Past Events

Prof. David PUI of University of Minnesota delivers lecture on “Green Technologies Development for Sustainable Environment”

Prof. David Y. H. PUI, Regents Professor and LM Fingerson/TSI Inc. Chair in Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA, delivered the 29th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Green Technologies Development for Sustainable Environment” on 13 September 2024 at PolyU. The lecture attracted nearly 100 participants to join in person and captivated an online viewing audience of over 11,200 from different countries and regions to watch the live broadcast on multiple social media platforms, including Bilibili, WeChat, Weibo, YouTube, etc.

PAIR Distinguished Lecture: Professor HUANG Yonggang, Northwestern University delivers 'Shape Programmable Three-dimensional Mesostructures and Functional Devices'

Prof. HUANG Yonggang, Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University in the United States, delivered the 28th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Shape Programmable Three-Dimensional Mesostructures and Functional Devices” on 8 August 2024 at PolyU. The lecture attracted more than 100 participants to join in person and captivated an online viewing audience of over 15,500 from different countries and regions to watch the live broadcast on multiple social media platforms, including Bilibili, WeChat, Weibo, YouTube, etc.

PolyU co-organises Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Conference 2024 (µFIP 2024)

The Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Conference 2024 (µFIP 2024) was successfully held at PolyU from 21 to 24 June. The conference brought together academic, research and industry communities coming from fields of thermodynamics, fluidics, bio-chemical and bio-medical engineering, and microfluidics, for interdisciplinary exchange with a focus on energy applications involving microchannel flow or microscale surface phenomena.

“Father of Asian EV” delivers distinguished lecture on energy revolution and automotive revolution

Ir Prof. CHAN Ching-chuen, SBS, Distinguished Chair Professor of Electric Vehicles and Smart Energy and Director of the Research Centre for Electric Vehicles of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) delivered the 20th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “New Journey of Energy Revolution and Automotive Revolution” on 6 May 2024.

Prof. Alex MIHAILIDIS of UToronto delivers a lecture on integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into elder care services

Prof. Alex MIHAILIDIS, Associate Vice President of International Partnerships at the University of Toronto delivered the 19th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “The Future of Elder Care: Integrating Large Language Models” on 26 April 2024. The lecture attracted about 100 participants to join in person and captivated an online viewing audience of over 14,100 from different countries and regions to watch the live broadcast on multiple social media platforms, including Bilibili, WeChat, Weibo, YouTube, etc.

Prof. CUI Zhanfeng of Oxford delivers lecture on biomedical engineering

Prof. CUI Zhanfeng, Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Oxford and Founding Director of Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research, delivered the 18th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Crosswalk between Engineering, Biology and Medicine” on 23 April 2024. The lecture attracted about 100 participants to join in person and captivated an online viewing audience of over 11,200 from different countries and regions to watch the live broadcast on multiple social media platforms, including YouTube, Weibo, Bilibili, etc.

Prof. LIN Jianguo of Imperial College London delivers distinguished lecture on hot stamping techniques

Prof. LIN Jianguo, Head and Professor in Mechanics of Materials Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, delivered the 17th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “How to get high quality experimental data for hot stamping?” on 9 April 2024. The hybrid lecture attracted over 150 participants joining in person and online from more than ten countries and regions across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. It was also broadcast live on multiple social media platforms, including YouTube, Weibo, Bilibili, etc., captivating an online viewing audience of over 12,400.

Geomatics expert Prof. CHEN Jun delivers a distinguished lecture on spatial-temporal information for sustainable development

Prof. CHEN Jun, Chief Scientist at the National Geomatics Center of China and Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered the 16th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Spatial-temporal Information for High Quality Sustainable Development” on 27 March 2024. The hybrid lecture attracted over 200 participants joining in person and online from more than 20 countries and regions across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. It was also broadcast live on multiple social media platforms, captivating an online viewing audience of over 10,700.

Gut microbiome expert Prof. Eugene B. CHANG delivers PAIR Distinguished Lecture

In his presentation, Prof. Chang first gave some fun facts about the human gut microbiome and explained that it is a vital organ of the body. Next, he elaborated on the importance of understanding a healthy gut microbiome and keeping it healthy. Prof. Chang stated that it is comparatively easy to determine the health of a vital organ through different tests but not the gut microbiome.

Prof. Ioannis BRILAKIS of Cambridge University delivers PAIR Distinguished Lecture on digital twinning in built environment

Prof. Ioannis BRILAKIS of the University of Cambridge delivered the 14th PAIR Distinguished Lecture titled “Digital Twinning the Built Environment” on 8 March 2024. The hybrid lecture attracted over 370 participants joining in person and online from more than 40 countries and regions across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. It was also broadcast live on multiple social media platforms, captivating online viewing audience of over 13,100.