Donor
PolyU Technology and Consultancy Company Limited
Founded in 1996, PolyU Technology and Consultancy Company Limited (PTeC) is the strategic professional service arm of PolyU. PTeC provides one-stop consultancy and knowledge transfer services to the private sector, government institutions and non-profit making organisations. By partnering with PTeC or soliciting its consultancy services, industries can leverage on PolyU's rich knowledge base for business success and sustainability.
PTeC taps into the vast expertise of 1,200+ dedicated and talented academic staff members across 29 disciplines at PolyU, to offer first-class professional consultancy services that facilitate higher productivity and global competitiveness among enterprises. PolyU’s state-of-the-art equipment and resources are also instrumental for companies to harness success.
To demonstrate PTeC’s professionalism and its commitment to service quality, PTeC has developed and implemented a quality management system that earned PTeC the accreditation of ISO9001 in January 2005. It marks PTeC as the first university consultancy arm in Hong Kong to receive such accreditation and further reinforces its position as a top-notch consultancy service provider.
Limin Endowed Young Scholar positions were established with donations from PTeC. The Chinese characters “Limin” (利民), literally “to benefit the people”, are taken from PolyU’s motto “To learn and to apply, for the benefit of mankind 開物成務 勵學利民”. The naming thus reflects the objective to benefit society through knowledge transfer.
Appointee
Dr Hsu Li-Ta
Dr Hsu Li-Ta, Associate Professor in Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering at PolyU, earned his BSc and PhD degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 2007 and 2013 respectively. Winning a Student Paper Award from the Institute of Navigation (ION) in the U.S., he showed promising potential as a scholar early on. Once a visiting scholar at the University College London, and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology; a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; a technical representative and a council member of ION; and currently an associate fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Institute of Navigation, Dr Hsu garnered over ten years of R&D experience in the discipline of aerospace navigation. Since he joined PolyU in 2016, Dr Hsu has undertaken numerous collaborative R&D projects on three-dimensional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning for smartphones and intelligent vehicles, especially useful in highly urbanised cities such as Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. Dr Hsu has keen research interest in everything related to GNSS positioning and signal processing, including GNSS real-time kinematic positioning and ways to improve GNSS performance under challenging reception conditions. He also charts new territory in indoor positioning using different signals of opportunity, visual positioning system and LiDAR based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). His contributions to the localisation and navigation of unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) for drones and unmanned vehicles in smart cities while integrating multiple sensors are also eminent.
