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Mashiat LAMISA [BSc in ISD 2021]

Current employer: Sparkmate Hong Kong

Current job title: Product Engineer

“HKUST has been the most significant point of turn in my personal and professional life given how much it has allowed me to grow as a person and inspired me to turn my entrepreneurial dreams into reality. I not only got to study here but learnt to build things, invent and work with new technology hands-on.

Graduating from ISD has made it possible for me to get my hands on the latest technologies while in university which a lot of people might not have the opportunity to. And that has led me to my dream job of being a maker, a product engineer at Sparkmate. Being a female in STEM was not just encouraged but also celebrated here in HKUST and that has played a core part of building a can-do attitude within me.”

Chi-ying Tsui received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1994.  He then joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is currently a full Professor in the department. He was the Associate Dean of Engineering at HKUST from 2014 to 2018 and was the founding Head of the Division of Integrative Systems and Design. 

Dr. Tsui’s research interests include designing integrated circuits and VLSI architectures for energy-efficient embedded machine learning, low power multimedia and wireless applications, developing power management circuits and techniques for embedded portable devices and ultra-low power systems for implantable devices. He has published more than 250 referred publications and holds 12 US patents on power management, VLSI and multimedia systems. He co-founded Perception Digital, which was a technology company focusing on designing embedded multimedia devices and was listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2009. He also involved in a few start-up companies founded by UST alumni in the area of high-speed IC design, embedded health-care devices and implantable medical devices.  He received the best paper awards from the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems in 1995, IEEE ISCAS in 1999, IEEE/ACM ISLPED in 2007, and IEEE DELTA in 2008, CODES in 2012. He also received the Design Awards in the IEEE ASP-DAC University Design Contest in 2004 and 2006. He is a senior member of IEEE.
 

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ISD Faculty
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Professor
Email
eetsui@ust.hk
Area
AI hardware accelerator
Baseband application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)
Computer architecture ‧ Embedded systems
Energy harvesting ‧ Integrated circuits and systems
Phone
2358 7071
Website
http://eetsui.home.ece.ust.hk/
Location
Rm 5599
Location Custom Link
https://pathadvisor.ust.hk/search/nearest/lift/from/5599
Surname
TSUI

Collaboration on Implementation of Octopus-inspired Manipulation Strategies in Soft Continuum Robot Arms with Artificial Suction Cups

News 13 Feb 2025

Inspired by the octopus, Prof. Rob SCHARFF's team has developed artificial suction cups that can grasp objects and sense their surroundings. The artificial suction cups could enable the implementation of octopus-inspired manipulation strategies in soft continuum robot arms. The research conducted by first author Stein VAN VEGGEL (TU Delft) was a collaboration between HKUST, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), and the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). 

Published in Advanced Intelligent Systems, the paper titled “Optoelectronically Innervated Suction Cup Inspired by the Octopus” introduces a 3D-printed octopus-inspired suction cup with integrated colored markers. Tactile information is collected using an embedded camera that captures the displacement of these markers upon contact between the suction cup and its environment. This information could be employed to accurately estimate the orientation of the suction cup with respect to an object surface. The effectiveness of the approach was demonstrated in a closed-loop control scheme where the suction cup could successfully pick up randomly oriented objects by approaching the object surface perpendicularly.  
 
The work was motivated by the findings from a literature review on artificial suction cups by the same authors published in Advanced Science. In this work, titled “Classification and Evaluation of Octopus-Inspired Suction Cups for Soft Continuum Robots”, the authors identified the lack of high-resolution tactile sensors for artificial suction cups as one of the major hurdles towards the realization of octopus-like dexterous manipulation capabilities in soft continuum robot arms.

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Prof. Yunlong Zi, PhD, FInstP, SMIEEE, FIAAM, is an Associate Professor in Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Guangzhou (HKUST-GZ). Prof. Zi received his Ph.D. in Physics from Purdue University in 2014; his Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2009. Before joining HKUST, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong during 2017-2022, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology during 2014-2017. Prof. Zi is an active scholar in the field of triboelectric nanogenerator for high-performance energy harvesting. He coined the field of tribo-photonics toward the self-powered wireless sensing solutions. He has published over 150 journal publications with total citation of over 16000. Prof. Zi was honored as Fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP) 2023; Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE) 2023; MIT Technological Review 35 Innovators Under 35 Asia & Pacific 2022; Nano Energy Award winner 2021. He was also as Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM) 2021; Vebleo Fellow 2021; the winner of MRS Postdoctoral Award by Materials Research Society in 2017; the Emerging Investigators by Journal of Materials Chemistry C in 2018; MINE Young Investigator Finalist in 2018; and one of “5 students who are transformation makers” as highlighted in Purdue homepage in 2013.

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ISD Faculty
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Associate Professor (Joint Appointment)
Email
ylzi@hkust-gz.edu.cn
Area
High-performance mechanical energy harvesting through triboelectric nanogenerator
Tribo-photonics toward novel self-powered wireless solution
Phone
(86) 20 8833 2960
Website
https://zilabhkust.wordpress.com/
Surname
ZI

Prof. Wenqi Hu holds a Bachelor's degree in Microelectronics and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, focusing on optically-controlled microrobots. After completing his Ph.D., Prof. Hu joined the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) as a Humboldt research fellow and progressed to a senior scientist role in 2019, later becoming the head of the bioinspired autonomous miniature robots group in 2022. His research has contributed to the fields of soft magnetic materials and the control of miniature soft robots, with his work published in respected journals such as Nature and Science Robotics. Dr. Hu's research has garnered over 5,000 citations and received accolades like the ICRA 2012 Best Conference Paper Award Finalist, RSS 2019 Best Paper Award, and the Günter Petzow Prize from the Max Planck Society. Beyond his research, he also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics and participates in various committees for conferences such as Living Machine and MARSS.

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ISD Faculty
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Assistant Professor (Joint Appointment)
Email
wenqi@ust.hk
Area
Miniature Robots
Soft Robots
Surgical Robots
Underwater Robots
Implantable Medical Devices
Multi-material Microfabrication
Phone
3469 3207
Location
Room 2543
Location Preset Link
2543/floor/2/at/normalized/2178,-210,3
Surname
HU

Prof. Mo Li is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Division of Integrative Systems and Design, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST in 2023, he was a Professor at Nanyang Technological University. Prof. Li has been internationally recognized for his research in wireless and mobile computing. Over the past few years, Prof. Li has developed numerous methods, techniques, and systems that resulted in top journal and conference publications that received over 10,000 citations. He has been on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, all leading journals in the field. He also served the technical program committee member for top conferences in computer systems and networking, including ACM MobiCom, MobiSys, SenSys, and others. Prof. Li is a Distinguished Member of the ACM since 2019, and a Fellow of the IEEE since 2020.

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ISD Faculty
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Professor (Joint Appointment)
Email
lim@ust.hk
Area
Networked and distributed sensing
Wireless and mobile computing
Internet of Things (IoT)
Smart city and urban computing
Phone
2358 7017
Website
http://cse.hkust.edu.hk/~lim/
Location
Rm 3534
Location Preset Link
3534/floor/3/at/normalized/1517,-217,3
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LI

Entrepreneurship Minor

Why should I minor in Entrepreneurship?

 

By 2025, 50% of all employees will need reskilling as technology adoption increases

 The Entrepreneurship Minor prepares you for this future by developing:

  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills (top skills for 2025)
  • Creative thinking and innovation capabilities
  • Technological literacy, including AI and big data knowledge
  • Leadership and social influence

These skills are not just for entrepreneurs – they're essential for EVERY career path in the coming decades!

 

Who is the Entrepreneurship minor for?

 

ALL undergraduate students at HKUST with CGA of 2.7 or above are eligible to apply. Whether you're in science, engineering, business, or any other field, this minor is YOUR secret weapon. Here's why:

  • 85 million jobs may be displaced by 2025, but 97 million new roles may emerge

  • 40% of workers will require reskilling of 6 months or less
  • Employers expect 39% of key skills required in the job market to change by 2030

The Entrepreneurship Minor gives you the adaptability and innovation skills to thrive in this changing landscape, regardless of your career goals.

 

I am interested
to Minor in Entrepreneurship
what should I do to satisfy
the Minor requirements?

 

To graduate with a minor in Entrepreneurship, you must have enrolled in the Minor Program and completed a minimum total of 18 credits and all of its requirements, as well as all the requirements of their major program of study. If you were admitted in 2016-17 or after, they are also required to attain an average grade point of at least 2.5 in courses taken within the Minor Program. For credit transfer, you can transfer a maximum total of 6 credits to the Minor Program. Out of the total credits required by the minor program, at least 9 credits should be single-counted within the minor and are not used to fulfill any other requirements for graduation except the 120-credit degree requirement.

You may use no more than 6 credits earned from courses offered in pure online delivery mode to satisfy the graduation requirements of a degree program. This 6-credit limit does not apply to credits obtained through the credit transfer procedures of the University.

 

How and when can I enroll into
the Entrepreneurship Minor?

 

You must declare their intention to enroll in the Minor Program no earlier than the first regular term of their second year of study but no later than the last day of the add/drop period in the first regular term of their final year of study. If you wish to withdraw from the Minor Program you should apply before the last day of the add/drop period in the last regular term of their final year of study.


 

Curriculum requirements

 

For details, please refer to the program curriculum. You may also find the ENTR course outlines here (for reference only). They may be updated/revised by the instructor(s) from time to time.

If you are interested in applying for Student-led Entrepreneurship Acceleration Project (ENTR4901-4), please refer to the guidelines here.

 

Application procedures

 

Interested students please complete the "Declaration/ Withdrawal of Undergraduate Minor Program" (RR-37) and follow the procedures specified on the form. Together with the copy of unofficial transcript, please submit the form to the School of Science (for SSCI student), the School of Engineering (for SENG student) or the School of Business & Management (for SBM student). If you are from other Schools, please submit the form to the School of Science.

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Dr. Hongri (Richard) Gu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2014, during which he also participated in the Young Scientist Exchange Program (YSEP) at Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2012 to 2014. In 2016, he completed his Master’s degree in Micro and Nanosystems at ETH Zurich. From 2017 to 2021, Dr. Gu conducted his doctoral research at the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, under the supervision of Prof. Bradley Nelson. During his Ph.D., he served as an editorial assistant for Science Robotics and the Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, managing submissions in microrobotics, medical robotics, and soft robotics. From 2022 to 2024, he pursued postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz in Germany.


Dr. Gu’s research focuses on developing structured magnetic materials and robotic systems for future disruptive medical technologies, with an emphasis on understanding multi-scale physiological transport and inventing novel medical devices and surgical tools.

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Assistant Professor
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hongrigu@ust.hk
Area
Microrobotics
Structured magnetic materials
Medical robotics
Website
https://guhongri.com/
Location
IAS 2008
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ROOM%202008;G1HHK7CcFkd;IAS2;52,-297/floor/IAS2/at/normalized/1040,367,3
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GU