Hong Kong and Shanghai Trip 2019
Shenzhen
I always look forward to visiting Hong Kong and Shanghai. Here are some photos from the trip.
Following my lecture on a Monday, I took the late night flight to Hong Kong. Arrived at 5am and went straight to CTAccel in Shenzhen, founded by two of my ex-students, Haile Yu and Jackson Yeung. Shenzhen is an amazing city which only started being developed in the 1980s. This is the view from CTAccel.
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In the afternoon, Haile, Jackson and myself went to visit Corerain, founded by my collaborators, Prof Wayne Luk of Imperial College, Dr Xinyu Niu and ex-student Dr Kuen Hung Tsoi.
HKU and MoVertical
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The next stop was Hong Kong University (HKU) to visit A/Prof Hayden So. He had arranged an excursion with his colleagues to MoVertical (more information is available on their Facebook page), an urban farm based on stackable containers. It is a laboratory environment for testing ideas in scalable, sustainable farming and we were asked for suggestions to improve automation.
I was there to see if we can help monitor fish behaviour using machine learning.
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Also listened to jazz at Ned Kelly’s Last Stand. I always have an enjoyable time there.
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Fudan University, Shanghai
Next stop was Fudan University. Due to the protests in Hong Kong, there was tight security at the airport.
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I gave a lecture entitled Multipliers for FPGA Machine Learning Applications at the State Key Laboratory of ASIC and System, hosted by Prof Lingli Wang.
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Uncle kindly took us around Shanghai. Here are some street photos.
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