PanopticAI developed an AI health monitoring app using the camera on a smartphone or tablet to monitor the user’s vital signs such as heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure etc. A pilot scheme has been deployed to 10 to 20 elderly homes across the city.
The entrepreneurship success of the School of Engineering (SENG) members was recognized with six out of 18 start-ups in the “Unicorns HK 2021” shortlist being founded or co-founded by SENG faculty or alumni.
Breer was founded by the all-HKUST team: (from left to right) Suyash Mohan (2021 BBA in Economics), Anushka Purohit (Electronic and Computer Engineering undergraduate), Naman Tekriwal (Management undergraduate), and Deevansh Gupta (Marketing undergraduate).
Prof. King Chow, Acting Dean of Students at HKUST (right), and Mr. George Chen, Director of Public Policy for Greater China, Mongolia, and Central Asia at Facebook, kick-start the “Level Up Digital Talent Program” at the launching ceremony.
(From left) Prof. Albert Ip, HKUST Council member cum Independent Non-executive Director of New World Development Company Ltd.; Prof. Wei Shyy, HKUST President; Mr. Andrew Liao Cheung-Sing, HKUST Council Chairman; Dr. Adrian Cheng, Chief Executive Officer of New World Development Company Ltd., Executive Director of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd. as well as Vice Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of CTF Education Group, and Mrs. Jennifer Yu Cheng, Deputy Vice Chairwoman and Group President of CTF Education Group, unveiled the commemorative plaque of the “Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute”.
Nick Chin Jing-Wei (left) and Kyle Wong Kwan-Long (right) demonstrated their camera-based health and wellness monitoring solution at the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
