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Nelson Chu, BEng(CPEG), MPhil(COMP), PhD(COMP) - Founder of Expresii
With a strong interest in Eastern ink painting and calligraphy, Nelson’s success in combining his passion with technical know-how in Computer Graphics is evident. He now works on Expresii, an advanced digital painting system currently focusing on Eastern ink painting and calligraphy. In doing so, he wishes to revitalize and further develop the ancient art forms in the modern age.
Nelson's journey in digital art started when he was a teenager. Paint systems at that time could not meet the needs for organic strokes – the brushes were often a blob or some pixel-sized strings. Nelson started working on brush simulation at HKUST in 1999 and since then has been making several milestones. In 2005, he presented a paper on MoXi (a predecessor of Expresii) at SIGGRAPH, the world’s most influential conference in Computer Graphics, and wowed the professionals. Adobe Systems Inc immediately reached out and licensed MoXi in 2006. In 2008, he joined Microsoft in Seattle developing another breakthrough app that simulates Western paint media before coming back to Asia in 2011. He started building Expresii in 2012 and in 2017, Expresii became an app partner of Microsoft Surface.
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Cathy Jim, BSc(CHEM), PhD(CHEM) - Director of RHT Industries Limited
During her student days, Cathy discovered that HKUST had developed an environmentally-friendly air purification technology called Nano Confined Catalytic Oxidation (NCCO) which turns pollutants into water and carbon dioxide. She felt that such a useful technology should be more widely-known and commercialized, and in 2011, joined RHT Industries, a start-up that was working on commercializing NCCO. It was a difficult transition from academia to the commercial world – one of the biggest hurdles that Cathy and her team faced was the long and arduous process of applying for a patent. Cathy also had to spend long hours in foul-smelling environments such as public washrooms, pipe rooms, garbage stations and livestock farms in order to conduct field tests and tailor NCCO filters to target specific pollutants.
With her academic background, however, Cathy was able to not only help to explain the technology to customers, but could also provide professional advice to the company and stakeholders who came from a business background. Her hard work paid off, and RHT's air purification technology is now in use at landfill data collection centers, public restrooms in MTR stations and shopping malls, and hospital pathology wards. In 2016, RHT began selling its air purifiers in Pricerite, one Hong Kong's leading household items retailers.
Going forward, the RHT team is looking to partner with automobile manufacturers in China to incorporate the NCCO technology into their vehicles to reduce emissions. The team is also looking into addressing the smog problem in China by reducing the air pollution caused by offices and factories.
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Kevin Wong, MBA – CEO and Co-Founder of Origami Group Limited
Kevin Wong is the Co-Founder and CEO of Origami Labs, a wearable device company that's building the world's first wireless audio device worn on the hand. He leads the team's innovation, investor outreach, coffee consumption, and R&D/tinkering efforts. Kevin was the General Manager of Kowloon Watch Company, a luxury watch retailer and manufacturer. He directed the online and retail store profit centers, business development planning, procurement, operations, marketing/PR, and HR functions, with full ownership of P/L. Kevin has a B.A. from NYU in Political Science and East Asian Studies and earned his MBA from HKUST. |
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Please register here by October 2, 2017 (Monday) |
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Please contact Ms. Jerri Ng at jerri@ust.hk |
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