Prof. Chai Yang awarded Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2026 for revolutionising AI computation

Prof. Chai Yang, Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty and Professor of the Department of Applied Physics, has been awarded the prestigious Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2026 in recognition of his outstanding achievements in revolutionising AI computation at the sensor level. Each recipient of the Senior Research Fellowship receives funding up to HK$3 million to support their research.

Prof. Chai’s research focuses on bioinspired computing and semiconductor devices. He has pioneered a disruptive in-sensor computing paradigm that revolutionises AI computation at the sensor level and has actualised this paradigm through hardware implementation for vision sensors. His innovative research on sensory AI contributes to the advancement in machine visions with enhanced image recognition, visual adaptation in extremely dim or bright lighting, and agile perception of dynamic motion.
 
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