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Prof. CHAI Yang receives Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2026 for revolutionising AI computation

9 Dec 2025

Awards & Recognitions

Prof. CHAI Yang, Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Science and Chair Professor of Semiconductor Physics, has been awarded the prestigious Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2026 in recognition of his outstanding achievements in revolutionising artificial intelligence (AI) computation at the sensor level.  Each recipient of the Senior Research Fellowship receives up to HK$3 million in funding 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 vision with enhanced image recognition, visual adaptation in extremely dim or bright lighting, and agile perception of dynamic motion.

Prof. Chai is currently Management Committee Member of the Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems (RI-IWEAR), Member of the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things (RIAIoT) and the Photonics Research Institute (PRI).

Press release: https://polyu.me/3MoIA0Y

 

Online coverage:

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Hong Kong Economic Times - https://polyu.me/3XJs6D6

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Research Units Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems | Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things | Photonics Research Institute

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