Student Brochure 2019

1 43 2 5 4 5 3 7 The invention of the da Vinci surgical robot helps surgeons perform minimally invasive procedures with smaller, fewer cuts and faster patient recoveries. One of the robotic system’s inventors, Prof. Samuel Au , is teaching at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering while pushing forward new robotic projects. Nanorobots are tinier than tiny— around 10,000 would fit on a human hair. Prof. Zhang Li engineers them to target illness in the brain and the digestive tract, allowing for easy treatment of parts of the body that are hard to reach. By targeting the medicine more efficiently, it’s also possible to lower the dosage of the drug used dramatically. The human eye has often been considered one of the most intricate, irreplicable biological models. That assumption ends at CUHK with the advent of an AI diagnostic system for automated medical image analysis, which is developed by the research team led by Prof. Heng Pheng-Ann of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering . A Strong Arm for the Surgeon Delivery of Drugs by Nanorobots An Eagle Eye for Smart Diagnosis Most people gesture when they talk, and babies communicate through gestures well before they use speech. But this is not the case with autistic children. Prof. Catherine So of the Department of Educational Psychology uses robots to train autistic children to recognize gestures, imitate the robots’ movements and finally use gestures in social situations. An expert in artificial intelligence as well as in speech and language technologies, Prof. Helen Meng of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management develops Cantonese intelligent speech systems for patients with strokes and cerebral palsy to facilitate their reintegration into society. Thumbs-up for Autistic Children Giving AI Mouths and Ears