Professor Kwok, Ka Wai 郭嘉威
Professor Kwok, Ka Wai 郭嘉威
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | B.Eng, Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering |
| 2005 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | M.Phil, Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering |
| 2011 | Imperial College London | PhD, Department of Computing |
Dr. Ka-Wai Kwok is currently Associate Professor and has served in Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), since 2014. Dr. Kwok obtained BEng and MPhil from Department of Automation and Computer-aided Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003 and 2005, respectively. In 2007-2012, he pursued PhD study at Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Department of Computing, Imperial College London in 2012, where he continued research on surgical robotics as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2013, Dr. Kwok was awarded the Croucher Foundation Fellowship, which supported his research jointly supervised by advisors in The University of Georgia, and Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School. His research interests focus on surgical robotics, intra-operative medical image processing, and their uses of high-performance computing techniques. He has involved in various designs of surgical robotic devices and interfaces for endoscopy, laparoscopy, stereotactic and intra-cardiac catheter interventions. To date, Dr. Kwok co-authored with >40 clinical fellows and >80 engineering scientists.
Dr. Kwok’s multidisciplinary work has been recognized by various scientific communities through many international conference/journal paper awards, e.g. the Best Conference Paper Award of 1ICRA 2018, which is the largest conference ranked top in the field of robotics, as well as 2TPEL 2018, 3RCAR 2017, ICRA 2019, ICRA 2017, ICRA 2014, 4IROS 2013 and 5FCCM 2011, 6Hamlyn 2012 and 2008, and Surgical Robot Challenge 2016. He also became the recipient of the Early Career Awards 2015/16 offered by Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. Dr. Kwok also serves as associate editor for IROS 2017-19, ICRA 2019, Frontier in Robotics and AI, and Annals of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Kwok is the principal investigator of Group for Interventional Robotic and Imaging Systems (IRIS) at HKU.
1ICRA – IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2TPEL – IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
3RCAR – IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics
4IROS – IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
5FCCM – IEEE International Symposium on. Field-Programmable Custom Computing
6Hamlyn – Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
DONG, Ziyang Wang, X Ho, JD He, Z FANG, Ge Tang, WL Xie, X Cheung, CL LIANG, Liyuan | 2023-10-18 | Best Technical Experimental Paper 2022-2023 | Research Achievement |
| 2023-04-29 | Silver Medal Special Edition 2023 Inventions Geneva Evaluation | Research Achievement | |
| 2021-06-21 | Finalist, Excellent Project (Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macau) in Integrated Circuits and Internet of Things, Tsinghua University Alumni Sanchuang Entrepreneurial Competition [Award to Agilis Robotics, for our invented robotic system used in endoscopic surgery]: 清華校友三創大賽粵港澳賽區 “南山雲創” (08/06/2021-08/06/2021) | Others | |
WU, Mengjie DAI, Jing LI, Yingqi LIANG, Liyuan Fan, KMJ Xie, X | 2023-06-29 | Best Poster Award (3rd prize) for the poster “Machine Learning-Enabled Real-Time MRI-guided Acoustic Trapping”, in 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA): 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2023) (29/05/2023-02/06/2023, London) | Research Achievement |
FANG, Ge WANG, Kui Ho, JD HE, Zhuoliang CHOW, Chun Kit | HKU Research Output Prize: HKU | Research Achievement | |
| 2014-06-01 | ICRA Best Medical Robotics Paper Award Finalist: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2014 (ICRA’14) | Research Achievement | |
CHEUNG, Chim Lee LEE, Kit Hang Fu, KCD GUO, Ziyan LEONG, Chun Wing Martin DONG, Ziyang | 2016-06-01 | Best Live Demonstration prize – Surgical Robot Challenge 2016: The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), and UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Network.Project topic: MR-conditional Catheter Robot for MRI-guided Cardiac Electrophysiological Intervention. | Research Achievement |
CHEUNG, Chim Lee Fu, KCD LEE, Kit Hang GUO, Ziyan LEONG, Chun Wing Martin DONG, Ziyang | 2017-07-01 | Best Poster Paper Award (Merit prize): the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’17) workshop on Surgical Robots， sponsored by Intuitive Surgical Inc. | Research Achievement |
LEE, Kit Hang Yeung, CK CHOW, Chun Kit LEONG, Chun Wing Martin FU, Hing Choi Fu, KCD | 2017-08-01 | Best Conference Paper Award: the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics | Research Achievement |
GUO, Ziyan LUN, Tian Le Tim | 2018-09-01 | First Place Prize Paper Award: 2017 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics | Research Achievement |
CHEUNG, Chim Lee LEE, Kit Hang He, H GUO, Ziyan HO, Justin Di-lang FU, Hing Choi DONG, Ziyang | 2018-05-01 | Best Conference Paper Award: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2018 (ICRA’18) | Research Achievement |
CHEUNG, Chim Lee He, H LEE, Kit Hang GUO, Ziyan HO, Justin Di-lang FU, Hing Choi DONG, Ziyang | 2018-05-01 | Best Medical Robotics Paper Award Finalist: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2018 (ICRA’18) | Research Achievement |
WANG, Xiaomei Tang, WL HO, Justin Di-lang HE, Zhuoliang DONG, Ziyang | 2019-05-01 | Best Poster Paper Award (2nd place): 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’19) workshop on Surgical Robots, sponsored by Intuitive Surgical Inc. | Research Achievement |
| 2022-01-01 | Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) @HKU – start-up fund ( HK$250,000): Innovation and Technology Commission, via TSSSU | Research Achievement | |
| 2021-01-01 | Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) @HKU – start-up fund (HK$1 Million): Innovation and Technology Commission, via TSSSU | Research Achievement | |
| 2020-01-01 | Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) @HKU - start up fund (HK$390,000): Innovation and Technology Commission, via TSSSU | Research Achievement | |
| 2021-06-01 | Finalist, Excellent Project (Guangdong-Hong Kong- Macau) in Integrated Circuits and Internet of Things: Tsinghua University Alumni Sanchuang Entrepreneurial Competition | Research Achievement | |
| 2021-12-01 | Second Prize in Healthcare (Angel Group): Final Competition, Tsinghua University Alumni Sanchuang Entrepreneurial Competition | Research Achievement | |
| Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) @HKU – start-up fund (HK$1.22 Million): Innovation and Technology Commission via TSSSU Scheme | Research Achievement | ||
| 2022-06-01 | Exemplary Alumni: Carmel Pak U Secondary School | Research Achievement | |
| 2022-05-01 | ABME AE Excellence Award: Annals of Biomedical Engineering (ABME) | Research Achievement | |
| 2020-12-01 | HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2019-20: HKU | Research Achievement | |
| 2021-01-01 | HKU Young Innovator Award 2020: HKU | Research Achievement | |
| 2021-03-01 | Silver Medal: Special Edition 2021 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days | Research Achievement | |
| 2020-11-01 | Actuators 2020 Young Investigator Award: Editorial board of international peer-reviewed journal – Actuators | Research Achievement | |
| 2020-12-01 | IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award: 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) | Research Achievement | |
CHEUNG, Chim Lee HE, Zhuoliang FU, Hing Choi DONG, Ziyang | 2019-06-01 | First Runner-up Award: Robocon 2019 Hong Kong Contest “Great Urtuu” | Teaching Accomplishment |
| 2014-09-01 | Outstanding Alumni Award: Department of Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering | Others | |
| 2015-06-01 | Early Career Award: Research Grants Councils of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2016-06-01 | King’s/HKU Fellowship Awards 2016/17: The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement |
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | Committees – Video Sessions Chair | 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| 01/2019-Present | Member | The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society |
| 2022-Present | Technical Committee | IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Surgical Robotics |
| 09/2021-Present | Member | IEEE EMBS Membership |
| 07/2020-Present | Member | ASME |
| 05/2020-Present | Associate Member | Institution of Mechanical Engineers |
| 07/2017-09/2017 | Program committee | in 2017 IROS Workshop on Soft Morphological Design for Haptic Sensation, Interaction and Display |
| 11/2019 | Organizer | UChicago-HKU Symposium - Innovation of head and neck surgery through collaboration between surgeons and engineers |
| 07/2019-07/2019 | Organizer | IEEE/ASME AIM workshop - Towards Soft Robotics for Biomimetics and Applications: Emerging Sensors, Actuators, and Methods |
| 04/2018-12/2019 | Consultant | Robomed Shenzhen |
| 05/2018-Present | IEEE Senior Member | IEEE Membership |
| 02/2018-01/2019 | Scientific Advisory Committee | Signate Life Sciences (HK) Limited |
| 10/2016-08/2019 | Adjunct Assistant Professor | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| 01/2015-Present | IEEE RAS member | IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Membership |
| 03/2016-12/2017 | External examiner | Department of Engineering, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee) |
| 01/2015-05/2018 | IEEE member | IEEE Membership |
| 02/2015-06/2015 | Organized sessions chair | International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics |
| 08/2017-09/2017 | Panel member | CUHK 3D Echo Course: An Interactive Hands-On Workshop |
| 10/2016-12/2018 | Scientific Assessment Committee | APTORUM Therapeutics Limited |
| 02/2015-02/2017 | Scientific consultant | Bio-Medical Engineering (HK) Limited |
| 03/2017-04/2017 | Organizer | HKU MedE Symposium on Advances in Biomedical Engineering and Robotics |
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