HKUST establishes the Von Neumann Institute (VNI) today. Mr. Paul CHAN, Financial Secretary of HKSAR (fourth right); Dr. Pál KERTÉSZ, Consul General of Hungary in Hong Kong (third right); Ms. Clara CHAN Ka-Chai, Chief Executive Officer of HKIC (second left); Prof. Harry SHUM, HKUST Council Chairman (third left); Prof. Nancy IP, HKUST President (second right); and Prof. GUO Yike, HKUST Provost (first right), together with Director of VNI Prof. JIA Jiaya (first left) and Vonnex, an AI robot developed by Prof Jia’s research team, officiate the plaque unveiling session.
A group photo of Mr. David Taji Farouki (second row, ninth left), President of the Jury of the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva (Geneva Inventions), Ir Andrew Young (second row, ninth right), Hong Kong’s official representative for Geneva Inventions and the HKUST delegation led by Dr. Kim Shin-Cheul (second row, tenth right), Associate Vice-President for Research and Development (Knowledge Transfer).
The research team is under the supervision of Prof. Kwok Hoi-Sing (center), Founding Director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Displays and Optoelectronics Technologies at HKUST. Core member Dr. Feng Feng (left), a postdoctoral research fellow at HKUST’s Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), serves as the first author. The team also includes ECE postdoctoral research fellow Dr. Liu Yibo (right).
HKUST is appointed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to spearhead an international collaboration project for the Chang’E 8 mission. Key research project personnel from HKUST include Prof. YU Hongyu (3rd left), Prof. SUN Qingping (2nd left), Prof. SHI Ling (2nd right), and Prof. DUAN Molong (1st right).
Mr. David Taji Farouki (in bright blue suit), President of the Jury of the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, takes a picture with all the HKUST delegation members, including Associate Vice-President for Research & Development (Knowledge Transfer) Dr. Shin Cheul Kim (2nd row, 3rd left) and Dean of Engineering Prof. Hong K. Lo (2nd row, 7th left), and the official representative of Hong Kong for the Exhibition Ir Andrew Young (2nd row, 5th left), Associate Director (Innovation) of Sino Group.
Prof. Kevin Chen has successfully fabricated a first-of-its-kind hybrid field-effect transistor which harnesses the complementary merits of gallium nitride and silicon carbide.
Prof. Yeung King-Lun from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Division of Environment and Sustainability at HKUST (front left) and Dr. Pat Yeung, Director of APEL (front right), sign the memorandum on the establishment of the Joint Lab under the witnesses of Under Secretary Miss Diane Wong (back row, second right), Prof. Tim Cheng (back row, second left), Mr. Jackin Jim, Chairman of Yee Hop (back row, first right), and Dr. David Chung (back row, first left).
Prof. Yang Zhengbao, Associate Professor at HKUST’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (center), CityU postdoctoral fellow Dr. Li Xuemu (right) and CityU doctoral student Zhang Zhuomin (left)