HKU Demo Day

06 Dec 2023

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