The Rise of AI

The arrival of ChatGPT may have excited media and social media experts and the general public about the prospects of artificial intelligence. But to engineers, there was nothing new under the sun.The concept of AI has been around for decades. Back in 1950, the British...

Pedal to the Metal

Professor Cecilia KY Chan thrives on being busy. Before the age of 30, while she was assistant professor at an Irish university, she added a Masters in Education to her PhD in Electronic Engineering and at the same time introduced initiatives that vastly increased...

Less Pain, More Gain

One of the biggest problems with tooth replacement – particularly for the patient – is the amount of time it takes and the discomfort involved. Multiple fitting procedures can be tedious and uncomfortable. From the dentist’s viewpoint, existing design processes can...

Connecting through Campusland

“The Data Science Lab (DSL) developed HKU Campusland and used mixed reality to bring the virtual world to the real world and vice versa,” said Dr Adela Lau, Deputy Director of DSL in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science (SAAS). “Users create an avatar...

Oral Surgeons Bring AI Tool to Nigeria

In 2022, researchers in the Faculty of Dentistry led an international team to develop an AI web tool that could predict patients’ risk of developing oral cancer. The tool, based on the AI algorithm DeepSurv, had a 95 per cent accuracy rate on a cohort of more than 700...