HKIE MIS Annual Conference and Gala Dinner 2025

Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Manufacturing, Industrial & Systems (MIS) Division organized Annual Conference and Gala Dinner on 11^th Apr 2025. The theme of MIS annual conference is “Empowering New Industrialization: The Future is Engineered!”. In the beginning, I met Dr. Augustine Chow (CityU EngD Society Advisor) and took a photo with Dr. YC Chau together. 

Then we met the MIS chairman and took a group photo.

(Left: Dr. John Chow, Dr. Eric Liu, Dr. YC Chau, Dr. Vincent Fung and I)

I also took a photo with Dr. Carman Lee and Dr. Sheron Sit. Congratulated Dr. Sheron Sit achieved PolyU EngD degree!

I met Dr. HL Yiu (my old boss in HKSTP) and Dr. Wong Yiu Man (Past Chairman, Logistics & Transportation Division, HKIE).

Very long time no see Dr. Daniel Lau who is guest speaker and we knew each other in CityU EPA centre.

Starting the conference, Ir Dr Eric Liu (Immediate Past Chairman of MIS, HKIE) gave a welcome speech. 

And then all guests and speakers took a group photo.

(Left: Dr. Vincent Fung, Ms. Anne Loos, Dr. Benny Drescher, Dr. Eric Liu, Mr. Tiejun Liu, Dr. John Chow and Prof. CY Tang)

The first speaker was Dr. Benny Drescher (CTO, HK Industrial AI and Robotic Centre; Director, Technology AI, INC Innovation Centre) and his topic entitled “Manufacturing GPT and AI Agents: Industry Benefits and Use Cases”. In the beginning, he stated AI for efficiency. 

Then he demonstration how GenAI (Google Gemini) identified and classified the defect in Textile. 

And then he introduced different type of AI and the last one is Generative AI using Large, General-purpose Language Models. Benny said the key different between traditional AI technologies and Generative AI is that GenAI has the ability to create new content.

After that Benny mentioned Manufacturing GPT using Large Multimodal Model (LMM) that can understand and generate content across various data types to support all facets of manufacturing. He also introduced Retrieval-Augmented Generation model to us.

Finally, he shared some observation before and after using GenAI in manufacturing processes.

Ms. Anne Loos (Executive Director, INC) was the second speaker and her topic named “The AI Maturity Journey”.

Firstly, she demonstrated her AI generated her speech in Chinese eventhough she doesn’t know Chinese.

After that she shared some lessons learned from different AI projects such as Data Quality & Governance and Ethical & Social Alignment.

Anne also demonstrated 4 phases to successful AI use case implementation from strategy level to AI use case level.

Lastly, she discussed AI Readiness Assessment for 0 level to 4 level.

After the first session finished, Dr. Vincent Fung chaired the forum for discussion.

Dr. HL Yiu also participated their discussion.

Then Dr. John Chow presented souvenirs to all speakers first.

The third speaker was Mr. Tiejun Liu (Director, Honeycomb Aerospace Technologies Co. Ltd.) and his presentation entitled “Digital low-altitude intelligent service system construction plan and practice” (數字低空智能服務體系建設方案與實踐).

Firstly, Mr. Liu briefed the development history of low-altitude economy policy.

And then he introduced the low- intelligent service system that included two platforms, one center and N applications. 

After that he mentioned the core facilities and technologies including Drones. ICT, etc.

Lastly, Mr. Liu demonstrated different application practices to us.

Dr. Daniel Lau was the last speaker and his presentation was “In Hong Kong for Global” Is HK Ready?. He firstly briefed Low Altitude Economy (LAE) that enabling by Big Multi-data driven, new digital twin, and different technologies.

Then he pointed out the three key concepts and they were P (Precision on Position), N (Beidou Compatible Navigation) and T (Synchronized Time “Sky-Ground”. 

Daniel said the major challenges of developing LAE in Hong Kong is ‘HK still chasing Mainland digital advanced roadmaps and seemingly far lagging behind. And then he proposed resilient PNT service.

After that he introduced Beidou Compatible Navigation application through the research and development centre.

Lastly, he concluded that full value chain & supply chain with using intelligent infrastructure of GNSS/BDS.

The discussion forum performed at the end. Since I had lecture on that night, I missed the annual dinner.

Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman, HKSQ) and Ms. Angela Wong (Vice chairman, HKSQ) joined the dinner and met our speakers.

HKSQ members took a group photo with Ir Raymond SHAN (MIS Chairman, HKIE) in front of annual dinner banner.

(Left: Dr. SL Mak, Ms. Angela Wong, Dr. Jane Wong, Ir. Raymond Shan, Dr. Aaron Tong, Dr. Vincent Fung and Dr. YC Chau.)

Dr. Jack Wu also joined and took a photo with Jane and Angela.

HKIE MIS committee took a group for memory.

HKSQ exco members took a photo with Aaron’s guests.

(Left: Mr. Jerry Tong, Dr. Aaron Tong, Dr. Pat Cheung, Dr. Jane Wong, Ms. Angela Wong, Dr. Jack Wu and Dr. Michael Hui)

Reference:

MIS - http://mi.hkie.org.hk/

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COMP3511/3512 Student Group Project Presentation for AI Ethics

My students who studied in COMP 3511 – Legal Aspects and Ethics of Computing and COMP 3512 – Legal Aspects, Professionalism and Ethics of Computing in the Department of Computing, PolyU presented their group project on 10^th Apr 2025. One of hot topics is "How to reduce the risk of AI-enabled Fraud and Deception in IT organization?" Last year, one of teams used USA AI tools to simulate Trump's speech for their topic introduction and this year one of teams used China AI tools to simulate my speech for their presentation. Thus, AI ethics become more and more important.

This year they used China AI tools named Tencent Yuanbao (騰訊混元).

Last year, I believed students using USA AI tools.

AI-enabled Fraud and Deception will become more prevalent that is why reducing its risks is a subject of student exercises.

Reference

COMP, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

BSc in Computer Science - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/study/ug-programmes/comp/subjects/

HKIE article: Revamping the computing ethics course for the age of AII - https://www.hkengineer.org.hk/issue/vol52-nov2024/feature_story/?id=18470

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20240411: ICAC Guest Talks for PolyU Students - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/04/icac-guest-talks-for-polyu-students.html

FCMS Launch Ceremony & Academic Forum on Future AI Computing

The Launch Ceremony of the newly established Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (FCMS) was held on 7^th Apr 2025. In the beginning, COMP teaching team took a photo in front of the banner for memory. 

(Left: Dr. Raymond Pang, Dr. Jeff Tang, Dr. Kevin Yuen, Prof. Andy Chun and I)

I met Prof. Li Qing (Dept Head of COMP) and Prof. KF Wong (CUHK) and took a photo together.

I also met Prof. Witman Hung. I knew him a long time ago in the Science Park when we supported Dr. Samson Tam for Legislative Council election.

Took a photo with my colleague Prof. Hongxia Yang. We both come from industry, but she is proficient in large language models, and I come from a semiconductor testing laboratory in Science Park.

Dr. Leong Hong-Va and Dr. Mohamed Aquil Mirza were also here.

Afterwards, I took a group photo with Prof. Kay Chen Tan, Prof. Sam Kwong, and Prof. Andy Chun, all of whom had served in CityU.

In the beginning of the launch ceremony, Prof. Sun Dong (Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry) gave an opening remark. He congratulates for the new faculty establishment and expected us to lead AI innovation and technology.

Then Prof. Jin-Guang TENG (President, PolyU) gave welcome speech to all guests, students and colleagues. 

And then Prof. Chang-Wen CHEN (Interim Dean, FCMS) gave speech to introduce FCMS that we had first AIDA second major in the world with outstanding academic leaders in PolyU Academy of Artificial Intelligence (PAAI). 

FCMS had three departments and they are Applied Mathematics, Computing and Data Science & AI. 

FCMS is unique in offering a second major in AIDA for a new generation of students with strong AIDA skills. Combined with computing and mathematical skills, it provides a strong foundation for advances in artificial intelligence.

Finally, Prof. Chen shared FCMS vision and mission.

The Ceremony started.

All the guests took a group photo and raised their glasses to toast.

We enjoyed the tea break before the forum.

I together with Prof. Henry Chan and Dr. Leong Hong-Va to take photo with Prof. KF Wong (CUHK) for memory. Dr Leong and Prof. KF Wong have known each other for a long time.

After that the Academic Forum on Future AI Computing started, the guests included Prof. Yi Ma (HKU), Dr. Tao Mei (HiDream.ai), Prof. Xin Yau (LingnanU) and Prof. Hongxia Yang (PolyU).

Prof. Chang-Wen CHEN chaired the forum and reviewed four topics for discussion.

The first topic is sustainable AI computing for the future.

The second topic is general intelligence issues.

The third topics is synthetic data issues.

The last topics is AI for medicine and healthcare issues.

Q&A

Reference

FCMS, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/fcms/

COMP, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/