Past Events

President of Westlake University, Prof. SHI Yigong delivers the PAIR Distinguished Lecture

President Shi began the lecture by providing a brief historical background about China’s education reform in the 1970s—millions of Chinese students enjoyed the new opportunities for overseas education brought by China’s reform and opening up, and students returned home with the knowledge that significantly impacted China’s development in education, science, and technology.

PAIR-PReCIT Forum Integrating InT into GBA and the National System

PolyU successfully held the “Forum on Integrating I&T into GBA and the National System cum Launch Ceremony of the Policy Research Centre for Innovation and Technology (PReCIT)” on 24 November 2022. About 300 staff, students, alums, guests, and leaders from I&T, finance, and academia attended this grand occasion and exchanged views on how Hong Kong can proactively integrate into the Nation’s development plan.

20221130 RILS Public Lecture Land Analytics and Management

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PAIR participated in the USR Summit Education and Action for a Sustainable Future

With unprecedented challenges threatening the world, interdisciplinary research has the strength to tackle issues that cannot be solved with traditional discipline-specific research. An interdisciplinary research hub established by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University showcased a number of impactful collaborative research addressing issues relating to climate change, energy shortage, ageing population and the recent pandemic in an international summit.

PAIR co-organises Distinguished Lecture with Faculty of Humanities

PAIR co-organised a Joint Distinguished Lecture titled “AI, Consciousness and Ethics: Towards a Principled and Empathic AI” with the Faculty of Humanities on 18 October 2022, with 200 online audiences attended

5th RISUD TOAF Distinguished Lecture - Blue Map for Zero Carbon

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The 95th Research Salon on Textiles for Future Fashion

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The third lecture of the PAIR Distinguished Lecture Series was successfully held on 6 September 2022

We were honoured to have invited renowned scientist, Prof. Li Deren, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Member of the International Eurasia Academy of Sciences, and Professor of State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), to be the distinguished speaker.

International Conference on Intelligent Wearable Systems 2022 held successfully

International Conference on Intelligent Wearable Systems 2022 (ICIWS 2022), a three-day conference, was successfully completed on Jun 29, 2022. The conference was organized by the Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems (RI-IWEAR) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).

PAIR Successfully Hosts Its Second Distinguished Lecture Series by Professor David Cardwell of University of Cambridge

The PAIR Distinguished Lecture Series was successfully held on 17 May 2022. We were honoured to have renowned scholar, Prof. David Cardwell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Strategy and Planning), University of Cambridge, UK, as the invited speaker. The webinar was hosted by Prof. Christopher Chao, Vice President (Research and Innovation) and Chair Professor of Thermal and Environmental Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). It attracted over 430 participants from 30 countries and regions. Honourable participants include: