Dr Ieong Meikei & Dr Yu Tao Invited To Give A Talk

To celebrate the 17th Anniversary of Macau University of Science and Technology, the Faculty of Information Technology and Macau Institute of Smart City held a seminar of “From Smart City to Smart Traffic” at Block B, Room 102 on Mar 20th,2017. Dr Ieong Meikei and Dr Yu Tao were the invited speakers from Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute. Dr Ieong’s talk was on “The Making of a Smart City with ASTRI Technologies” andDr. Yu spoke on “Big Data Analytics for Smart City – Hong Kong Smart Traffic”. Around 80 students and faculty members attended the seminar, including the Vice Rector Pang Su-Seng and the Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology Zhang Du.

In the seminar, Dr Ieong Meikei, shared with students and faculty members the importance of building Macau as a smart city and the roles of technology in realising the vision. He introduced how ASTRI’s technologies, such as V2X communication, indoor and outdoor navigation system, smart parking, video analytics, big data analytics and facial recognition technology, can contribute to the success of smart city and smart tourism. Meanwhile, Dr Yu shared how we can leverage the big data analytics technologies to correlate the information across multiple departments/systems to analyse Hong Kong traffic status, the weather impact to traffic as well as real-time prediction of traffic status in the coming hour, thereby relieving traffic congestion and facilitating citizens’ route planning.

Dr Ieong Meikei’s Biography:

Dr Ieong Meikei joined ASTRI as Chief Technology Officer in January 2016. Before his appointment, he held various leadership positions in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and IBM Research. He holds a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an MBA degree from the MIT Sloan Fellows Program at the MIT School of Management. He has had rich international experience of managing large and complex R&D projects including marketing, commercialisation. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and conference proceedings and more than 80 patents. He has received more than 2,000 citations.

Dr Ieong has received many awards over his career such as IBM Master Inventor Award, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and IBM Corporate Award. He is an IEEE Fellow in recognition of his leadership and contributions to Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor(CMOS) Device Technology.

Dr. Tao Yu ‘s Biography:

Dr. Tao Yu is currently the director of big data analytics team in Hong Kong Applied Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI). Her team is working on various big data solutions for different domains including financial, government, industry manufacturing and etc. She is also the member of Hong Kong/Guangdong ICT Expert Committee. Dr. Tao Yu has more than 10 years' research and development experience in Service Oriented Computing, distributed system, Cloud computing and data analytics. She earned her PhD degree from University of California, Irvine in 2006 and has published more than 20 papers in International conferences and journals. She has worked in HP research lab and IBM research lab for several years before joining ASTRI.

Dr Ieong Meikei in the seminar

Dr Yu Tao in the seminar

20th March 2017