similarly, in China the Technion established the Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) in Shantou. After his retirement from the presidency in 2019, he was appointed by the President of Israel to chair the National Council for Civilian Research and Development.
Prof. Lavie is considered one of the founders of sleep medicine, publishing more than 400 scientific articles and eight books in the field of sleep research and sleep disorders. His book “The Enchanted World of Sleep" has been translated into 15 languages including Chinese and Japanese. His research has won many prizes, including the EMET prize in medicine (2006), the most prestigious prize for academic achievements in Israel. He is the founder and co-founder of 5 companies that develop and produce medical devices for sleep medicine and cardiology and provide diagnostic services. He is married to Dr. Lena Lavie, a cell biologist; they have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Professor of Biology & Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Prof. Harvey F. LODISH
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research,
Professor of Biology and Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A leader in the field of molecular and cellular biology, Dr. Harvey F. Lodish has isolated and cloned numerous surface membrane proteins that play a role in blood development, cell signaling, glucose transport, and lipid metabolism.
He earned his PhD at the Rockefeller University in 1966, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK.
A Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute, Dr. Lodish joined the MIT faculty in 1968 and has been Professor of Biology since 1976 and Professor of Biological Engineering since 1999.
Dr. Lodish is also the lead author of the widely used textbook Molecular Cell Biology. The book has been translated into 14 languages and the ninth edition appeared in January, 2021.
He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology, an Associate (Foreign) Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium.
He received the 2010 Mentoring Award from the American Society of Hematology, the 2016 American Society for Cell Biology WICB Sandra K. Masur Senior Leadership Mentoring Award, the 2016 Pioneer Award from the Diamond Blackfan Anemia Foundation, and the Metcalf Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Experimental Hematology in 2020.
During the 2004 calendar year Dr. Lodish served as President of the American Society for Cell Biology.
Dr. Lodish is the lead author of the textbook Molecular Cell Biology. The ninth edition was published in January 2021 and the book has been translated into 13 languages.
Dr. Lodish was a founder and scientific advisory board member of Genzyme, Inc., Arris Pharmaceuticals, Inc, and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In 2014, together with Flagship Ventures, he started Rubius, a now public company developing genetically modified human red blood cells for multiple therapeutic indications. Together with two parents of children with Dravet Syndrome, he founded Tevard, a company developing novel gene therapy therapeutics for several genetic brain and other disorders. And with two former students he founded Carmine, which develops red cell extracellular vesicles as gene delivery vehicles.
He has served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Eisai Research Institute in Massachusetts and on the Scientific Advisory Board of Astra and then AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. He has testified as an expert witness in seven high- profile biotechnology patent trials in Federal Court, notably Amgen vs. TKT Aventis in 2000, Amgen vs. Roche in 2009, and Biogen vs. Merck - Serono in 2018. He was on the winning side in all.
Featured Speakers/Panelists
Co-Director, Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology
Director, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Bio Design Engineering, Imperial College London
Prof. Geoff BALDWIN
Prof. Baldwin is Professor of Synthetic & Molecular Biology at Imperial College London, he is Co-Director of the Imperial College Centre for Synthetic Biology and Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in BioDesign Engineering. He has spent his career at the interface of the physical and life sciences and has been working in synthetic biology since 2009. He has an active programme of research in DNA assembly, part characterisation, RNA feedback control, circuit design and implementation. These are being applied to in vivo approaches to directed evolution for the creation of new specificity and functionality for biosynthetic pathway optimisation. He has been leading the interface of Synthetic Biology and Data Science, a key them of the CDT, and is leading a new initiative to advance AI based approaches to the engineering of biology. He has also been actively involved with developing entrepreneurship and commercialisation activities across the synthetic biology space.
Director, CoMotion
Vice Provost for Innovation
Director, Center for the Science of Synthesis Across Scales
Prof. François BANEYX
François Baneyx is the Charles W.H. Matthaei Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington where he serves as Vice Provost for Innovation, Director of the CoMotion Innovation Hub and Director of the Center for the Science of Synthesis across Scales, a Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Frontier Research Center. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Director of the University of Washington Center for Nanotechnology, Site Director of the Pacific Northwest node of the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, and Co-Director of the Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center, an NSF MRSEC. Dr. Baneyx earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and joined the University of Washington in 1992 after postdoctoral work at DuPont. His research interests are highly interdisciplinary and lie at the confluence of biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials science and protein and molecular engineering. He has authored or co-authored 113 publications, holds 4 U.S. patents on 3 technology suites, and is co-founder of the start-up Proteios. Professor Baneyx is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering, the American Academy of Microbiology, and a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Hospital Authority
Dr. Ngai-tseung CHEUNG
NT Cheung is the Head of Information Technology & Health Informatics of the Hospital Authority (HA) and also the Consultant for eHealth for the Hong Kong Government. He has taken HA from a virtual “green fields” site to today’s situation where every patient has a complete interoperable electronic patient record which can be accessed by his/her clinical carers in any of the 43 hospitals and 120+ clinics of the HA. The HA’s Clinical Management System (CMS) has been integrated into all the major care delivery process, providing decision support, workflow enablement, and informs the management and planning functions at all levels. His current work focuses on innovation and digitization to ensure the sustainability of healthcare in Hong Kong, with work streams including the next generation of the Hospital Authority’s Clinical Management System (CMS), HA’s single integrated patient app (HA Go) with integrated teleHealth, clinical AI and the Smart Hospital. Together these will enable new enhanced service delivery models in the post-COVID era, with patient-centric personalised care, advanced data driven decision support and risk prediction and enhanced clinical communications and operations.
He also works with the Government to operate and further develop the territory-wide Electronic Health Record Sharing System (eHRSS) and the wider eHealth ecosystem in Hong Kong. The eHRSS provides a standards-based, detailed patient record reaching across nearly 2000 provider organizations in the public and private healthcare sectors.
NT is active in the informatics research and education communities, and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. He holds a medical degree from the University of Sydney and a Master’s degree in computing science from Imperial College, London
Prof. Koenraad DEBACKERE
Koenraad Debackere (Ph.D.) is a professor of Technology and Innovation at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven. His research has focused on the design of technology and innovation management practices and policies, the development of indicators for measuring the societal and economic impact of science and innovation policies, the role of entrepreneurial universities in economic development and the management and growth of technology intensive companies. Since 1999, he has been actively engaged in technology transfer activities as managing director of KU Leuven Research & Development and Chairman of Gemma Frisius Fonds (the venture fund of KU Leuven with BNP Paribas and KBC). Over the last twenty years this has led to relevant experience with the development and growth of technology intensive, innovative entrepreneurial companies.
Director of Technology Transfer Center,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dr. Kim joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2020 as Director of Technology Transfer Center and CEO of HKUST R&D Corporation Limited, and was concurrently appointed as Acting Associate Vice-President for Knowledge Transfer in July 2021.
Dr. Kim has successful track records in Innovation and Entrepreneurship development and strategic organizational transformation. Prior to joining the HKUST, he served as Director of Technology Transfer Office, Managing Director of Versitech Limited, founding Director of iDendron (an in-campus startup incubator) and Associate Director of Knowledge Exchange Office in the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Kim served as a Senior Vice President at Exploit Technologies Pte. Ltd (2007-2016), a commercialization arm for Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) of Singapore, where he commercialized more than 300 technology portfolios, created dozens of startup with multiple exits, sizable international collaboration projects and thousands of industry projects. He received the “Dedicated Service Award” in 2012.
He also has a strong experience in startup management. He was a founding member of NESS Display Co. Ltd (2000) in Korea and Managing Director of NESS Display Singapore Pte. Ltd (2004-2007), which attracted the investment of more than US$100million and commercialized OLED display using self-developed linear evaporation system for the first time in the world. He served many board and advisory positions for the companies, incubators and government bodies.
Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Physics from Yonsei University and filed 14 patent applications.
Lingnan University
Dr. KO Wing Yin
Albert is an experienced engineer, accomplished entrepreneur, innovative educator and a humanitarian worker. His research interests include robot-assisted search and rescue systems, humanitarian technology, and emergency water and sanitation systems. He is Director of Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative and Service-Learning at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Albert was the first Hong Kong engineer to join Médecins Sans Frontiers’ field missions in 2000. He volunteered in South Sudan during the civil war, Uzbekistan during 911, Indonesia during the South-East Asia Tsunami, Pakistan during the Kashmir earthquake, and Sichuan during the Wenchuan earthquake. Albert has completed 13 months of field mission and served as board members and advisors for major international relief organizations, including MSF and Red Cross, for nearly 10 years.
Albert co-founded INSIGHT Robotics with 2 friends in 2009 and developed world’s most accurate wildfire detection robot to protect valuable natural resources. The Company now has over 50 staff from 12 nationalities based in 5 offices around the globe. In China alone, over 70 robots are currently operating in 5 provinces. IBM named INSIGHT Robotics as Global Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015 for its cutting-edge technology and social responsibility.
In 2006, Albert solo-cycled 2000 km across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau to raise $200,000 for Medecins Sans Frontiers. Prior to the Sichuan Earthquake, Albert organized the first "Emergency Engineering" course in 2006 with HK Institution of Engineers to prepare young engineers for demanding emergency relief operations. Some of the participants later contributed to the relief work in Sichuan Earthquake.
Office of Innovation and Enterprise, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Daniel HS Lee
Daniel is a clinical biochemist by training and obtained his PhD in Pathology at the University of Hong Kong. He has serviced the pharmaceutical industry for over 25 years including JNJ, Biogen, GSK and lately served as General Manager and Head of site for Roche Pharma R&D China in Shanghai from 2010. He has broad experience in the drug discovery and development business, familiar in both small molecule and biologic drug discovery and development covering therapeutic areas from CNS, infectious diseases, diabetes complications to oncology and inflammation. Over the years he has published over 50 papers, actively engaged in teaching, grant/manuscript reviews, and named as a co-inventor for 15 patents. He served as Head of Biomedical Technology Cluster, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks and engaged in repositioning the biomedical technology industry in Hong. He has been consulting for several institutes and biomedical technology companies, holds Adjunct Professorship of Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Honorary Professorships of Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, and School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Innovation & Technology Fund Research Projects Assessment Panel, member and mentor of the Hong Kong Life Science Society (HKLSS). He is currently Associate Vice-President and Chief Innovation and Enterprise Officer, Office of Innovation and Enterprise of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Vincent Medical Holdings Limited, Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr. Rupert MOK
Rupert Mok graduated in the Master of BioMedical Engineering at University of New South Wales, Australia in 1984 and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at University of Sydney in 1982. He has developed his career in the field of medical devices with various roles as service engineer, sales & marketing executive, general manager and regional marketing manager in Asia Pacific for multinational companies Telectronics, Boston Scientifc (Guidant) and Abbott (St. Jude Medical) from Australia and USA. His specialty is in cardiology with experience in diagnostic and monitoring equipment, ultrasound scanners, heart-lung machine for open heart surgery, vascular balloons & stents in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and implantable pacemakers and defibrillators. Rupert participated in pacemaker implants operations in catherization theatre and patient follow up clinics. He interacted with doctors and patients to optimize the functions of pacemakers. Rupert introduced remote monitoring (Cloud based) of heart failure patients with implantable defibrillators in Grantham Hospital and other Asia countries in 2011-2012.
Currently, Rupert focuses to contribute to the medical device industry and hold the following positions
- Vincent Medical Holdings Limited: Independent Non-Executive Director
- Innovation and Technology Commission: Member of the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) Research Project Assessment Panel (Biotechnology) and Enterprise Support Scheme (ESS) Assessment Panel Assessor
- Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Devices Industry Association: Secretary General and Executive Board Member; Chairman of the Membership Affairs Panel
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: Industrial Advisor in BioEngineering Undergraduate Program
Researcher (Senior Director), Alibaba DAMO Academy USA
Dr. Le LU
Le Lu received a Computer Science PhD in 2007 from Johns Hopkins University. During his first six years at Siemens, he made significant contributions to the company’s CT colonography and Lung CAD product lines. From 2013 to 2017, Dr. Lu served as a staff scientist in the Radiology and Imaging Sciences Department of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. He then went on to found Nvidia’s medical image analysis group and he held the position of senior research manager until June 2018. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Executive Director at PAII Inc., Bethesda Research lab, Maryland, USA which has become one of the leading industrial research labs in medical imaging. He was the main technical leader for two of the most-impactful public radiology image dataset releases (NIH ChestXray14, NIH DeepLesion 2018). He won NIH Clinical Center Director Award in 2017, NIH Mentor of the year award in 2015, and won numerous best paper awards in recent MICCAI and RSNA technical and clinical conferences from 2016 to 2021 (over 11600 citations). In 2021, He was elected into IEEE Fellow class cited for his contribution to machine learning for cancer detection and diagnosis, and MICCAI society board member (MICCAI-Industry Workgroup Chair). He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and leading conference papers in Nature Communications, Clinical Cancer Research, IEEE TMI, MedIA, etc. He is the (co-)inventor of 69 USPTO/PCT patents (granted or pending).
The University of Tokyo
Prof. Kazuyuki MOTOHASHI
He is also served as a faculty fellow at RIETI (Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry) and a visiting researcher at NISTEP (National Institute for Science and Technology Policy). Until this year, he had taken various positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of the Japanese Government, economist at OECD and associate professor at Hitotsubashi University. His research interest covers a broad range of issues in economic and statistical analysis of innovation, including economic impacts of information technology, international comparison of productivity, national innovation system focusing on science and industry linkages and SME innovation and entrepreneurship policy. He has published several papers and books on above issues, including Productivity in Asia: Economic Growth and Competitiveness (2007), Global Business Strategy: Multinational’s Venturing Into Emerging Economies (2014). He is an editor of Research Policy.
Dr. Yuan NI
Yuan Ni got her bachelor from Fudan university, computer science department at 2003 and got her Ph.D. from National university of Singapore, school of computing at 2008. She has worked in IBM research from 2008 to 2017 and take part in the Watson project at IBM. She has won the Outstanding Achievement Award in IBM. Yuan Has joined PingAn since 2018 and is leading the medical NLP department in PingAn Healthcare Technology. She has leading the team to develop AskBob doctor platform to help the medical knowledge searching and clinical decision support for doctors. The platform has more than 1 million registered doctors. She has won the outstanding manager of PingAn group and Top 10 best team in PingAn tech.
National University of Singapore
Co-founder, AdvanceSyn Pte Ltd, Singapore
Dr. Chueh Loo POH
Dr. Chueh Loo POH is an Associate Professor with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He is a Principal Investigator at NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation (SynCTI) and leads the NUS Biofoundry. He is member of SINERGY consortium technology management committee. He obtained his PhD in Bioengineering from Imperial College London, UK and B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. His research interests in Synthetic Biology include microbial cellular biosensors, optogenetics, and DNA data storage. His group has been reprogramming microbes for health and sustainability applications. He has founded the BioMakerSpace at NUS which runs the NUS iGEM teams. He is currently a member of the Global Biofoundry Alliance (GBA) steering committee and a co-chair of GBA software working group. He has received several awards including Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship and Excellence in Teaching awards. He is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of Wiley/IET Engineering Biology journal.
Our Hong Kong Foundation
Mr Kenny SHUI
Kenny Shui is currently the Assistant Research Director and Head of Economic Development at Our Hong Kong Foundation, where his research areas span across Economics and Finance, Innovation and Technology, Social Innovation, and Arts and Cultural Innovation, and has overseen the publication of reports on Biotechnology and Gerontechnology in 2021. Prior to joining Our Hong Kong Foundation, he was responsible for a variety of research work in different organizations including the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and also worked as a Statistician in the HKSARG Census and Statistics Department. He is a graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Mathematics and a Master of Philosophy degree in Economics.
Mr. Chibo TANG
Chibo Tang, Managing Partner of Gobi has been investing in tech startups in China for over a decade. He is Head of Gobi’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) practice, and manages the Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund (AHKEF) for which Gobi is the exclusive General Partner (GP). He has led numerous investments including Airwallex, WeLab, GOGOX, AutoX, Amber Group, Animoca Brands, Prenetics, OneDegree, Urban Revivo, DayDayCook, AQUMON, SHOPLINE, and SandboxVR.
Chibo is recognized in the industry as Silicon Dragon Venture Capitalist of the Year 2017, Top 25 Global Corporate Venturing Rising Star 2019, Top 10 Global Corporate Venturing Emerging Leader 2020, a member of Generation T Asia Tatler Tribe, and is an Advisory Council Member of the Asia Technology Entrepreneurship Conference.
Chibo received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College, and received his MBA in Finance from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Chibo began his career as Strategy Consultant with Monitor Group, focusing on ASEAN and MENA region, then spent time at Robert Bosch as Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy APAC. Chibo joined Gobi Partners in 2009 and is currently a Managing Partner based in Hong Kong.
President of Victor and William Fung Foundation
Director of Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies and Master of Residential College, International Campus of Zhejiang University
Emeritus University Professor, University of Toronto
Prof. Lap-chee TSUI
Prof. Lap-chee Tsui, world-renowned molecular biologist, he is currently Founding President of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, President of Victor and William Fung Foundation, Director of Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies and Master of Residential College in International Campus of Zhejiang University, and University of Toronto’s Emeritus University Professor. He was the 14th Vice Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong. He is world renowned for his research work in human genetics and genomics. He has over 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 65 invited book chapters. He is the recipient of many national and international prizes, including the 2019 Association of Chinese Geneticists in America Lifetime Achievement Award in Genetics and the 2018 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize. His other awards include 16 honorary doctoral degrees from prestigious universities around the world.
Prof Jue WANG
Jue Wang is an Associate Professor in Public Policy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She received her Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to NTU, Jue Wang worked at Florida International University in Miami, and Enterprise Innovation Institute in Atlanta and Fraunhofer ISI in Germany. She is interested in technology and innovation policy and has led projects funded by National Research Foundation and Ministry of Education on innovation activities in Singapore. She was part of the OECD expert group reviewing China’s national innovation system, and the former country correspondent for European Commission’s Erawatch and ProInno Trendchart projects.
Dr. Meng YANG
Leading the team to develop deep learning methods for genomics big data. Research interest inclueds genome representation learning, single cell multi-modal integration and spatial pathology omics
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology,
Chinese Academy of Science, Shenzhen, China
Dr. Youming ZHANG
After finishing the bachelor in Xiamen University and master degree in Peking Union Medical College in China, Youming Zhang was studying in Medizinische Klinik I, Heidelberg University as a doctorial student (Doctorand) from 1990 till 1995 and Prof. Peter Nawroth as the supervisor. He obtained a Doctor Degree (doc. Sc. Hum.) as one of the best winners (SUMMA CUM LAUDE) in 1995 because of the publications in Nature and Journal of Clinical Investigation et al.. After 2 years post-doctorial research work in Prof. Peter Nawroth’s laboratory, he joined in Dr. Francis Stewart’s laboratory in European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg as a post-doctor in 1997. Long Term Fellowship from European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) was awarded to him in 1998 to perform the research in EMBL. Based on the Red/ET Recombination or Recombineering technology developed by mining of microbial genomes and large gene clusters resulted in the publications in Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods and Nucleic Acids Research et al.. Youming Zhang becomes the Director of State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology in Shandong University, China since April, 2013. He built a laboratory in Shandong University and the scientific results have been published in Nature Protocols, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications and Nucleic Acids Research et al.. After April 2021, Youming Zhang joined College of Synthetic Biology, SIAT CAS and became the director of Department of Engineering Biology. Youming Zhang in Dr. Francis Stewart’s laboratory in EMBL, he published the fundamental this synthetic biology technology in Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology and Genes&Development et al.. Gene Bridges GmbH was set up in 2000 to commercialize the Red/ET Recombination or Recombineering technology. As one of the co-founders and chief scientific officer, he is responsible for the technology and running the R&D in the company till 2013. His outstanding research in Gene Bridges focusing on the The impact factor of Youming Zhang’s publications reaches 780 and the total citations is above 12450, H-index is 53 (Google Scholar Citations). Based on the invention and application of Red/ET recombineering technology, Youming Zhang obtained and applied more than 15 international patents together with his colleagues. The technology is widely used over the world by Biotech/Pharma companies and research laboratories. Youming Zhang became the member of Academia Europaea in 2019 and the member of National Academy of Science and Engineering, Germany (Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften, acatech) in 2020.
Dr. Yefeng ZHENG
Yefeng Zheng received a Ph.D. degree from University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 2005 width a dissertation on handwritten document image analysis. Before that, he received B.E. and M.E. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. After graduation, he joined Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, first as a Research Scientist in Tencent Jarvis Lab, leading the company's initiative on Medical AI. His research interests include medical image analysis, natural language processing, document image analysis, computer vision, and deep learning. He has published 150+ papers on top journals and conferences in the above fields, which have been cited 8000+ times with h-index of 46 according to Google Scholar. He invented 70+ US patents. including a patent on Marginal Space Learning based heart chamber segmentation, which won the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award of New Jersey R&D Council in 2011. He is a major contributor for several other prestigious awards too, including Siemens Top+ Innovation Award in 2010 and the Techno-College Innovation Award of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) in 2010. As a co-developer of an Asian Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, he won the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award (2nd class) of China in 2003. He is an elected fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), a senior member of the IEEE, a Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2021, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (impact factor 6.7) since 2018, and was an Associate Editor Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (impact factor 5.2) 2013-2018.
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Prof. Tim Kwang-Ting CHENG
Prof. Tim CHENG Kwang-Ting became the Dean of Engineering in May 2016 in concurrence with his appointment as Chair Professor jointly in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1988 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Before joining HKUST, he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he served since 1993. Prior to teaching at UC Santa Barbara, he spent five years at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
At UC Santa Barbara, Prof. Cheng had taken up various important academic leadership roles, such as Founding Director of the Computer Engineering Program from 1999 to 2002, Chair of Department of ECE from 2005 to 2008, Acting Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research in 2013 and Associate Vice-Chancellor for Research from 2014 to 2016 where he helped oversee the research development, infrastructure, and compliance of UCSB’s research enterprise with over US$200 million extramural research funding. A highly respected teacher-scholar and internationally leading researcher with excellent experience in fostering cross-disciplinary research collaboration, Prof. Cheng is a world authority in the field of VLSI testing and design verification, as well as an impactful contributor across a wide range of research areas including design automation of electronic and photonic systems, mobile computer vision, and learning-based multimedia computing. He had previously served as Director of the US Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Center for 3D Hybrid Circuits which integrated CMOS and nano-memristors for future computing systems. He has published more than 400 technical papers, co-authored five books, held 12 US patents, and transferred several of his inventions into successful commercial products. He is a Fellow of IEEE and his works are of high impact with due recognition from the field, including 11 best paper awards and one Distinguished Paper Citation in major conferences and journals. He was also recognized as the Top 10 Author in Fourth Decade Award and Design Automation Conference (DAC) Prolific Author Award at the 50th DAC 2013.
Prof. Cheng has been very active in providing professional services to the IEEE and to the academic community at large. Having served as the editor-in-chief of IEEE Design & Test of Computers, on the boards of IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation’s Board of Governors and IEEE Computer Society’s Publications Board, and on various technology advisory or working groups including the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), Prof. Cheng has been internationally known as an eminent member of the field.
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Prof. King L. CHOW
Prof. Chow, received his PhD in Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine. He was a Belfer Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine before joining HKUST. His own research focuses on molecular genetics of body patterning, neural development, synthetic and evolutionary biology, and he runs a laboratory with diverse model organisms. He experimented extensive on various teaching pedagogy including exploratory project course, MOOC and extensive flipped classes, and was awarded the Science School Teaching Award and the Michael G. Gale Medal of distinguished teaching at HKUST. He also heads the Center for Development of the Gifted and Talented nurturing gifted students. Over the years, he has set up a number of successful undergraduate and graduate programs, e.g., Mol. Biomed. Sci., Bioengineering, Individualized Indterdisciplinary Major, etc. He served as Academic Director of the Common Core Program, the Director of Interdisciplinary Programs Office overseeing the development of Environment, Sustainability, Public Policy, Technology Management, Risk Management and Business Intelligence, as well as currently as the Dean of Students.
Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design
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Prof. Naubahar SHARIF
Naubahar Sharif (Ph.D., Cornell University, 2005) is Professor of Public Policy at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests include science, technology and innovation (STI) policy in Hong Kong and within the ‘Greater Bay Area’ of Southern China; automation in China; and the ‘Belt and Road’ initiative. In 2011 he completed the Executive Education program in Innovation for Economic Development at Harvard University. A dedicated teacher, at HKUST he has been nominated for the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching, also having won the Interdisciplinary Programs Office’s Teaching Excellence Award (in 2020), the School of Humanities and Social Science (SHSS) Best Teacher Award (twice, in 2009 and 2016), and one of his courses was nominated for the Common Core Excellence award. Naubahar has been awarded both ‘Public Policy Research’ (PPR) and ‘General Research Fund’ (GRF) grants by Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council (RGC). Currently, Naubahar is a co-investigator for two ‘Strategic Public Policy Research’ (SPPR) grants awarded by Hong Kong’s Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (PICO) as well as a cross-institutional ‘Collaborative Research Fund’ (CRF) grant also awarded by the RGC. He has had numerous articles published in leading journals including Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, The China Journal, and Science, Technology and Human Values. From 2006–2010, Naubahar consulted for Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC). Naubahar’s research has had a demonstrable impact on business and his research was one of HKUST’s few ‘impact case study’ submissions (sole-authored) for its 2020 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). He frequently writes opinion pieces for local newspapers including the China Daily (Hong Kong Edition) and the South China Morning Post, and he has been featured in local print media as well as local television. On a voluntary basis, Naubahar presently serves as a Distinguished Research Fellow at a private independent school in Hong Kong, as Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), as a Council Member for the Hong Kong Sociological Association (HKSA), as Senior Advisor to The Joseph Needham Foundation for Science & Civilisation (Hong Kong), as a Member of the HKSAR Government Advisory Committee on Mental Health, and as an Appointed Member of the HKSAR Government’s Mental Health Review Tribunal.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Prof. Bert SHI
Bert is a Professor at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He initiated and now serves as director of the Master of Science program in Electronic Engineering. He is a member of the Human Language Technology and Automation Technology centers. Between 2001-2008, he was Director of the Consumer Media Laboratory.
His research interests are in bio-inspired and neuromorphic engineering, analog VLSI and cellular neural networks, machine vision, and image processing. Most recently, his research team has been building large-scale neuromorphic implementations of functional models of visual cortical neurons using either mixed-signal custom VLSI chip, or embedded system designs using DSP and FPGA chips. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in for his contributions to the analysis, implementation and application of cellular neural networks. He is currently serving his second term as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. For the past eight years, he has organized or co-organized the Vision Chips/Vision Systems workgroup at the Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop.
Bert has been both an Associate and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I. He helped found the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Technical Committee on Cellular Neural Networks and Array Computing, serving as its first Secretary and later as Chairman. He was Technical Program Chair for the 2004 IEEE International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and their Applications, and was the General Chair in 2005.
He received the B.S. with distinction and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Prof. Xun WU
Professor Xun WU is a professor at the Division of Public Policy and the Division of Social Science.
Professor Wu is a policy scientist with a strong interest in the linkage between policy analysis and public management. Trained in engineering, economics, public administration, and policy analysis, his research seeks to make contribution to the design of effective public policies in dealing emerging policy challenges across Asian countries. His research interests include policy innovations, water resource management, health policy reform, and anti-corruption, and his work has been published in top journals in his fields of study, such as Policy Sciences, Public Administration Review, Governance, Social Sciences & Medicine, and Water Resources Research. He is a co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy, and Cambridge Elements in Public Policy.
He has been involved extensively in consultancy and executive education. He has consulted for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, UNEP, International Vaccine Institute, and numerous government agencies on a variety of topics, such as infrastructure planning and development, environmental and social impact assessment, design and implementation of randomized control trials (RCTs), and Public-Private Partnership. He has designed and delivered customized executive education programs in policy development, leadership, and public sector management for a diverse range of clients, such as Bank of Indonesia, Yunnan Provincial Government of China, Public Utilities Board (PUB) of Singapore, General Secretariat of the Executive Council (GSEC) of UAE, and Ministry of Water Resources of Nepal.
Prior to joining HKUST, he held a faculty position (2001-2015) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore, while serving as the Director of the Institute of Water Policy. He had also worked as a lecturer in Renmin University of China (1988-1992) and a survey specialist at the World Bank (2000-2001).
His media expertise includes infrastructure development, water security, health policy reform and anti-corruption.