Lingnan University wins a record-breaking number of 5 awards at the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva.

Lingnan University wins a record-breaking number of 5 awards at the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva.

Lingnan University has achieved a historic milestone at the 50th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, winning a record-breaking number of five awards. A total of six groundbreaking inventions from Lingnan were showcased at the exhibition, earning one Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury―the first time the University has achieved this honour―along with two Silver Medals and two Bronze Medals, making the number of Lingnan University's participating and winning projects a record high.

 

For the first time, Lingnan presented multiple inventions from various faculties and departments, showcasing its collaborative spirit and ingenuity. The six groundbreaking inventions exhibited in the exhibition covered areas such as intelligent transport, digital security, carbon neutral technology and humanitarian technology, which fully demonstrated Lingnan's strength in innovation and scientific research and its contribution to the community.

 

“BLOOM - A Low-cost, Energy-efficient Baby Incubator Designed for Remote and Rural Communities in Developing Countries”, which was developed by a team led by Prof Albert Ko, Director of Service-Learning and Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative (LEI), has been awarded the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury.
 

“BLOOM - A Low-cost, Energy-efficient Baby Incubator Designed for Remote and Rural Communities in Developing Countries” wins a Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury.

“BLOOM - A Low-cost, Energy-efficient Baby Incubator Designed for Remote and Rural Communities in Developing Countries” wins a Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury.

Silver Award-winning projects include “A Multi-time-scale Model for Day-ahead Forecasting of Passenger Travel-time and Destinations Distribution” led by President S. Joe Qin; and “Direct Air Capture Robot (DACR) System Based on Mobile Automatic Cruise Tracking Coupled with Solar Photovoltaic Power Generation and Waste Heat Recovery System” led by Prof Li Jia, Associate Professor of School of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Bronze Award-winning projects include “Decentralised Authentication of Anti-Counterfeiting QR Codes Using Vision Transformer-Based Federated Learning” led by Prof Prof Sam Kwong Tak-wu, Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research), Acting Dean of the School of Data Science, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence; and “EmergentSync: An Intelligent Traffic Light System with Emergency Response” led by Prof Pan Fei, Assistant Professor of School of Interdisciplinary Studies.