HKU Demo Day
06 Dec 2023
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Event Details:
Join us for an exhilarating display of innovation and entrepreneurship at HKU Demo Day. This event offers two parallel tracks: Advanced Tech and Healthcare, where startups from each field will present their venture ideas and receive valuable feedback from VC investors. We welcome you to witness the future of Advanced Technology and Healthcare and to support these promising startups on their journey to success
Agenda:
Each project team or start-up will have a 10-minute presentation and pitch, followed by a 5-minute Q&A session.
Project teams /Start-ups lists:
Advanced Tech:
No. | Project Title/ Description | Category | Person-in-charge | Faculty |
1 | Development and Commercializing Wearable Robots for Elderly Assistance | Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics | Prof Xi Ning | Engineering |
2 | Next-Gen Robotics: Enhancing Human Lives through Intelligent and Autonomous Drones and Robots | Advanced Manufacturing | Dr. Lu Peng | Engineering |
3 | Flexible metalens for portable medical imaging | New Materials and New Energy | Prof Nicholas Fang | Engineering |
4 | Synthetic diamond wafers and solutions for diamond-based microelectronics, optoelectronics, and next-gen semiconductors. (第四代半導體) | Semiconductor materials | Prof Lu Yang | Engineering |
5 | Scalable Nanomanufacturing Equipment and Service for Next-generation Nanostructured Products | Advanced Manufacturing | Dr. Wendi Li | Engineering |
6 | Tailoring semiconductor material electrical, optical and dielectric properties; and improving device performance via atomic scale defect control | Advanced Manufacturing | Dr. Francis Ling | Science |
7 | DPmat: AI for Advanced Materials | Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics | Prof David Srolovitz | Engineering |
8 | Empowering Elder Care: Precision Behavioral AI for Personalized and Private Assistance | Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics | Dr. Chenshu Wu | Engineering |
9 | Water Treatment and Resource Recovery using Electrocatalytic System | Environmental | Dr. Edmund Tse | Engineering |
10 | Towards Adaptive And Efficient Manipulation: Next-Generation Robotic Arm Technology | Advanced Manufacturing | Dr. Rio Peng | Engineering |
11 |
AutoCDE: A One-Stop Smart Built Asset Platform powered by BIM and A.I. Technology |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, Engineering, Other innovation and technology-related sectors | Dr. Llewellyn Tang | Architecture |
Healthcare:
No. | Project Title/ Description | Category | Person-in-charge | Faculty |
1 | Chemmino is developing novel optical spectral devices with widest wavelength coverage, smallest size and lowest affordable price in the world, for various analytical applications everywhere, anytime, and by everyone | New Materials and New Energy | Prof. Chi Ming Che | Science |
2 | Development of influenza viral vector based vaccines for respiratory viral diseases | Industrial Biotechnology | Prof. Hong Lin Chen | Medicine |
3 | Aging vaccine for healthy aging and treatment of aging-associated disorders | Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) | Prof. Zhongjun Zhou | Medicine |
4 | An Innovative Chinese Herbal Therapeutic Treatment to Reduce the Conversion of MCI to AD | Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, Chinese Medicine, Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) |
Dr. YQ Song | Medicine |
5 | PROHEP an innovative microbial therapy for the prevention and treatment of liver cancer: Pathway for commercialization | Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) | Dr. Hani El-Nezami | Science |
6 | At COMPASS Health Technology, we harness the power of AI to create cutting-edge solutions for drug discovery and health management, aiming to tackle the urgent needs of the aging society. | Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics, Chinese Medicine, Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) |
Dr. Zhang Qingpeng | Medicine |
7 | Precision medicine for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and liver fibrosis | Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) | Prof. XU Aimin | Medicine |
8 | Gamma delta T cell cancer therapy, exosome based cancer therapy and cancer vaccine | Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) | Prof. Wenwei Tu | Medicine |
9 | Microfluidic device that can recreate the tumor microenvironment with mechanical shear stress to capture the highly metastatic cells as a model for metastasis biology | Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) | Prof. Alice Wong | Science |
10 | Development of Natural Compound-derived Non-antibiotic Antivirulence Drugs for the Treatment of Diseases Associated with Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA | Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) | Dr. Richard Kao | Medicine |
11 | BiomOrgan, A Pathfinder of Organoid Technology | Health and Medical Sciences (i.e. Medical Biotechnology) | Dr. Zhou Jie | Medicine |
Registration (Pre-registration is required):
https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=91485
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