PROGRAMME DETAILS

Dr Alan Cheung

Chief Director, Artificial Intelligence and Trust Technologies, ASTRI

Dr Alan Cheung is the Chief Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Trust Technologies division at ASTRI. He leads the division in driving ASTRI’s initiatives, particularly in FinTech and Smart City, through Generative AI, multimedia data analytics, Federated Learning, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, and privacy-enhancing applications. The division has won numerous local and overseas innovation awards, including the Hong Kong ICT Awards, Asia FinTech Award, and the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva.

Dr Cheung’s collaboration partners comprise both the public and private sectors. They include government departments and regulators such as the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, as well as financial institutions and corporations. He also contributes to the community through various volunteer roles, such as member of the Standing Committee on Technological Developments of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD).

Dr Cheung has over 25 years of rich R&D and management experience. He previously worked for Sun Microsystems (Oracle) and ATI Technologies (AMD) in California, the United States (US). He holds an Engineering Doctorate degree from the City University of Hong Kong, an Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He is also the owner of multiple US patents.

Mr Donald Mak

Deputy Commissioner (Data Governance), Digital Policy Office, HKSAR Government

Ms Ada Chung

Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data

Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling was qualified as a barrister and a Certified Public Accountant. She has solid legal expertise in privacy law, company law, tax, trust and administrative law. Ms Chung also has abundant experience in regulatory and administrative work. Before her appointment as the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Ms Chung was the Registrar of Companies, Registrar of Money Lenders, and had held various posts in the Department of Justice, including the Deputy Law Officer (Civil Law).
 
As the Privacy Commissioner, Ms Chung was instrumental in amending the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to more effectively combat doxxing behaviour and she led the criminal investigation division of her office in instituting criminal investigations and prosecutions into suspected doxxing offences. To promote AI security, she also led her team in the compilation of a Guidance on the Ethical Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hong Kong in 2021 and a Model Personal Data Protection Framework for Artificial Intelligence in 2024.
 
Ms Chung was a member of the Sub-group on Cross-boundary Data Collaboration of the Digital Economy Development Committee set up by the Financial Secretary. She currently sits on the Professional Advisory Board of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law of the University of Hong Kong and is a member of the Hong Kong Expert Group on Cross-boundary Data Collaboration.

Mr Fred Sheu

National Technology Officer, Microsoft Hong Kong

As National Technology Officer at Microsoft Hong Kong, Fred Sheu supports policy decision and delivers technologically relevant solutions into Hong Kong market. Fred’s main objectives are to align IT value propositions to public policies in such areas as healthcare, education, the environment, and local social and economic development; and to promote a digital agenda in top policy areas, including innovation, AI, security and privacy, technology neutrality, accessibility, and interoperability.

Prior to Microsoft, Fred worked with Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise where he was the General Manager of Software for HPE Hong Kong.

Fred is an active veteran in Hong Kong ICT industry, he serves in councils of Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS), itSMF Hong Kong Chapter and the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF). Other public services roles that Mr. Fred Sheu is currently serving include Member of Innovation and Technology Training Board (ITBB) of VTC and Convener of its IT sub-committee, Member of OGCIO’s Advisory Committee of the “IT Innovation Lab in Schools” program, Vice Chairman of Innovation, Data and Communication Committee of Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, and Member of sub-group on Talent Development of HKSAR Government’s Digital Economy Development Committee.

Fred graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hon) degree.

Prof Helen Meng

Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Helen Meng is Patrick Huen Wing Ming Chair Professor of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She joined CUHK in 1998 and has served as Department Chairperson, as well as Associate Dean of Research for CUHK’s Faculty of Engineering. Professor Meng has been leading various joint partnerships, including with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), MIT, Tsinghua University and Dr. Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation. Her collaboration with MSRA led to CUHK’s first engineering laboratory to achieve the national status of a Ministry of Education Key Laboratory. In 2019, her interdisciplinary team was awarded the first AI project under the HKSARG RGC Theme-based Research Scheme, which aims to develop AI technologies for screening dementia. In 2020, she led the establishment of CUHK’s InnoCentre on AI, named Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence, and serves as Director.

Since 2019, Helen has been serving as head of curriculum development of the CUHK-HKJC AI4Future Project, leading the creation of Hong Kong’s first pre-tertiary AI curriculum, with a focus on AI ethics. The AI4Future Project was recognized with the Gold Award of the Hong Kong ICT Awards Smart People Award 2021. The curriculum is being taught in all local secondary schools starting in 2024. Helen and her team have won many other awards, including the Gold and Silver medals of 49th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2024, 2023 and 2024 INTERSPEECH Best Student Paper Award, the US National Academy of Medicine's Healthy Longevity Global Grand Challenge 2024, the First Prize of the international DialDoc@ACL 2022 Challenge, Hong Kong’s SciTech Challenge 2021 Open Category Championship, 2019 IEEE SPS Leo Beranek Meritorious Service Award for service and leadership, etc. Helen has also served as the elected Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, a top journal in her field. Helen is a Fellow of the IEEE, ISCA, HKIE and HKCS.

Ms Mable Chan, JP

Secretary for Transport and Logistics, HKSAR Government

Ms Mable Chan was appointed the Secretary for Transport and Logistics on 5 December 2024.

Ms Chan joined the Government as an Administrative Officer in 1989. She has served in various bureaux and departments. Her recent postings included Deputy Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (Treasury) from July 2012 to July 2016, Deputy Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (Financial Services) from August 2016 to October 2017, Commissioner for Transport from October 2017 to July 2020 and Permanent Secretary for Transport and Logistics (formerly named Permanent Secretary for Transport and Housing (Transport)) from August 2020 to December 2024.

 

Dr Eddy Chiu

Director, Communications Technologies, ASTRI

Dr Eddy Chiu joined ASTRI in 2012 and has led R&D projects on 4G to 6G technologies, spectrum management, and smart city communications networks.  Locally in Hong Kong, Eddy has led multiple telecommunications consultancy projects and 5G-based connectivity solution projects for Hong Kong Government departments and public sector.

Eddy is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the Vice Chair of the IEEE Hong Kong Section in 2022 and 2023, and the Treasurer of the IEEE Hong Kong Section in 2020 and 2021.  He is an active reviewer for various IEEE Transactions and various other journals on wireless communications, and he frequently serves on the technical program committees of major IEEE conferences on wireless communications. 

Mr Samuel Lam

CEO, X Social Group Holdings Ltd.

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Mr Dongzhe Su

Director of Smart Mobility Technologies and Chief Engineer of V2X System, Communications Technologies, ASTRI

SU DONGZHE, Director of Smart Mobility and Chief Engineer of V2X System at the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute. He has been leading the system architecture in research and development of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication and application systems and connected autonomous vehicles (CAV) systems. His role has been to define the technical scope and overall system design for ASTRI's V2X networking system. In 2021, ASTRI launched one of the world's largest C-V2X public road tests in Hong Kong, covering a 14 km route with various road environments of Hong Kong. Since 2023, ASTRI has launched CAV/C-V2X trails in different areas of Hong Kong. 

Dr Weisong Wen

Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering;
Team Member, Research Centre for Deep Space Explorations (RCDSE), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr. Weisong Wen, assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, director of the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Laboratory (TAS Lab) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Wen is at the forefront of pioneering advancements in autonomous systems (such as UAVs and self-driving cars) technology, emphasizing the importance of safety, reliability, and ethical standards. In particular, Dr. Wen’s recent research focuses on trustworthy perception, positioning, and control for unmanned autonomous systems (UAS). The TAS Lab, led by Dr. Wen, is home to a diverse group of researchers and engineers who specialize in artificial intelligence, robotics, cybersecurity, and human-system interaction.

In 2020, he graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a Ph.D. and is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (2018). He has published more than 40 SCI academic papers and 45 academic conference papers in the field of unmanned autonomous systems. He has served as the branch/field chairman of IEEE ITSC, the top conference in the field of intelligent transportation, and ION GNSS+, the annual meeting of the American Navigation Association. He was the guest editor (Electronics), associate editor (e.g. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology), etc. of the journals. His research on high-precision LiDAR positioning and mapping algorithms in urban environments was awarded the Best Presentation at ION GNSS+ 2020, with judges including the Chief Scientist from Google's self-driving car division, and the 2021 TechConnect Innovation Award, which has been commercialized through industry collaboration. His technological breakthroughs have earned him a nomination as a "Young Talent in Research and Innovation" at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Wen's satellite navigation positioning algorithms for complex environments have addressed the issue of insufficient positioning accuracy in urban settings. His work has been featured in leading journals such as Inside GNSS and has received industry recognition, leading to multiple invitations to deliver academic presentations. In 2021, as a principal contributor, he also established industry collaborations. Dr. Wen's research achievements have been recognized with patents in the United States and Canada.

Dr Jiandong Qiu

General Manager, SUTPC Digital Technology (Hong Kong) Limited

Qiu Jiandong, a Professor-level Senior Engineer and the General Manager of SUTPC Digital Technology (Hong Kong) Limited, specializes in multimodal transport modeling and simulation, as well as intelligent connected vehicles, with 17 years of extensive experience. He has not only achieved remarkable accomplishments in the development of system platforms such as the traffic modeling software TransPlan, the big data computing platform TransPaaS, and the low-carbon transportation system EmissionModel, but also successfully promoted their application demonstrations in over 20 major cities, including Riyadh and Dammam in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, as well as Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Chongqing in China. He has received multiple first prizes in scientific and technological progress at the ministerial and provincial levels, authored five monographs on transportation, and published over 50 papers. He is also an expert reviewer for key research projects under the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2015, he established the "Future Transportation Laboratory" globally and has been recognized as one of the "Top Ten Young Craftsmen" in Shenzhen's state-owned assets system and as a high-level leading professional talent in Shenzhen. At the upcoming AIST Intelligent and Connected Vehicles Forum, Professor Qiu Jiandong will leverage his profound background in transportation technology to deeply analyze the challenges and potential business opportunities faced by the low-altitude economy from a technical perspective.

Mr Kenny Chan

Chief Director, Innovative Mind, ASTRI

Mr Kenny Chan is a seasoned professional with over 25 years of industry experience on emerging sensing and display-related technologies. As the Head of Innovative Mind (INM) Technology Division at ASTRI, he leads the Emerging Sensing and Display Technology (ESDT) core competence group (CCG) in developing cutting-edge technologies. These include photonics devices, optical sensing and display modules, hardware systems, and various sensing and display software methodologies.

Under his guidance, INM delivers innovative product solutions such as micro display (LCoS), diffractive optics (DOE), holographic optics (HOE), waveguide optics for anti-counterfeiting, 3D sensing modules for behaviour analysis, multi-factors biometrics sensing devices, and AR/VR/MR displays.

Mr Chan’s expertise spans applied research, product design and manufacturing, product marketing, management and start-ups. He has a proven track record of driving technology commercialisation through technology licensing, contract services, management buyouts, and spin-offs. The technology solutions developed by his team have been successfully deployed in various sectors related to Smart City and the Metaverse, including caring, construction, and transportation. Mr Chan’s leadership has been instrumental in establishing joint R&D centres and laboratories with top-tier domestic and international companies, promoting Hong Kong’s sensing and display technologies in Mainland China and abroad.

Under his leadership, the R&D team has won two Hong Kong Industrial Awards, three HKICT Gold Awards and five Geneva Invention Gold Awards. As an inventor himself, Mr Chan has filed 10 patents, with six granted so far.

Mr Chan has chaired the AR Forum in China International Optoelectronics Exposition since 2015. He holds a Master of Electronics Engineering focused in Digital and Image Processing from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

Mr Luca Verre

Co-founder and CEO, Prophesee (France)

Luca Verre is Co-Founder and CEO of Prophesee, the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems. Prophesee’s patented technology is inspired by human vision, giving sight back to the blind and unleashing new safety standards and autonomy to cars, robots and mobile devices. 

Luca is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. He has extensive international management experience in the industrial and electronics sectors. His experience includes project and product management, marketing and business development roles at Schneider Electric. Prior to Schneider Electric, Luca worked as a Research Assistant in Photonics at the Imperial College of London. Luca holds a MSc in Physics, Electronic and Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and Ecole Centrale and an MBA from INSEAD.

Mr Eric Jang

Executive Director, May Display (Korea)

Mr Jerry Wu

General Manager, Solution Business Group, Shanghai Westwell Technology

Mr. Wu Bo (Jerry Wu), holding a master's degree from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, currently serves as the General Manager of the Solution Center at Shanghai Westwell Technology Co., Ltd. He joined the Qingdao Port in 2014 as a core technical staff member, participating in the construction of Asia's first fully automated terminal. In 2019, he joined Westwell Technology, where he successively worked as Product Design Manager, Deputy General Manager of the Software Technology Department, and General Manager of the Solution Center. During his time at Westwell Technology, he not only led the team to achieve multiple technological breakthroughs, but also accumulated rich experience in technology application and business case implementation.

Dr Daniel Shi

Vice President, Advanced Electronic Components and Systems, ASTRI

Dr SHI has 30 years of working experience in advanced semiconductor field, including 3rd generation semiconductor. Before joining ASTRI in 2007, he had worked at the City University of Hong Kong, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Philips and Intel in different research and management positions.

Dr SHI received his PhD from Tsinghua University, China in 1995. He has published more than 120 international journal and conference papers. He has 30 granted patents. He received First Prize of the 2020 State Science & Technology Progress Award. He is the vice-director of Chinese National Engineering Research Center (CNERC) for Application Specific Integrated Circuit System (Hong Kong Branch), and the director of international collaboration committee of China Advanced Semiconductor Alliance (CASA). Also he serves as guest professor at the Peking University, China.

Dr Tian-cang Du

General Manager ( Futian Power Supply Bureau) of Shenzhen Power Supply Co., Ltd
General Manager（Hong Kong & Macau Affair) of China Southern Power Grid International (HK) Co., Limited

Dr. Du is a senior Engineer with over 23 years’ experience and over 20 years’ experience of assets management in the power industry. Dr. Du has joined the power industry since 1999, involving various segments of the industry, including power system communication, information, automation and also international power assets management.

Dr Jimmy Hu

Chairman, Shenzhen Haylion Technologies

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Prof Henry Chung

Chair Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

Henry Shu-Hung Chung received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 1991 and 1994, respectively.

Since 1995, he has been with the City University of Hong Kong, where he is currently the Dean of Students, a Chair Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Director of the Centre for Smart Energy Conversion and Utilization Research. He has published two books, authored ten research book chapters, and more than 500 technical papers including 250 refereed journal papers in his research areas, and holds 80 patents. His current research interests include renewable energy conversion technologies, lighting technologies, energy harvesting, smart grid technologies, and computational intelligence for power electronic systems.

Dr. Ching is Fellow of IEEE. He was recipient of 2021 IEEE PELS R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award for his contribution to energy utilization technologies for smart cities. He received CityU Outstanding Research Award in 2020 and CityU Teaching Excellence Awards in 2018 and 2022, respectively. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Power Electronics Letters 2014–2018. He was also the Chair of the Technical Committee of the High-Performance and Emerging Technologies, IEEE Power Electronics Society in 2010–2014. He was the recipient of numerous industrial awards for his invented energy saving technologies.

Dr Chen Jung Tsai

Chief Director, IoT Sensing and AI Technologies, ASTRI

Dr Chen Jung Tsai joined ASTRI in 2005. In recent years, he has led the development of award-winning applications, including head-mounted display, automatic optical inspection, and AI-based defect detection. The technology division he leads has expertise in a wide range of technologies, including high dynamic range (HDR) display, smart digital signage, 2D/3D pico projector, sensing system, wearable Head-mounted display (HMD) for AR/VR applications, automotive head-up display (HUD), biometric & human machine interaction (HMI) sensing, 2D/3D automatic optical inspection (AOI), intelligent industry robot, deep learning machine vision, intelligent manufacturing (industry 4.0), smartphone spectrometer & hyperspectral imaging and intelligent IoT sensing related technologies.

Dr Tsai is a veteran researcher with more than 25 years of experience and more than 60 patents granted in the US, Mainland China and Taiwan.

Before joining ASTRI, Dr Tsai was with the National Taiwan University, supervising students in optical inspection and semiconductor packaging technologies. He also worked at Macronix, responsible for the development of new packaging and implementation of mass production.

He holds a PhD in Applied Mechanics and a Master in Applied Mechanics from the National Taiwan University, and a Bachelor in Agriculture from the National Chung-Hsin University in Taiwan.

Dr Chun-tat Lui

Convenor, Smart Hospital Program Committee, New Territories West Cluster, Hospital Authority

Dr Lui is a clinical consultant of the emergency department of New Territories West Cluster, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong. He is the Chairman of the IT IS Committee and the Convenor of Smart Hospital Committee of the New Territories West Cluster. Dr Lui is the chairman of the Smart Ward Committee of Hospital Authority and leads series of projects in digital transformation, IoT and AI application in healthcare.

Dr Mark Mak

Chief Scientist, Robotics Research Centre, China Resources Research Institute of Science and Technology

Dr. Mark Mak was awarded Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Persons in 2024 and is currently the Chief Scientist at the Robotics Research Center of the China Resources Science and Technology Institute. He is an expert in AI applications and human machine intelligence. In 2018, Dr. Mak developed China's first 5G humanoid robot independently, showcasing the country's technological prowess at several Belt and Road Initiative countries. To date, he holds over 120 patents and has developed more than 40 products

Mr Victor Wong

CEO, Bridge AI Limited

Victor Wong has strong passion in education. He founded Bridge Academy in 2014, a school that provides Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services for children of aged 2 and above with learning difficulties. More than 1,000 special education needs (SEN) students had received ABA services at Bridge Academy since 2014. In 2024, Victor has taken up the role of School Supervisor at Aoi Pui School, the first primary school in Hong Kong registered with Education Bureau, providing services to SEN students through the application of ABA. Victor has also founded Bridge AI, an Edtech company using Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data and video and audio communication systems to support SEN students. He is now collaborating with Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) in a project funded by the Hong Kong Innovative and Technology Bureau (ITB) to develop the Integrated Intelligent Intervention-learning system (3i-learning system) that tailors the individual needs of students with SEN. This groundbreaking system has been widely adopted by over 1,000 SEN students across special schools, hospitals, and training centers in Hong Kong and Singapore and has garnered recognition as the UNESCO Best Practice Technology for SEN students in 2024. Prior to Bridge Academy and Bridge AI, Mr. Wong spent 8 years with Alvarez and Marsal. He was a senior member of the Asian team that successfully managed the global restructuring of Lehman Brothers real estate and non-performing loan assets. In particular, he managed Lehman Brothers’ office and safeguarded its assets and interests in Korea. Victor is a Doctor of Education student at The Education University of Hong Kong and holds a master’s degree in accounting from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also a speaker at IEEE conferences about next-generation technologies for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.

Dr Daniel Lau

Chief Engineer & Scientist, Apex Sphere Limited

Dr. Daniel Lau,  currently Director, Apex Sphere Ltd. and U Resonance Ltd. (URL) pioneering Spatial-Temporal Technologies and Applications driving GNSS for Next Generation of Intelligent City Infrastructures.   Director of Raymedy Bio-Energy InnoTech Ltd advancing integrated bio-informatics and digital healthcare.

Extensive Asia experience in advanced semiconductor, high-speed optoelectronics systems, life sciences, continuing education for systematic innovation, research commercialisation, global technology partnership.    Career includes IBM, Bio-Rad, City University of Hong Kong.  

In 2002, Daniel Lau became Founding President of Hong Kong Optoelectronics Association which he led to gain international recognition for his pioneering efforts to lead emerging optoelectronics industry in Hong Kong, Greater China Region and Asia.

In 2003, Co-founded Ralong Business Technology Academy that pioneer systematic innovation in Hong Kong and Asia.  In 2005, awarded Six Sigma Black Belt by CALCE, University of Maryland.