研讨会信息
(AI Thrust & IoT Thrust Joint Seminar)
🎤 Speaker: Prof. Victor OK Li,
Director, AI to Advance Well-being and Society Research Lab
(HKU-AI WiSe),
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
The University of Hong Kong
📰 Title: AI for Social Good: A Case Study of Street-level Air Pollution Estimation and Public Health Management
⏰ Time: 9:00 – 10:00 AM,
📆 Date: Oct. 15, 2025 (Wednesday)
📍 Venue: Room E4-202, GZ Campus
Online Zoom Meeting:
https://hkust-gz-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/98992510465?pwd=J320m1BJjLa5HdkPPQByMtVEYablFm.1
Meeting ID: 989 9251 0465
Passcode: iotai
研讨会概要
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool that has shown great success in various applications, such as medical diagnosis, autonomous vehicles, and chatbots. However, it also poses challenges to society, including bias, unemployment, and privacy infringement. As such, our interdisciplinary international team, led by Prof. Victor OK Li and Dr. Jacqueline CK Lam, has been researching AI technologies and their applications to pressing societal problems, or AI for Social Good (AIfSG), for the past decade. AIfSG is centered on meeting the needs of society, improving the quality of life, reducing biased decision-making, allowing humans to make ethical decisions, and enhancing the public's ability to comprehend AI-generated results for better decision-making. This talk will demonstrate how AI can be used to estimate and forecast air pollution, to help our citizens utilize street-level air pollution information to make informed decisions that benefit their health. This is important as poor air quality has become an increasingly critical challenge for many metropolitan cities, and has devastating consequences on health and quality of life. Moreover, high spatial resolution air pollution data, coupled with corresponding socioeconomic data, also allow us to determine if there is environmental inequality. Overall, AI has the potential to greatly benefit society, but it must be approached with caution and with a focus on social good. Our research aims to harness the power of AI to address pressing societal challenges and make a positive impact on people's lives.
分享者简介
Prof. Victor OK Li,
Director, AI to Advance Well-being and Society Research Lab,
(HKU-AI WiSe),
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
The University of Hong Kong
Victor O.K. Li is Emeritus Professor, Chair Professor of Information Engineering (Sept 1997 – June 2025) and Cheng Yu-Tung Professor in Sustainable Development (March 2017 – June 2023) at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of the University of Hong Kong, and Director of the HKU AI to Advance Well-being and Society Research Lab. He also directs three HKU-Cambridge University collaborative research platforms. He was the Head of EEE, Assoc. Dean (Research) of Engineering at HKU, and Founding Managing Director of HKU Versitech, the technology transfer and commercial arm of HKU. He co-founded and is Chairman of the Board of award-winning Fano, Ltd. (fano.ai), Language AI company. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, AI and Healthcare, Clean Energy and Environment, Big Data, and Optimization Techniques. He received SB, SM, EE and ScD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1981, respectively. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA, and Director of the USC Communication Sciences Institute. He was Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, UK; Tsinghua University, Beijing (Chang Jiang Chair Professor); and National Taiwan University, Taipei. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering, IEEE, and HKIE; a Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellow; and a UK Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Visiting Fellow. For his contributions to Hong Kong, he was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by HKSAR.
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