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Post Graduate Teaching Assistant

School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham

Supported UG modules Software Engineering and Professional Practice (SEPP) and Team Project (TP) offered by the School.

co-founder

humanimal.books

Humanimal.books is an experimental bookstore dedicated to human-and-animal. Humanimal hopes to reflect upon different species in the city by re-examining the relationship between human and non-human animal in various media such as children's books and comics, literary works, social issues and theoretical research.

• Supported by C.C. Wu Cultural & Education Foundation Fund

Research Assistant I

Hong Kong Studies programme, University of Hong Kong

Assisted Profesor Stephen Yiu-wai Chu for the project 'A Study of Hong Kong Popular Music Education' by providing both qualitative and quantitative research support.

• Project assisted (selected)
• 'A Study of Hong Kong Popular Music Education', Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme, Project code: 2020.A8.094.20B

Research Assistant

Centre for Popular Culture in the Humanities, The Education University of Hong Kong

Provided research support to members of the Centre. Assisted in the day-to-day running of the Centre, including the organisation of seminars, workshops, and conferences.

• Projects assisted (selected)
• 'Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature', General Research Fund (GRF), Project code: 18605515
• 'One City One Book Hong Kong', The Education University of Hong Kong's Central Reserve
• 'Learning to Read, Learning to See: Using Graphic Novels in the English Language Classroom', Quality Education Fund (QEF), Project code: 2017/1008

MSc Human-Computer Interaction

University College London

• Fully sponsored by the Alistair Harvey Foundation

BSc Computer Science

University of Birmingham

• Fully sponsored by the Alistair Harvey Foundation

Higher Diploma in Software Engineering

Vocational Training Council

• Awarded several scholarships by charitable organisations including the Hongkong Bank Foundation, and the Hong Kong Government

Postgraduate Diploma in Media and Cultural Critique

University of Hong Kong

BA Cultrual Studies

Lingnan University

• Awarded the Young Scholars' Community-Based Research Scheme Scholarship and Sponsorship from the Mainland & International Service-Learning Programme to conduct community-based research in India over the summer, 2015

Alistair Harvey Foundation Scholarship for Masters study

Alistair Harvey Foundation

The Scholarship aims to provide students with financial sponsorship to further study at universities in the United Kingdom (UK). Full scholarships on tuition fees, term-time accommodation expenses, round trip airfares and maintenance fees shall be granted to the awardee.

Alistair Harvey Foundation Scholarship

Alistair Harvey Foundation

The Scholarship aims to provide students with financial sponsorship to further study at universities in the United Kingdom (UK). Full scholarships on tuition fees, term-time accommodation expenses, round trip airfares and maintenance fees shall be granted to the awardee for two academic years.

Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

Microsoft

Learn Student Ambassadors are a global group of campus leaders who are eager to help fellow students, create robust tech communities and develop technical and career skills for the future.

HSBC Vocational Education Scholarship

The Hongkong Bank Foundation

Funded by The Hongkong Bank Foundation, the HSBC Vocational Education Scholarship is set up to recognise students’ remarkable performance in pursuing vocational and professional education and training (VPET).

Mr K S Cheng Memorial Scholarship

Vocation Training Council

The Scholarship is set up to encourage awardees to pursue their dreams by proposing self-set goals and learning objectives. In one year's time, the Scholarship supports awardees to realize their attainable goals and objectives by unleashing their potential and develop themselves into committed, responsible and confident citizens, and tomorrow's leaders throughout the learning process of goal-setting, execution, reflection and peer sharing.

HKSAR Government Scholarship for Outstanding Performance

HKSAR Government

With a view to attracting outstanding local students to advance their studies at home, and meritorious non-local students to pursue higher education opportunities in Hong Kong, the Government established in 2008 the $1 billion HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund (the Fund) to recognize outstanding local and non-local students.

Reaching Out Award, HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund

HKSAR Government

The Reaching Out Award (ROA) aims to support meritorious students enrolled in full-time publicly-funded programmes at sub-degree or above levels to participate in learning, internship or service programmes, as well as national, regional and international events and competitions that are conducted outside Hong Kong and organised/endorsed by institutions.

CulturalHRI: A framework to examine the importance of cultures in Human-Robot Interactions

This CulturalHRI framework is a research-based software engineering project aimed at exploring culturally adaptive human-robot interaction (HRI) within diverse office environments. The project focuses on simulating and studying greeting behaviours of robotic agents in multiethnic workplaces, utilising the ROS4HRI framework and the OfficeBots simulation environment.

• ROS4HRI
• OfficeBots
• Cultural Studies
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Software Engineering
• AI
• Robotics

ELVIS: Elderly Video and Image Sharing Application

An AI-enabled mobile application that allows elderly users to share photos and videos with their family members and friends. The AI engine is able to detect the mood of the elderly users and provide suggestions for activities that may improve their mood. The app also provides a platform for the elderly users to share their life stories with their family members and friends. The app is particularly useful during the COVID-19 pandemic when elderly users are isolated from their family members and friends.

• AI
• Gerontechnology

‘Post service learning’ : civic engagement, social justice and beyond?

2014-2015 2nd cohort of Young Scholars' Community-Based Research Programme

Student Representative

School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham

Secretary

Think Diversity, University of Birmingham

Student Representative nominated by the Academic Director

IT Academic Committee, Vocational Training Council

Student Presenter, ITE-VTC International Student Seminar

Institute of Technical Education, Singapore & Vocational Training Council (VTC), Hong Kong

Innovation & Technology Ambassador

Innovation and Technology Co-creation Centre, Vocational Training Council

Microsoft x VTC Future Skills Ambassador

Microsoft & Vocational Training Council

Student Ambassador

Vocational Training Council