Lingnan wins 16 awards at Silicon Valley International Invention Festival 2026 - tops Hong Kong universities for total and gold medals

Lingnan University’s research teams have achieved exceptional success at the Silicon Valley International Invention Festival 2026, with all 14 of their projects winning awards, including eight gold medals and six silver medals. One of the projects, the “GaitGPT: Evidence-Grounded AI for Bidirectional Clinical Gait Translation”, developed by a team led by Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science, and Prof Yu Lisha, Assistant Professor of Teaching of the Division of Artificial Intelligence of the School of Data Science, also received the IFIA Best Invention Award issued by the International Federation of Inventors' Associations and the "Thailand Award for the Best International Invention and Innovation" issued by the National Research Council of Thailand. With a total of 16 awards, this marks the second consecutive year that Lingnan has become the Hong Kong SAR higher education institution with the greatest number of awards and gold medals at this international innovation event.

Winning projects include:

Gold Medal, IFIA Best Invention Award, and Thailand Award for the Best International Invention and Innovation:

• “GaitGPT: Evidence-Grounded AI for Bidirectional Clinical Gait Translation”, developed by a team led by Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science, and Prof Yu Lisha, Assistant Professor of Teaching of the Division of Artificial Intelligence of the School of Data Science

Gold Medals:

• “Face Fortress: Adaptive All-In-One AI for Digital ID Safety”, developed by a team led by Prof Sam Kwong Tak-wu, Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research)

• “Water-Retentive Hydrogel Smart Windows: Cooling Without Power”, developed by a team led by Prof Chen Xi, Dean of the Wu Jieh Yee School of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Prof Ke Yujie, Assistant Professor of the Wu Jieh Yee School of Interdisciplinary Studies

• “PCG.ME: Infinite Game Co-Creation Platform with Behaviour-Adaptive AI”, developed by a team led by Prof Liu Jialin, Associate Professor of the Division of Industrial Data Science of the School of Data Science

• “FlexiBot: Make Every Parking Spot a Charging Spot”, developed by a team led by Prof Tang Xiaopeng, Assistant Professor (Presidential Early Career Scholar) of the Division of Science

• “MedCenterDet: AI System for Accurate Lesion Detection in 3D Medical Images”, developed by a team led by Prof Pan Fei, Assistant Professor of the Wu Jieh Yee School of Interdisciplinary Studies

• “StorySketcher: A Multi-Agent AI System for Child-Led Co-Creative Storytelling”, developed by Prof Xu Xian, Assistant Professor of the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries

• “IDEAL-Gen.AI - Instructional Design Enhanced Active Learning through Generative Artificial Intelligence”, developed by Dr Ronnie H. Shroff, Principal Project Fellow of the Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning

Silver Medals:

• “GeoAI Mosquito Risk Prediction Platform — Kill, Monitor, Identify & Forecast”, developed by a team led by Prof Paulina Wong Pui-yun, Head and Associate Professor (Presidential Early Career Scholar) of the Division of Science

• “Generative AI Assessment System (GAAS): A Game-Changer for Timely Student Feedback”, developed by Prof Frankie Lam King-sun, Director of the Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning

• “BuildGuard: Blockchain Oracle AI for Instant Secure Compliance in Offsite Manufacturing”, developed by Prof Mike Wu, Assistant Professor of the Division of Industrial Data Science of the School of Data Science

• “IDShield: A Privacy Firewall Against Behavioural Re-identification in AI Dialogues”, developed by a team led by Prof Shen Jiaxing, Assistant Professor of the Division of Artificial Intelligence of the School of Data Science

• “TokenSaver: Context-Aware Semantic-Structured Document Retrieval System via Visual Memory”, developed by a team led by Prof Li Zongxi, Assistant Professor of the Division of Artificial Intelligence of the School of Data Science

• “TransLab: AI‑powered Translation Learning and Evaluation Suite”, developed by Prof George Chan Chi-yu, Assistant Professor of Practice of the Department of Translation