Biomedical Engineering
This project designs anti-cancer peptides that inhibit PDEd, a chaperone regulating KRAS signaling. Using the PDEd crystal structure (PDB: 4JV6), RFdiffusion generated peptide backbones, Pro…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of irreversible blindness, characterized by progressive optic nerve damage often without symptoms until significant vision loss occurs.…
Physics and Astronomy
Phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a viable alternative for thermal management and thermal energy storage due to their capacity to store substantial latent heat. This study investigates pre…
Chemistry
In this project, uniform Sized SPIONs of various sizes were synthesized in a reverse micelles system under aerial conditions. The variation in size was achieved by varying the loading of iro…
Biomedical Engineering
This project involved designing and testing a lower-limb exoskeleton integrated with a brain-computer interface (BCI). Its objective was to address the physiological, psychological, and soci…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study presents a novel approach to fabricate dual-functional catalysts with 3D hierarchical nanoarray structures for efficient urea-oxidation reaction and hydrogen evolution reaction in…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study describes a novel species of snail in the genus Japonia (subfamily Cyclophoridae, family Cyclophoridae) discovered in Hong Kong. This species is distinguished by unique long, spoo…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes 20.5 million deaths annually and imposes significant economic burdens due to rising healthcare costs. While pharmacological treatments and surgeries are t…
Embedded Systems
This study presents a spherical robot driven by a double-pendulum mechanism that shifts its center of gravity for omnidirectional movement. A robust 3D-printed shell and internal actuation s…
Materials Science
The plastic pollution problem worldwide has worsened due to the use of non-biodegradable tablewares in takeaways during the pandemic. Public hygiene concerns have also arisen. Eateries provi…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Throughout the past decades, traffic jams during rush hour and other peak times of the day have been a significant issue, causing a considerable amount of financial losses and time costs. Ad…
Chemistry
Our project aims to upcycle waste sugarcane bagasse which will be used to synthesize nanocellulose, investigating the effectiveness of nanocellulose, bagasse powder and unrefined sugarcane b…
Translational Medical Science
First Award
Every 3 seconds, someone in the world develops Dementia. By 2050, over 139 million people worldwide will be living with Dementia. Early interventions are crucial in preventing and treating D…
Materials Science
Formaldehyde is an air-borne, carcinogenic indoor pollutant. Shells of hermetia illucens, Black Soldier Flies (BSF) are leftovers when the insects mature from pupae to adults. BSF shells are…
Biomedical Engineering
Cerebral palsy, the most common motor disability in childhood, causes mobility issues, leading to gait abnormalities. The spectrum of these abnormalities includes having stiff or flaccid mus…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
The diving behavior of the Macaca mulatta is a rare phenomenon that only a few scientific researchers have studied on. Previous studies have only regarded the diving behavior of the Macaca m…
Embedded Systems
With the rising popularity of skateboarding from large international events such as the Olympics, Street League Skateboarding and X Games, reliable and accurate trick detection gets increasi…
Biomedical Engineering
Musculoskeletal injuries are occurring more and more frequently, with one of the main causes being the increasing number of new patients who sustain knee structure injuries. Currently, exosk…
Mathematics
Thue and Alon has laid the foundation of non-repetitive vertex colorings for certain graphs, discovering and proving many of its theorems. In this paper we explore the problem of how many co…
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose Asthma is a disorder that causes the trachea to shorten. During asthma attacks, it causes breathing difficulties, coughing, and even death. Asthma attacks are normally triggered by s…
Biomedical Engineering
Over the past several decades, excessive antibiotic use has led to the rapid development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The decreasing effectiveness of antibiotics in managing chronic wou…
Biomedical Engineering
Nowadays, stroke is a common chronic disease globally with a surging number of sufferers. Over 1 in 4 adults suffered from stroke in their lifetime, It's seriousness leads to a massive numbe…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Font design and generation in both western and eastern calligraphy has always been a skilled artwork. In this research, Artificial Intelligence was used to generation new writing fonts acros…
Mathematics
The goal of this project is to do fundamental research on Gray codes and develop a new algorithm to determine a Gray code given its corresponding decimal number. A Gray code sequence is a se…
Environmental Engineering
Fourth Award
The problem of heavy metal pollution has escalated to that of a serious social-environmental crisis. Calcium alginate, a natural polymer in brown algae, was investigated regarding its absorp…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
COVID-19 has caused world-wide disturbances and the deep learning community has been finding ways to combat the disease. Applications of neural networks in image processing tasks allow COVID…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Our group studied the anti-cancer properties of white grape on inhibiting cell proliferation of human leukemia HL-60 cells, and if any synergy, with green tea. Results showed that white grap…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Second Award
Microswimmers are microscopic-scale machines that are designed to perform and undergo specific movement in response to external stimuli. In this project, a magnetically-powered multi-segment…
Mathematics
A Gray Code sequence is a set of 2^n binary numbers in which only one bit changes between two consecutive elements and this property helps in reducing errors in data transmission in hardware…
Microbiology
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterium that causes serious infections in immunocompromised patients, such as those who have severe wounds or cystic fibrosis. Although many anti…