ASTRI organises Smart Medical Forum in Fuzhou

  • ASTRI and Fujian Cross-straits Center for Technology Transfer jointly organised the 2016 Smart Medical Forum in Fuzhou on 19 Jun 2016 at Fuzhou National Technology Transfer Cross-straits Center Building.  The forum was co-organized by the Fujian Strait Technology Transfer Centre and International Technology Transfer Network (ITTN).

    7 experts from ASTRI, ITTN, Peking University, Chongqing University, China Electronic Technology Group Corporation Information Science Academy and Institute of China Unicom Co., Ltd. delivered keynote speeches and highlighted the R&D achievements at the Forum.  Party members of Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology and Mr. Jiansheng You, Deputy Director of the Fujian Provincial Department attended the Forum and gave welcoming remarks. The Forum attracted around 100 participants from Fujian Province enterprises,  high schools, R&D institutes as well as Municipal Science and Technology Bureau in the City.

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    Group photo with government officials and guest speakers.

    Mr. Jiansheng You, Deputy Director of the Fujian Provincial Department (1st row, 5th from right), Dr. Xiaohua Wu, Director of ASTRI (1st row, 4th from left) and Dr. John Tsang, Senior Technical Manager of ASTRI (1st row, 3rd from left)

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    Mr. Jiansheng You, Deputy Director of the Fujian Provincial Department gives welcoming remark.

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    Smart Medical Forum in Fuzhou

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    Dr. Xiaohua Wu gives a presentation on Medical Image Analysis Aided Diagnosis Technology.

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    Dr. John Tsang gives a presentation on Smart Healthcare Electronics.

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    Enterprises mingle with ASTRI’s Director Dr. Xiaohua Wu.

    Senior Management of Cyberport Visit ASTRI

  • Cyberport Chief Executive Officer Mr. Herman Lam and Chief Public Mission Officer Dr. Toa Charm visited ASTRI on 14 June 2016.  Dr. Frank Tong, Chief Executive Officer of ASTRI showed them the latest technologies at ASTRI Security Lab and Cyber Range Lab.

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    ASTRI Board Chairman speaks at the Wise Business Summit 2016

  • Mr. Wong Ming-yam, BBS, JP, Chairman of Board of Directors of ASTRI was invited as one of the speakers of the panel discussion session of “Global Economy and Business Trend” at the Wise Business Summit 2016 held on 7 June 2016 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

    In the discussion session, Mr. Wong talked about Hong Kong’s unique advantages in the development of innovation and technology and related businesses and offered valuable advice to corporate executives on grasping these advantages. Mr. Wong also shared his insights on the future development and application of innovation and technology in Hong Kong. At the Summit, ASTRI set up an exhibition booth to showcase its latest R&D development and technology projects.

    The Wise Business Summit 2016 was organized by the Hong Kong Economic Times, Hong Kong Productivity Council and HSBC with the objectives of providing local enterprises with professional expertise and market information to help them take advantage of the opportunities in the fast changing global economy. The theme of this year’s Summit was Innovation Paradigm, New Impetus and Opportunities which attracted over 500 participants.

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    Mr. Wong Ming-yam, BBS, JP, Chairman of ASTRI (2nd row, 4th from right) takes group photo together with the officiating guest Honourable John Tsang, GBM, JP, Financial Secretary, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1st row, 3rd from left) and representatives of the organizers and co-organziers.

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    Mr. Wong Ming-yam, BBS, JP, Chairman of ASTRI shares his insights at the panel discussion session of “Global Economy and Business Trend”.

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    ASTRI sets up an exhibition booth to showcase its latest R&D development and its latest technology projects.

    The 7th Management Committee Meeting of Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre (CNERC) for Application Specific Integrated Circuit System

  • The 7th Management Committee Meeting of Hong Kong Branch of Chinese National Engineering Research Centre (CNERC) for Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) System was held in Hong Kong on 17 June 2016. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Philip Chan, Chairman of the Management Committee and Deputy President and Provost of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  Participants of the meeting included Prof. Longxing Shi, Director of CNERC for ASIC System, Prof. Shengli Lu, Deputy Director of CNERC for ASIC System, Mr. Vincent Tang, Assistant Commissioner (Infrastructure and Quality Services) of the Innovation and Technology Commission, Ms. Alsa Choi, Senior Manager (Infrastructure) of the Innovation and Technology Commission, Dr. Davy Lo, Member of the Board of Directors of ASTRI, Mr. Chuck Cheng, CEO and President of AppoTech Ltd, Dr. Frank Tong, Chief Executive Officer of ASTRI, Dr. Meikei Ieong, Chief Technology Officer of ASTRI, Dr. Thomas Liu, Vice President, Intelligent Manufacturing of ASTRI, Mr. Bill Zhang, Director of IC Design Analog of ASTRI, Mr. YK Li, Director of IC Design Digital of ASTRI, and Dr. Daniel Shi, Director of Electronics Components of ASTRI.

    The Management Committee unanimously appointed Dr. Meikei Ieong as the new member of the Management Committee and confirmed the 6th meeting minutes. Members reported and summarized various achievements and R&D status for the past year, including ITF project fund, industry income, patent, standardization, and collaboration with Southeast University. The future R&D directions and technology roadmap were also presented and discussed in the meeting. The R&D areas will focus on wireless Internet of Things, video, storage, power semiconductor, and etc. Members also discussed the project and collaboration plans for the next year. At the end of the meeting, it was confirmed that the 8th Management Committee Meeting will be held in June 2017 in Nanjing, China.

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    Delegates from Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Visit ASTRI

  • Delegates from Securities and Futures Commission including Ms. Benedicte Nolens, Senior Director, Head of Risk and Strategy, Mr. Ron Chiong, Associate Director, Risk and Strategy, and Senior Managers, Risk and Strategy Mr. Rogers Chan and Ms. Sara Cheng visited ASTRI on 10 June.  Apart from engaging in fruitful discussion with the senior management of ASTRI, the delegates also toured around ASTRI Security Lab and Cyber Range Lab, and viewed a number of demonstrations of ASTRI’s technologies.

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    ASTRI Board Chairman Shares Insights on Reindustrialisation at Federation of Hong Kong Industries Forum

  • ASTRI Board Chairman Mr. Wong Ming-yam, BBS, JP spoke as a keynote speaker at the Industrialist Forum titled Reindustrialisation and Industry 4.0 organised by Federation of Hong Kong Industries and KPMG on 16 June 2016.  Mr. Wong shared his insights on the roles of  ASTRI in reindustrialization. Mr. Wong explained that if Hong Kong is keen on bearing a more important role in reindustrialisation and industry 4.0, the city should focus on the following 3 areas including:

    • Increased investment in R & D,
    • Cultivation of research talents, and
    • Development of Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies

    Mr. Wong shared with participants how ASTRI’s Innovative Runway Programme (AIR Programme) helps nurture young tech-entrepreneurs. He also discussed various industrial applications of ASTRI’s technologies including Random Bin Picking for Industrial Robot, Deep Learning Defect Inspection, Image / Video Tracking and Recognition and Human Motion Recognition, to name but a few.  He stressed that industry partners and ASTRI should work hand in hand to create an ecosystem that drives innovations, thus enabling a smarter world.

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    (7th from left) ASTRI Board Chairman Mr. Wong Ming-yam, BBS, JP takes a group photos with Mr. Nicholas Yang, JP, Secretary for Innovation and Technology (centre) and other guests at the forum.

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    Mr. Wong shares with audience his insights on the roles of Hong Kong and of ASTRI in reindustrialisation

    Senior Management from Bank of China Visit ASTRI

  • Senior management of Bank of China including General Manager Dr. Weimin Guo, Mr. Li Zheng and Mr. Duan Lin of E-finance Department visited ASTRI on 16 June 2016.  ASTRI’s CEO Dr. Frank Tong, CTO Dr. Ieong Meikei, and Director of Office of Chief Technology Officer Mr. Ryan Chung extended a warm welcome to the delegates and introduced to them ASTRI’s latest technologies including ASTRI Security Lab, Cyber Range Lab, Blockchain, facial recognition, HPE Data Analytics Lab, Naked Eye 3D Display Lab, AI on Chinese character recognition and behavioral authentication.

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    ASTRI and Huawei will co-host 3GPP RAN4 international standard meeting in Hong Kong, facilitating migration to 5G network and development of Smart City (28 – 30 June, 2016)

  • Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) and Huawei are pleased to join hands to co-host the international standard meeting of 3GPP RAN4 #79AH at Hong Kong Science Park from 28th to 30th June 2016. It is the first time for ASTRI to hold the 3GPP RAN4 meeting and it is the first time this meeting is held in Hong Kong in its history.

    The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a global collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations. The scope of 3GPP includes the development and maintenance of standards of Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced. The 3GPP specification work is done in Technical Specification Groups (TSGs) and Working Groups (WGs). Radio Access Network (RAN) Work Group (WG) 4 works on the radio frequency (RF) parameters and base station (BS) conformance, and derives the requirements for transmission and reception parameters, and for channel demodulation.

    The meeting aims at finalising the progress of Narrow Band IOT (NB-IOT) and defining other Work Items in LTE-Advanced timely. The key topics of this 3-day meeting will cover BS RF conformance testing, radio resource management (RRM) and demodulation performance for NB-IOT; user equipment (UE) RRM demodulation and channel state information (CSI) reporting for licensed-assisted access to unlicensed spectrum (LAA); and elevation beamforming/full-dimension multi-input multi-output (MIMO) for LTE UE demodulation in LTE-Advanced.

    Delegates from global telecommunications operators, equipment manufacturers, mobile terminals and chipset vendors including China Mobile, NTT DOCOMO, Vodafone, Huawei, ZTE, Ericsson, Nokia, China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT),  Intel, Qualcomm, HiSilicon, Samsung, MediaTek, Spreadtrum, LG Electronics, Sony and NEC, to name but a few, this meeting is expected to achieve important progress and extensive consensus on NB-IOT and LTE-Advanced standardisation, thereby contributing to migration to 5G and development of NB-IOT as well as Smart City.

    Host Partner Address at EmTech Hong Kong

  • Following is the host partner address by Mr. Wong Ming-yam, BBS, JP, Chairman of ASTRI at Day 1 of EmTech Hong Kong  held on 7 Jun.

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    Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen,

    It is a great pleasure for Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, or ASTRI, to be the host partner of MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Hong Kong Conference.

    This is the first time that this prestigious MIT event is staged in Hong Kong. However, Hong Kong is closer to MIT than many have imagined. There are some 4,000 MIT graduates from Hong Kong now working in key positions around the world.

    This morning, we have at least three distinguished MIT HK-alumni among us. Our Financial Secretary, the Honourable John Tsang, studied architecture at MIT. ASTRI’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Frank Tong, completed his PhD research at the MIT Lincoln Lab; and our Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Meikei Ieong, earned his MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He will soon talk about how we are to enable Hong Kong as a Smart City in a 5G environment.

    EmTech is a conference on emerging technologies that will change the way we live today. While innovators from around the world put their heads together in Hong Kong on the next generation of technological breakthroughs, we at ASTRI are very excited to take this opportunity to showcase our R&D competence, spanning from FinTech, Next Generation Network, Intelligent Manufacturing, Medical and Health to Smart City.

    ASTRI has a team of 400 engineers. We have produced a volume of home-grown technologies. Since Year 2000, we have applied for over 900 patents in China, the U.S. and other countries, and have been granted more than 500. So far, we have transferred more than 700 technologies to the industry, generating a total income of some HK$450 million.

    Hong Kong is a vibrant city by all standards. A few days ago, the Swiss IMD World Competitiveness Center named Hong Kong as the most competitive economy in the world, eclipsing Switzerland, the United States and Singapore. In terms of reach and development, however, we still have a lot of catching up to do.

    In 2014, Hong Kong’s R&D expenditure accounted for only 0.74% of GDP, while the figure for China as a whole was 2.05%; Singapore 2%; Japan 3.58%; and South Korea 4.29%.

    How about our northern neighbor – Shenzhen? Since 2013, Shenzhen has invested more than 4% of its GDP in R&D each year. By Year 2020, 4.25% of its GDP will be earmarked for R&D. Six emerging industries – biotechnology, the Internet, new energy, new materials, IT and cultural and creative industries – are expected to expand to account for 42% of the city’s GDP.

    Singapore is often branded as Hong Kong’s archrival. Her population is only 75% of that of ours. However, it has outshone Hong Kong in terms of infrastructure, R&D investment and talent cultivation. Under its latest five-year plan, the Singapore government has committed US$14 billion from 2016 to 2020 to research and to take the country to the next stage of development.

    Economies around the world are increasing R&D spending and gearing themselves up to develop technology-driven industries. Knowledge sharing aside, I hope this EmTech conference will also give our educators, researchers, entrepreneurs, and, especially, policy makers some food for thoughts.

    There is a lot more we need to do. We need to invest more in R&D. We need to attract more global technology talent. Most important of all, we need the right policy direction and the right environment where innovation-based industries and start-ups can flourish in the upcoming 5G communications environment.

    EmTech Hong Kong is a great platform for experts to converge and explore collaboration opportunities. I hope you would enjoy our city and get inspired by the bevy of speakers we have assembled. Thank you.

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    Media Coverage On ASTRI’s Cyber Security Projects

  • ASTRI’s cyber security projects were showcased on TVB’s Programme “Finance Magazine” on 5 June 2016.  To review the programme, please click here. Please start viewing from 10:49.