Senior Scientist Of INRIA Visits ASTRI

Dr Jean-Pierre Talpin, Senior Scientist, French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique or INRIA) visited ASTRI on 9 December 2016. He met with Dr John Koo, Director, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and had an in-depth discussion on CPS for enabling the design of Smart Factory.

Founded in 1967, INRIA is France’s only established public science and technology institution that is fully committed to computational sciences. Combining computer sciences with mathematics, INRIA’s over 3,400 researchers strive to become inventors for the digital world.

ASTRI and INRIA formed an international partnership in 2015 on “Virtual Prototyping of Embedded Software Architectures” which will last for a period of four years on a renewable basis.

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Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is founded in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As Hong Kong’s largest government-funded research and development centre, ASTRI is a key force and super connector driving innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the global innovation ecosystem. This role is strengthened through its merger with Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI).

Committed to bringing high impact research from lab to market, ASTRI advances interdisciplinary, market driven R&D that delivers practical innovations for industry and meaningful benefits for society.

Its technological strengths and capabilities enable AI powered, cross disciplinary ICT and advanced materials solutions across Smart City, FinTech, Digital Health and Life Sciences, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Advanced Electronics, New Energy and Energy Storage, and Green and ESG Technologies.

Over the years, ASTRI has cultivated a strong pool of I&T talent and earned numerous international awards for its pioneering innovations and contributions to industry and the community. Following the merger with NAMI, ASTRI’s cumulative global patent portfolio has grown to over 1,500, with more than 2,200 technologies successfully transferred to industry.

With enhanced scale and capabilities, ASTRI is uniquely positioned to elevate Hong Kong’s innovation capacity, accelerate technology commercialisation, and drive societal and economic progress through world class applied research.

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