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Excel X Impact June2020.Pdf Excel x Impact 06/2020 Coming Together to COMBAT COVID-19 PolyU ranked 75th in the world Alumni series Big Data in a tiny package in latest league table Mr Alfred Sit, Secretary for Innovation and Technology Contents June 2020 09 17 39 President’s Message Welcome to Excel x Impact, our new quarterly publication that celebrates the spirit of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) – to pursue world-class excellence and make a positive impact on society. In this inaugural issue, readers will learn more Photo source: China National Space Administration about PolyU’s achievements in education, 03 31 43 research and knowledge transfer. At the time of publication, the world has been contending with the COVID-19 pandemic. For our part, the PolyU Cover Story Knowledge Transfer and PolyU Community community has been harnessing innovation Entrepreneurship 03 Coming together to combat COVID-19 Staff and expertise to fight the virus, while extending 25 Beating the heat for construction workers 33 Major external appointments and awards care to those in need. This is the kind of positive Dialogue 27 Educating entrepreneurs and supporting of PolyU members impact we should all be striving for. start-ups 33 Senior staff appointments and promotions 09 Unleashing the power of education I would like to thank our alumnus, Mr Alfred Sit, - A conversation with Council Chairman 35 Professor Li Ping, the newly-appointed Secretary for Innovation Spotlights Dean of Faculty of Humanities 11 Excellence and impact and Technology of HKSAR, who in this issue - Brain, language and happiness - A conversation with President 29 PolyU ranked 75th in the world in latest shares his vision for innovation as well as some league table 37 Professor Asif Usmani, memorable moments from his school days. 29 Campus expansion to meet allied health Head of Department of Building Education I also thank the Editorial Committee, in professionals’ training needs Services Engineering particular, Chairman Professor H. C. Man and 13 Learning and teaching during a time of 30 Largest share of Research Impact Fund - Ablaze with curiosity Co-chairman Professor Kaye Chon, for their social distancing two years in a row Alumni dedication and contributions to the launch of 39 Mr Alfred Sit, 30 Collaborative research in quantum this university-wide publication. Research and Innovation information optics published in Science Secretary for Innovation and Technology 17 Big Data in a tiny package 31 Scholars named Leader of the Year for – An innovative vision for Hong Kong This new publication could not have been 19 A different kind of fish story their contributions to China’s lunar 41 Mr David Lau, successfully launched without the hard work of Founder of Popway Hotel colleagues at the Communications and Public 21 PolyU researchers create radiation-free exploration - A model of ingenuity and entrepreneurship Affairs (CPA) Office. Many thanks to our CPA device to assess scoliosis 32 Lee Hysan Foundation partners with 43 New Board of Directors to take alumni team for their excellent effort! 23 Experts join hands to tackle environmental PolyU to tackle elder abuse associations forward and energy challenges 32 Hotel ICON recognised for training and I wish you an enjoyable read. Students 24 New Futian institute boosts PolyU’s impact service excellence Jin-Guang Teng in GBA 43 Kudos to PolyU’s outstanding students President 24 Joint laboratory to explore innovation in 45 Students translate AI technologies to autonomous vehicles industry solutions 45 Students win gold with education project on personal finance Cover Story PolyU partnered with the Hospital Authority to develop 3D-printed face shields for medical professionals. COVID-19 with only one test, in just one hour. With its patent-pending microfluidic and biochemical technologies, this system can provide ultra- sensitive detection while simultaneously differentiating various pathogens with extremely high specificity. P o ly “Early and accurate detection of pathogens U d e contributes to effective and efficient disease v el op control and management, and prevent s r eu sa spreading of any contagious pathogens,” said ble fac e sh Dr Terence Lau, Interim Associate Vice President ields f or both the public and healthcare service providers. (Innovation and Technology Development) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of PolyU. “It also benefits patients because timely therapy can then be applied to prevent complications.” Coming Together ince the start of COVID-19 at the end of 2019, tens of millions of people across the world have been infected and hundreds of thousands of fatalities reported. During this difficult period, the Sentire PolyU family of staff, students and alumni has banded together in the fight against this virus, in to COMBAT keeping with the University’s motto: “To learn and to apply, for the benefit of mankind.” We have been serving the community in combating the epidemic by making use of our professional expertise and creativity to design protective face shields for medical staff and the public. We COVID-19 also developed the world’s most comprehensive How PolyU harnessed innovation automated multiplex diagnostic system for scanning respiratory infectious diseases, including COVID-19. This automated multiplex diagnostic system can lumni join fron and the technical expertise of its land a tline fi Beyond this, our staff, students, alumni have been provide rapid detection of the COVID-19 virus. Main ghte rs in Wu researchers to fight a deadly new virus combining their resources to support those in need ha n. in the community. Some alumni even took part in frontline anti-epidemic work in Wuhan during the Capable of detecting up to 40 infectious respiratory first few months of the outbreak. Together, we have pathogens as well as the novel coronavirus, the been upholding the spirit of human kindness in a diagnostic system comprises a fully automated world tormented by this deadly disease. machine and multiplex full-screening panel for point-of-care genetic testing (POCT). No manual Breakthrough technology for early detection handling is required at any time during the Rapid early detection is critical for containing testing process. the spread of COVID-19. In early February of this year, our researchers developed an efficient, cost PolyU has many years of experience conducting effective diagnostic method — the rapid automated innovative research on virus detection. Together multiplex diagnostic system — that can identify with the University of Hong Kong, it established 4 Cover Story With support from local manufacturers, production Kong Christian Service to try them out. All users said lines began manufacturing up to 30,000 face shields the face shields provided a comfortable wearing per day in March so that the high demand for experience and were especially suitable for staff personal protective equipment among Hong Kong's working long hours. The feedback collected also frontline medical personnel could be met. helped to improve the design of the face shields. Better protection for the public Taking the measure of COVID-19 Members of the public, especially caregivers for the In order to gain a better understanding of COVID-19, elderly, social workers, cleaning staff and customer scientists from around the world have been working services staff, also needed protection to reduce non-stop to identify transmission patterns. the risk of virus transmission. To meet their needs, Professor Man and his team designed two reusable At PolyU three associate professors, Dr He Daihai face shields — the General Use Face Shield and Extra and Dr Lou Yijun from the Department of Applied Protection Face Shield. Mathematics (AMA) and Dr Yang Lin from the School of Nursing (SN), together with their students Dr Terence Lau (third left), together with (from fourth left) The General Use Face Shield fully covers the face and collaborators from Mainland China, began em st sy Professor Wong Wing-tak, Dean of the Faculty of Applied while the Extra Protection Face Shield also covers conducting a series of studies in the early stages ic Th st Science and Textiles, Professor Alexander Wai, Deputy e ra gno the forehead and hair. Made of lightweight, low- of the pandemic. The AMA and SN research team pid a x dia utomated multiple President and Provost, and Dr Manson Fok, Chairman of the Board of Avalon Biomedical Management Ltd. cost, environmentally-friendly PET (Polyethylene was among the first in the world to estimate the Terephthalate) plastic, the face shields were transmission rate, case fatality rate, and gender produced utilising the vacuum forming technique. disparity of COVID-19 cases. the Respiratory Virus Research Foundation in 2015 can be distinguished from other types of viral The new design resists fogging, provides a and has been working on a variety of innovative pneumonia and its severity level predicted in only comfortable wearing experience and allows the face In addition, Wang Yimin, an alumnus of PolyU’s technologies to tackle existing and emerging 20 seconds, with an accuracy of up to 90% or above. shields to be reused after cleaning. Master of Business Administration programme, respiratory infectious diseases. This research, This research was published in the prestigious sent his engineering team to Wuhan to set up new conducted over many years, is the reason why international journal, Cell. To test the new face shields, the Department of equipment — the Portable Digital Radiography (DR) PolyU was able to develop the diagnostic system Applied Social Sciences invited staff from the Hong system and Dynamic DR Tablet — developed by his for COVID-19 so quickly. Meeting the urgent demand for face shields company. With this equipment, medical staff are able When the COVID-19 outbreak hit Hong Kong at to make an early diagnosis of COVID-19 in patients The research team responsible for this system was the end of January, face shields were in critical and perform lung radiography imaging.
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