Professor Gunnar Öqvist (3rd from right), Professor of plant physiology, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Professor Mats Benner (2nd from right), Professor of science policy studies at Lund University and KTH-Royal institute of Technology, Stockholm visited ASTRI on 9 November 2017. Mr Wong Ming-yam (3rd from left), Chairman of ASTRI; Ms Grace Hui (1st from right), Chief Administrative Officer of ASTRI, Dr Justin Chuang (2nd from left), VP, Next Generation Network, ASTRI and Ms Eunice Cheng (1st from left), Director, Public Affairs of ASTRI welcomed the guests. They learnt more about the latest developments in ASTRI and exchanged views on future collaboration. They also visited our newly developed Smart City Innovation Centre.
Led by Mr Joe Wong Chi-cho, JP (photo above, 5th from right), Director of Information Services, delegation from Information Services Department of HKSAR Government visited …
Accompanied by official from Information Services Department of the HKSAR Government, Mr Omer Caspi, Director of North-East Asia Department, Asia and the Pacific Division, Ministry …
Led by Prof Theodore Henry King Clark (2nd from right of the last row), Associate Professor, Information Systems of Hong Kong University of Science and …
Led by Ms Wang Xiaochun (7th from left of the 1st row), Traffic Engineering Bidding Supervision and Management Office of Anhui Province Officer, the delegation …
Dr Fakhreddine Karray (2nd from right), University Research Chair Professor and Co-Director, Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo …
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under five Technology Divisions: Advanced Electronic Components and Systems; Artificial Intelligence and Trust Technologies; Communications Technologies; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies; and Intelligent Perception and Control Technologies. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.
Over the years, ASTRI has nurtured a pool of research, I&T talents and received numerous international awards for its pioneering innovations as well as outstanding business and community contributions. ASTRI has transferred about 1,600 technologies to the industry and has been granted close to 1,200 patents in the Chinese Mainland, the United States, and other countries.
As a Hong Kong R&D centre, one of ASTRI’s important goals is to help customers harness business opportunities from the thriving technology market and increase their competitive strengths. Customers and partners can improve their efficacy by drawing on ASTRI’s expertise and research achievements.