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HKU Students Win Awards in the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
HKU students won twenty awards at the 7th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in May 2021. Research postgraduate (RPg) students received two Second Prizes and five Third Prizes under the ‘Innovation’ category, and one Merit Prize in the ‘Entrepreneurship’ category.
The competition is organised by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association for academic exchanges and innovation and entrepreneurship talents from the tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. Winning teams may represent Hong Kong at national competitions including the ‘Challenge Cup’ National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest and the China College Students’ ‘Internet +’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
Congratulations go to the following winners:
Innovation
Category: Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
| Award | Name of Project | Project Team Member(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Second Prize | Tissue-like liquid robots programmed by phase separation enabled all-aqueous printing | Shipei Zhu Yage Zhang (PhD students, Department of Mechanical Engineering) |
| Second Prize | Single-shot, synthetic polarization digital holographic microscope for under water microplastic detection | Yanmin Zhu (PhD student, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering) |
| Third Prize | Durable paper fuel cells with instant refueling ability | Shijing Luo, Kee Wah Leong, Xiaolong Zhao (PhD students, Department of Mechanical Engineering) |
| Third Prize | Model predictive control based voltage and frequency regulation in microgrids | Yau Chung Cheng (PhD student, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering) |
| Third Prize | Reusable nanofibrous membrane filters for environmental applications | Shenghua Zhou Li Long (PhD students, Department of Civil Engineering) Junwei Zhang (BEng(CivE) student) Yan Tung Lo (BEng(CivE)/BBA student) |
Category: Life Sciences
| Award | Name of Project | Project Team Member(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Third Prize | Graphene liquid marbles accelerate osteogenic maturation of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell spheroids | Yage Zhang (PhD student, Department of Mechanical Engineering) |
| Third Prize | Bioengineered hair follicle model for hair follicle regeneration and high- throughput drug screening | Wanjing Ou (PhD student, Department of Mechanical Engineering) |
Entrepreneurship
Group: Entrepreneurship Proposal
| Award | Name of Project | Project Team Member(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Merit Award | Genetic testing-based intelligent health data management | Guolan Chen Justin Tubbs (PhD students, Department of Psychiatry) Zixuan Li (BBA(Acc&Fin) student) Chun Wang Kwan (BBA(Acc&Fin) student) |