International Symposium on STEM Education 2017

Agenda

In face of new technological implications on our social lives and interactions, on development of healthcare systems and on a variety of other research and development, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education has become a global trend. In this Summer, Academy for the Talented (hereby "Academy") will hold an International Symposium to focus on how technology continues to expand in every aspect of our lives.

The symposium will bring together 100 students from across the globe. Through this symposium, we aim to enhance students’ interests in technology learning, creativity, innovation, and their ability to integrate cross-disciplinary knowledge with the application of their skills.

Symposium Date: July 28 - 30, 2017

Rundown

Speakers

Mr Ambrose Wong

Regional Head of Risk, Commercial Banking and Global Banking & Markets, HSBC

Ambrose runs the regional risk function for HSBC wholesale businesses in Asia. He is an expert in enterprise risk management with over 15 years’ experience in the banking industry. Ambrose has worked in a variety of senior risk and capital management roles in Asia, Europe and Australia. Prior to joining HSBC, he has also worked in the consulting industry providing risk advices to some of the world's largest banks and corporates.

Mr Christopher Hugentobler

Head of Growth, Snapask

Snapask is a mobile platform for students across Asia to build up self-study motivation and habits. Christopher drives partnership opportunities with schools to bring self-directed learning to more students. Prior to Snapask, Christopher helped build an international youth abolitionist movement across Asia called 24 Hour Race. He continues to write websites in his spare time.

Mr Ivan Ho

Industry Manager, Google

As the Industry Manager of Government & Education at Google, Ivan carries 10 years of digital marketing experience with a natural passion in technologies and innovations that he uses as a foundation to drive digital transformation for his clients and partners. Ivan is experienced in both as a marketer and media sales. He believes having a consultative sales approach is the key to drive client’s success.

Professor John Kao

Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global), HKU

Professor W John Kao is the Vice-President & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global) and the Chair Professor of Translational Medical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. To help realise HKU’s 2015-2016 “Asia’s Global University” strategic vision of Internationalisation, Innovation, Interdisciplinarity converging on Impact, Professor Kao leads and strengthens the University’s global networks of collaboration, builds key relationships with relevant stakeholders in Mainland China and overseas, maximises opportunities across teaching and learning, research, knowledge exchanges and technology transfer, and deepens the University’s presence and engagement worldwide. Before joining HKU, he was Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Pharmacy, Surgery, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He also holds an adjunct professorship at Zhejiang University.

Dr Joseph Wu

Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU

Joseph Wu leads the infectious disease modeling research in the HKU School of Public Health. His primary research is in influenza epidemiology and control with a focus on pandemic preparedness and response. He earned his PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 2003 and BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 1999. His work primarily entails developing mathematical models to assess the potential benefits and resource requirement of mitigation and surveillance strategies for communicable diseases including influenza, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, HPV infection and yellow fever. Since 2013, he has been working closely with the China CDC on the risk assessment and management of avian influenza A/H7N9 epidemics and health economic evaluation of vaccination against hand-foot-and-mouth disease in China.

Dr LP Leung

Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU

Dr LP Leung received his specialist training in Emergency Medicine in Hong Kong and Australia. He is the clinical associate professor of the Emergency Medicine Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, the honorary consultant of the Accident and Emergency Department of Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong and the Editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine. One of his academic interests is prehospital medicine. He has had multiple publications on prehospital resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Dr Masato Kajimoto

Assistant Professor， Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU

Dr Masato Kajimoto is an Assistant Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, the University of Hong Kong. He specializes in news literacy education, multimedia storytelling and social media in journalism. He launched the Asia Pacific Digital Citizenship Project in 2013 as a way of institutionalizing an international collaboration to develop pedagogical methodologies and teaching materials in the field of news literacy that are suitable for the culture and media landscapes in different countries in Asia. He has led seminars and workshops on news literacy in many countries including Myanmar and Vietnam. Masato is the creator and the chief producer of two massive open online courses in this field: HKU04x Making Sense of News on edX and Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens on Coursera. As a professional journalist, before beginning a career in teaching and research, he worked as an online reporter and “Specials” editor (web producer) for CNN. He is also an Affiliate Professor at the Center for News Literacy, School of Journalism, Stony Brook University (State University of New York).

Dr Michael Pittman

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU

Dr Michael Pittman is a multi-disciplinary vertebrate palaeontologist from HK. He earned a BSc in geology from UCL in 2006 before progressing to an MSc in geoscience (palaeobiology) in 2007. He pursued a PhD on ‘the evolution and biomechanics of dinosaurian tails’ with Profs. Paul Upchurch and John R Hutchinson (Royal Veterinary College) completing in 2012. His primary interests are the evolution of theropod dinosaurs (including early birds), laser-based fossil imaging and the evolutionary biomechanics of vertebrates (especially dinosaurs). Dr. Pittman focuses on Chinese fossils that he studies with Prof. Xu Xing (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China) e.g. the bird-like dinosaurs Linheraptor and Jianianhualong.​

Mr Ray Chan

CEO and Co-founder, 9 Gag

Ray Chan is the co-founder and CEO of 9GAG, the leading content platform for millennials. Ray launched 9GAG in 2008 with his partners as an experimental project to share fun and viral content.9GAG is headquartered in Hong Kong, with a global audience of more than 150 million. 9GAG is the first company in Asia to join 500 Startups and Y Combinator, two top accelerators in Silicon Valley. In 2012, 9GAG received a seed funding of US$ 2.8 million. Ray graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a degree in Law. He lives happily with his wife and two dogs.

Professor Ricky Kwok

Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning), HKU

Professor Ricky Kwok is Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), assisting the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) in various projects related to e-learning (e.g., MOOCs, blended learning and gamification). Ricky is also Professor in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at HKU. A computer engineer and scientist by training, he is now taking an avid interest in scaling out teaching and scaling up learning. His recent research endeavors are also related to incentive, dependability, and security issues in wireless systems and P2P applications. Ricky is a Fellow of various professional associations in engineering (IEEE, IET, and HKIE).

Dr Vincent Lau

Director of Intelligent Cognitive Systems, Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited

Dr Vincent Lau is Director of Intelligent Cognitive Systems in ASTRI. He got Ph.D. from Department of Computer Science HKU around machine learning for font design. He has been working in the innovation technology industry for over 25 years, focusing on product creation and business development. He had worked in both local and multi-national companies for over 100 product development. In early 90s, he involved in the development of Chinese Windows at Seattle, then established several startups with one listed in HK Stock Exchange. He helps charity organisations, universities and companies to create impact for society through technologies.

Professor Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

Director of the Common Core

Prof. Gray Kochhar-Lindgren has been Director of the Common Core since June 2014. Prior to joining HKU, he served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning and the inaugural Director of the First Year and Pre-Major Programs at the University of Washington Bothell. With a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, Gray’s current scholarship focuses on cross-disciplinary learning in the global university and how philosophy, literature, social theory, and the arts intersect with urban space. He spent 2009-10 as a Fulbright Scholar in General Education, based at HKU, and assisted in the development of the HKU Common Core Curriculum.

Professor John Spinks

Senior Advisor to the President and Director of Undergraduate Admissions, HKU

Prof. John Spinks is currently Senior Advisor to the President at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), and Director of Undergraduate Admissions, with responsibilities for admission strategies and operations, as well as global student recruitment. He is also involved in developing collaborative academic programmes with leading universities around the world.  He was earlier the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Student Affairs) at HKU, and Executive Director for U21Global based out of Singapore. He works with governments, universities and schools throughout many Asian countries. As a professor in Psychology, he has run workshops and seminars across Asia, and given keynote speeches, on quality assurance in education, particularly in e-learning, as well as in strategic marketing.  His academic research has included work on educational prediction and assessment.  He is the recipient of an Honorary Fellowship from the Open University of Hong Kong.

Lewis Tam

Business Development Director (Hong Kong and Macau), Unity

Lewis Tam graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Mathematics major, Computer Science and Statistics as double minors. Lewis has been an experienced Business Development Professional for more than 25 years. He previously helped HTC Corp to develop and dominate smartphone market, and started exploring Virtual Reality ( HTC VIVE ) business opportunities during his 10 years of employment. After joining Unity Technologies in Feb 1, 2016, Lewis is now the Business Development Director, looking after Hong Kong and Macau SAR. Unity aims at democratizing game developers, helping developers solve hard problems and ensuring partners’ success. After work, Lewis is a regular golfer, a badminton player and a big fan of Michael Jordan, GOAT in basketball history.

Professor Ricky Kwok

Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning), HKU

Professor Ricky Kwok is Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), assisting the Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) in various projects related to e-learning (e.g., MOOCs, blended learning and gamification). Ricky is also Professor in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at HKU. A computer engineer and scientist by training, he is now taking an avid interest in scaling out teaching and scaling up learning. His recent research endeavors are also related to incentive, dependability, and security issues in wireless systems and P2P applications. Ricky is a Fellow of various professional associations in engineering (IEEE, IET, and HKIE).

Mr Billy Wong

TVB Pearl reporter

Billy Wong now produces a weekly English-language news documentary show, The Pearl Report, and enjoys covering politics, medical issues and heritage preservation issues. Before graduating with a journalism degree from The University of Hong Kong, he has interned and freelanced for Associated Press, Bloomberg TV and CCTV Beijing. 

Ms Melissa Leung

Edelman - Communications Marketing Firm

Melissa recently graduated from The University of Hong Kong with first honours in Journalism and Media Studies. She is currently working at Edelman, a global public relations firm, helping tech companies worldwide build their brand and make a bigger impact. She is a passionate story-teller and loves to read about Fintech development in Asia.

Venue

Main event venue: Rayson Huang Theatre

If you come from the HKU MTR station, simply take the lift at Exit A2 to FB (Foot Bridge) floor and follow the purple line (shown on the map below) to get to Rayson Huang Theatre.

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