Invention Turns Waste Heat into Electricity

More than 60 per cent of the electricity generated by power plants and industrial processes is lost as waste heat, and more than half of that is low-grade heat that is difficult to recover. Dr Tony Feng Shien-Ping of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has broken...

Shedding Some Light

In 2018, two Computer Engineering students, Desmond Wong Chi-ping and Felix Wong Kwong-yat, were sifting through numerous ideas to submit for contention in the China Collegiate Computing Contest, when Felix read a news article about the severe shortage of guide dogs...

Facial Recognition: The Next Phase

A decade ago, facial recognition technology that used artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision was still largely confined to the laboratory. That was about to change and among the pioneers was Dr Ping Luo of the Department of Computer Science. Dr Luo was doing...

Making It Work

Dr Yiwu He’s resume includes an impressive range of high-end academic, industry and philanthropic exposure: postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, 11 years with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) where he served as Global Head and Senior Director, nine years at the Bill...

Softening the Blow

“We wanted to become the most respected orthopaedic implant company worldwide for the elderly, by offering the safest, most effective and most innovative treatment options for fracture repair in patients with soft, fragile bone tissue,” said co-founder Dr Sloan...